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Links List 11.24.08

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:15:36 +0000

The hunt for the nation’s first CTO continues. Although names have been suggested, such as standout nominees include Bruce Schneier, founder of Counterpane and now chief security technology officer at BT; Mark Cuban for his obvious business sense – and in spite of the insider trading indictment – and Carly Fiorina, former controversial CEO of HP, the next question is what policies should this CTO pursue? Visit ObamaCTO.org to view and vote for policies.

SaaS is taking a bite out of the $18 billion IT management market. A new Forrester Research report forecasts SaaS-based IT management accounts will be 10% of the market by 2013. The reason: high level of interest from medium-sized and large enterprises. Forrester also predicts that enterprises with 1,000 or more employees will account for 50% of SaaS installations in 2009. We’ve seen this on the service desk side with the rapid growth of upstart Service-now.com. Companies are looking for easier and rapid deployment, lower upfront and capital costs and rapid time to value – all benefits of SaaS as well as our own appliance model.

IBM snapped up Transitive this week. Their QuickTransit software dynamically translates native code between architectures, enabling apps compiled for one processor to be run on another without any modification. Apple was the first licensee and used it to build Rosetta, a translation system that allowed users of Intel Macs to seamlessly run legacy PowerPC apps. IBM plans to use the technology to move workloads onto IBM systems without recompiling, allowing customers to “save on energy costs due to hardware consolidation and reduced TCO.”

At CA World, CA announced a partnership with Amazon to provide “management capabilities around Amazon’s EC2 utility computing platform, potentially including discovery of software running on EC2 instances, performance monitoring, configuration management, software deployment capabilities and provisioning”. John Willis, in spite of some pretty funny potshots and stories about CA (don’t we all have them), writes that “CA is the first of the Big Four to take the cloud serious”.

Army Contractor Charged With Murder

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:29:00 +0000

A member of the Army's controversial combat anthropology program is accused of second-degree murder for killing Kandahar native Abdul Salam in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot the Afghani villager in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala's Human Terrain Team co-workers on fire.

Windows 7 UAC changes just 'lipstick,' argues vendor

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Microsoft's plans to change the controversial User Account Control security feature in Windows 7 represent only cosmetic changes, a developer of enterprise rights management tools said today.

Pain Ray Test Subjects Exposed to 'Unconscionable Risks'

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Last fall, Danger Room's Sharon Weinberger agreed to be a guinea pig in a demonstration of the Pentagon's controversial "pain ray." She was told the weapon was safe. But newly-obtained information shows that the pain ray's operators were dangerously undertrained -- exposing test subjects "to unconscionable risks."

New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:50:02 +0000

An appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies.

New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:50:02 +0000

Army Anthropologist's Controversial Culture Clash

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Seven years ago, Montgomery McFate was an unemployed, directionless academic. Today, she helps lead the Army's controversial program to embed social scientists into combat units. And the guilt is killing her.

Controversial ISP Intercage now back online

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Pressure from computer security researchers may have knocked ISP (Internet service provider) Intercage offline, but not for long.

Hackers hit Large Hadron Collider Web site

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0000

Hackers this week defaced one of the Web sites of the Large Hadron Collider, but the controversial project's network suffered no permanent damage, a spokesman for CERN said today.

Monthly Blog Round-Up - August 2008

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:22:00 +0000

I saw this idea of a monthly blog round-up and I liked it. In general, blogs are a bit "stateless" and a lot of good content gets lost since many people, sadly, only pay attention to what they see today. This is an attempt to remind people of useful content!

So, here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts and topics.

In a bizarre twist of fate (maybe driven by my latest poll), the "Top 11 Reasons to Secure and Protect Your Logs" came up as #1 most popular post in August. The analysis of said log security poll is coming up tomorrow. BTW, see my other logging polls: poll #8 that covered context data for log analysis is analyzed here and a controversial Windows Log Collection Poll (which is a poll #7) and poll #6 about logs that people actually review and poll #5 about logging challenges.
Next up is my post "Log Management - Day 1," which talks about the very first thing you do when embarking on a journey to log management.
Still burning hot is a post with my irreverent comments on a Terry Childs saga. Namely, "On Doomsaying (Terry Childs case)", "So ... Am I? Maybe I Am!" and "Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!""
Somewhat predictably, PCI compliance is all the rage again with 1.2 coming out soon. So, MUST-DO Logging for PCI? post was again propelled to a place in my monthly Top5 list. It discusses the fact that there is no "easy list" of what you MUST do to comply.
Finally, my post "11 Signs That Your SIEM Is A Dog or "Raffy, You Killed SIM!"". It is both humorous and sadly true (and backed up by other sources)

See you in September, when .... ah, come on! I will tell you later :-)

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