Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Citrix, Cloud, DataCenter, Virtualization, VMware
Jul 30th, 2012 |
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First VMware buys Nicira, then Oracle buys Xsigo. What an exciting couple weeks it’s been. These major acquisitions are completely mucking with the established order of the networking and security industries. It’s about time.
Network virtualization has been going on for about 8 years, but it’s been mostly behind the scenes and unless you were in a small group of companies, you could have easily missed it until the rise of network virtualization, OpenFlow, and Software Defined Networking in the last couple years.
I have been involved with that small group of companies since the start. Here’s...
Posted by
Tom Kellermann in
Security, Threats
Jul 20th, 2012 |
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In light of the introduction yesterday of the seminal Cyber Security Act and the Presidents OP-Ed in the WSJ: Taking the Cyberthreat Seriously.
It is time we learn a lesson from those learned by the Federal Government in Cybersecurity.
For the last 6 years the United States government has been struggling to determine how nation state and non-state hackers have bypassed perimeter defenses. After the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) it was determined that most government agencies over rely on their perimeter defenses. The gauntlet was thrown down to determine how the offensive tactics...
Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Jul 16th, 2012 |
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The infographic “Looking Beyond the Challenges of Securing Virtual Environments” shows virtualization-specific issues that can introduce threats to the corporate network such as legacy exploits, PoCs (proof-of-concept), and zero-day attacks. Once enterprises slip through security holes, these may potentially damage a brand name/image or worse lead to the loss of company “crown jewels.”
From the threat research team at Trend Micro, here is a most excellent infographic about threats to virtualized environments. I don’t know if it’s more “Tron” or “Death Star” but it’s cool....
Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Ambient Cloud
Jul 11th, 2012 |
2 Comments
New York Times best-selling author David Eagleman just wrote an awesome piece for CNN called Four Ways the Internet could go down.
It is uniquely doomsday-dark, concluding with the idea that we need to build something like a stone monolith with instructions about how to make electricity, computers, and routers. (maybe with Vyatta‘s open source network software code chisled on it?) Here is a thoughtful reply to the CNN article.
The gist of it is that risks are real, but they won’t take the Internet down because the Internet already knows how to “route around” them using tools...
Posted by
Tom Kellermann in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Securing the Cloud
Jul 2nd, 2012 |
3 Comments
Cloud computing, mobile, Advanced Persistent Threats. All are buzz words of the moment in IT and information security circles and yet all are frequently misunderstood and dealt with in silos. It’s become something of a truism to say that the cyber security landscape is constantly morphing. Well, as APTs adapt for the Web 3.0 age, a holistic approach to managing cloud, mobile, cyber and physical security becomes even more fundamental to the success of your information security plans.
Web 3.0 is the next stage of the internet. An internet for the machines where everything with an electric current...
