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How to Trust Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is becoming more and more the buzzword of every conference, meeting and article. Yet it is still in it's inception, and there are multitude of issues and problems. Cloud services are springing up like mushrooms after rain, and all the...
IT Risks vs. Information Risks
As an Information Security professional I think it is increasingly important to understand the difference between IT Risk and Information Risks. You should also understand the advantages in enabling business strategies by ensuring that you brand eac...
Information Security and Strategy Carnival - issue #5
For the fifth issue of the Information Security and Strategy Carnival, I am pleased to present the following texts:Dan Cornell over at Denim Group posts a great article on 13 Things a Web Application Attacker Won't Tell You as well as 5 More Things...
Evaluation of Security Information Event Management Systems
Evaluating Security Information Event Management (SIEM) solutions come in a lot of different flavours. The industry is not yet mature, and the competitors are pushing their own solutions, based on their background and capabilities. In general, they w...
Evaluation of Security Information Event Management Systems
Evaluating Security Information Event Management (SIEM) solutions come in a lot of different flavours. The industry is not yet mature, and the competitors are pushing their own solutions, based on their background and capabilities. In general, they w...
Real Benefit of Security Information Event Management
Security Information Event Management is the echoing buzzword in most industries these days. Banking, Telecommunications, Power and Energy - anyone and everyone is under internal audit and regulator scrutiny to implement a Security Information Event ...
Real Benefit of Security Information Event Management
Security Information Event Management is the echoing buzzword in most industries these days. Banking, Telecommunications, Power and Energy - anyone and everyone is under internal audit and regulator scrutiny to implement a Security Information Event ...
SUN Purchase Analysis
Oracle owns Sun. It moved to acquire the failing giant ahead of IBM and now it has access to a great amount of installed base of Sun servers. But what will Oracle do with a hardware company, and what will remain of it after Larry Ellison is done with...
SUN Purchase Analysis
Oracle owns Sun. It moved to acquire the failing giant ahead of IBM and now it has access to a great amount of installed base of Sun servers. But what will Oracle do with a hardware company, and what will remain of it after Larry Ellison is done with...
Cloud Backup - A gamble on several levels
Online or cloud backup was one of the buzz words of cloud computing, and was actually leading the wave in terms of commercial implementation. Hewlett-Packard had it's Upline service, Yahoo had it's Briefcase, IBackup is going strong. But the market ...
HP partners with Sun - Anybody remember Digital?
Hewlett-Packard and Sun will announce details of “their newly expanded partnership agreement”. Might this be a step towards a merger?The analysts list a number of of mutual benefits for both companies, with two major elementsMajor benefit for Sun...
Choosing a System Integrator - Follow the money
There are several aspect to choosing a good system integrator for your next corporate solution. Evaluators look at:number of expertsreferencesprior workyears in the field price of solutionBut the most overlooked and very important criteria is the fin...
Reduce Risks in Projects with 'Deal Breakers'
Most projects fail due to a manager's ambition or pressure to complete on time. This leads to significant errors.Here are two examples from the opposite sides of the spectrumI have been witness to a very large and very risky project, which was initia...
Paying for Software Support - When to do it?
For a long while, the MySQL Database Server is the choice of start up developers. Since it can be used under the GPL model, it seems free to use it. But is there a point where one would pay for MySQL.Here is an analysis of the conditions under which...
Software vendor relationship - can you make it better?
Your company bought a corporate software solution. Your teams tweaked, modified and tested to get it up to your requirements. Now, you just continue to use it for the next 20-30 years without problems. Right?Well, not quite. The marriage between a co...
High Availability - Clusters have Issues
As IT services become more and more important to the organization, the notion of the a service being down becomes scary. So the organization begins to search for ways to make the IT services more available. The usual solution to high availability is ...
Know the Difference - Backup vs. Archive
Information availability and IT operations require Data Backup. Legal and Compliance requirements dictate Data Archival. But many organizations make the mistake of equalizing Archive with Backup, which can lead to wrong choice of backup or archival m...
Strategic Choice - Proper Selection of Web Hosting
The time of expensive hosting and limited functionalities on web servers are long gone. Today, everyone and their mother is doing web hosting, with a huge hosting disk capacity at very acceptable prices. But even though most hosting providers differ ...
Controlling Firefox Through Active Directory
Firefox is a great browser. But it is being widely avoided by corporations, since it is difficult to manage Firefox through a corporate-wide security policy, like IE through Active Directory.FrontMotion has published FrontMotion Firefox Community Edi...
5 Reasons to Consult Your SysAdmin for New Systems
A lot of organizations isolate system administrators from new system implementations, lead by the premise that their admin teams need to focus on maintenance, and that they may not bring benefit to the implementation, especially when consultants are ...
Essential Management Semantics - Responsible vs Accountable
I've had a discussion at the office about who is responsible for a certain activity. And as expected, the junior colleagues got into a discussion of who is more and who is less responsible for the activity. The Information Technology Infrastructure L...
Cloud Computing - Premature murder of the datacenter
Last week Amazon announced it's new cloud computing service - The Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) . It's a remote storage service, with excellent storage/cost ratio which is even advertised as replacement for large storage systems of the enterpr...
When Will Your Mobile Phone get Hacked?
With the price reduction and the improvement in technology, the mobile devices are the next big communication platform. But also, they are the next big hacker target.The historyStarting with WinCE, Linux and Symbian the trend of "computer-like" mobil...
Where is that XP Install CD?
Today, Christopher Dawson has a post at ZDnet titled Don’t downgrade me to XP!. His take on the Vista subject is that we should bite the bullet and go with Vista, since XP is already 7 years old, so installing it on new equipment and running it for...
Is the Phone Working? - Alternative Telephony SLA
Telephony costs are one of the main targets of cost cutting in many large companies. In this effort, the companies are turning to alternative voice providers, who offer much cheaper calls and more flexible services. But, these new operators are using...
System Management - When do the IT Admins Screw Up?
The main purpose of IT within a company is to provide IT services to the business. This means that the responsibility for availability, response time, and service quality rests mostly on the shoulders of IT admins. In most cases IT personnel understa...
Competition Software Testing - Benefits and Risks
Testing of any solution, especially software is a very slow and painful process, which requires a lot of human resources and proper design of test scenarios. Because of the slowness of the process, something can be missed.So a number of companies org...
Corporate Security - Are the hackers winning?
Recently, i read a discussion claiming that the corporate security is loosing the war to hackers, and quite soon corporate systems will crumble under the attacks. Here is an analysis of security positions of both hackers and corporations.AnalysisI. C...
Business Continuity Analysis - Communication During Power Failure
As the world gets ever more hungry for power, resources are depleting while the climate is changing and large storms become frequent, power outages and massive problems on the grid all over the world will start to rise. While massive power outages wi...
Template - Software Acceptance Testing
Software testing is becoming a very mature area, even has a formal name - Software Quality Assurance (SQA). SQA is part of the software manufacturing process, and nearly all software manufacturers have this process integrated in their production proc...
