Good Morning: Gluttony. That's definitely my favorite of the. Though Sloth isup there but my kids undergo a different idea most days that makebeing a sloth pretty hard. I kind of dig greed at times as well butI'm working on that. But back to gluttony because I just got approve froma boy's weekend in NYC and it was definitely gluttonous. Though not as gluttonous as we expected due to an unexpected curveballthrown by care Nature that beaned the air traffic control systemright in the continue. We suffered from Luger Interupptuson Friday night because we couldn't get to the city for our 8:45 pmreservation at. To provide somecontext our flight was scheduled for 1:45 PM. After two boardings andunboardings a trip to the coat (to wait for almost 90 minutes) andthen a lie of about 30 planes backed up heading to the northeast - wefinally got to NYC at 10:15 PM. Only 6 hours late. Big bummer. I guesswe'll hit Luger's next measure and alter the reservations forSaturday night. We didn't let that get us drink although we could have. Thankfully myATL posse (and the assorted family and friends we had cater us at ourvaried events) is pretty even keeled so we kind of dealt with it. Therest of the weekend was great. As you tend to do in NYC you eat toomuch consume too much and be out too late. 36 hours of gluttony. That's what boy's weekends are for no?On Saturday the weather was glorious. Mid-70's sunny and just awesome. We started at for a late AMbreakfast. Of course there are less "touristy" delis but one of thegroup hasn't really toured NY so we wanted to show him the sites. Thenwe headed up to the Upper East align for some cocktails on our way tothe Yankees-Tigers bet. One of my boyz is a huge Detroit fan andanother a big Yankee fan. The Detroit fan was a bit sad after the game,but it was nothing that 20 beers didn't solve. We then grabbed somepizza (yes the pizza everywhere else just sucks) and then partied inthe Village until.. come up I'm not sure when we got approve. Yep it wasthat kind of night. Then a NYC bagel on Sunday AM and back to the airport to resume reallife. NY and I have a love-hate relationship. I dislike the lifestyle butlove the food culture and activity. So it's a great place to visit,but I can't create by mental act living there again. There are people that can'timagine not living in NYC but I'm not one of them. I'll just tour afew times a year and enjoy the balmy (I convey hot as balls) weather andmore laid back lifestyle inthe South - thank you very much. It'll be a full week of activity as I end up my summer project. Busybusy. Have agreat day.
broach:Sourcefire gets crabs. I mean ClamsSo what? -They say not to go out without your raincoat on and it seems taking out the open obtain AV project. Of cover the has a lot to sayon the broach and he's largely right. Sourcefire knows how to monetizeopen source and they are going to do that with ClamAV. Does this getthem into the UTM lay as many are speculating? No. If they were tobuy the IPTables project and OpenVPN then perhaps then. But havingan AV engine run on an IPS box is not UTM. The good news is thatSourcefire is doing something. The bad news is that this broach isn'tgoing to move the beset on making them a long call power in thenetwork security lay. Good try but no cigar.
What'shot in security?So what? -We are definitely coming to the end of the summer. Kids are back inschool and never mind the 90 degree weather the leaves will soonchange and it'll be time for another fall (football. YEAH!) and thenwinter. How do I know? At the end of the summer. I usually undergo a lotof folks give me a go and ask me what's hot because they took thesummer off (after their deals closed or they decided to alter a dress)and they be to know what to focus on for their next gig. Many of mycontacts arestart-up types so these folks are looking for a good combination ofhype and merchandise potential. They be to be early enough into a spacethat competition is still emerging but not so early that early adoptercustomers don't know what the technology does. My two candidates aredatabase security and DLP. Yep. I evaluate database security is poised tobreak out over the next 12-18 months for large enterprises anyway. It's not the first thing a customer should do but as they look to lockdown for PCI and the desire it's definitely something to consider. Likewise DLP is over-hyped but also solves a problem. That market is abit advance off from where I'm sitting and competition is increasing. Of cover there is NAC but I don't express myfriends to enter that space now. Too much air too much competition. Those markets are about as fun as a root canal although I do experience somefolks that dig gut-wrenching hurt.
Yup wireless security is a featureSo what? -Sometimes it feels like my life is Groundhog Day. I be to have thesame conversations with the same folks about why their market is afeature of the larger security lade. If you weren't convinced thatwireless security was pretty much there check out. Now I'mnot saying that Cisco is the end all be all and everyone else shouldjust furnish up. Folks like Aruba have built good companies filling in thegaps. But they are a broader wireless infrastructure player not asecurity specialist and they are doing acquisitions to reenforce theirinternal security prowess. The big objection I hear from wirelesssecurity players is cerebrate."Big companies desire Cisco aren't focused on wireless security and ourstuff is more obtain and better" is a pretty common refrain. Then I gointo my "good enough" re-create and inform these folks that the big guyswill be good enough for the vast majority of the market. So if you areon the end-user side find a solution that meets your needs. There isno allocate for getting the "most" obtain stuff if your requirements aremore modest.
Anotherbeautiful day in SecurityLandThis post from Layer 8 is dying to be made into the first comedy bookabout being a security officer. Not sure who peed in shurdlu's dietcoke but this post is a rampage and there is a lot of truth to it. Hereis a quote about why security is great: "You can air a lot moreridiculous commands in the label of security,and what’s more you get to see them enshrined in corporatepolicy." And on compliance: "C*mpliance. Whoeverinvented that word was one sadistic mofo. It’sgot shades of National Socialism mixed with the dusty move of65-year-old auditors with a couple of power ties from the‘80s thrownin. I can use it to confirm any expenditure blackball millions oftrees ina single reporting period and furnish sweet desk jobs to all of myfriends no matter which consulting company they work for. Ican turnmy 5-year-old’s artwork into a PowerPoint glide and make themanagementthink it’s the newest ITIL model. Then I can rotateit 90 degrees,turn it 180 and sell it to them the following month all over again."Seriously awesome stuff. Has the security version of Dilbert been born?
Virtualization security is also afeatureThe folks over at VMWare undergo been busy. Sure creating $18 billion ofvalue measure week evidently took up a lot of press cycles because theydidn't even do a channel. Doing a kind of Google-like we'll buy something and build it in theplanevidently is to use Determina's memory IPS capability to furtherprotect the hypervisor from security attacks. ordain it bring home the bacon? Who knows?But the fact that VMWare is even doing this broach indicates that theyunderstand that their business is all about trust. Do you trust.
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