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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...expensive from a resource perspective. Imagine having Symantec Personal Firewall/AV on each virtual machine and lets say you have 20 virtual machines in an environment. If all of those host based security tools kick off a virus scan at the same time, don't you think the CPU cycles will spike Once they spike, the CPU resources are not...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...expensive from a resource perspective. Imagine having Symantec Personal Firewall/AV on each virtual machine and lets say you have 20 virtual machines in an environment. If all of those host based security tools kick off a virus scan at the same time, don't you think the CPU cycles will spike Once they spike, the CPU resources are not...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...expensive provisioning of physical devices. I only pay for the storage as long as I need the evidence Eliminate forensic image verification time : Some Cloud Storage implementations expose a cryptographic checksum or hash. For example, Amazon S3 generates an MD5 hash automagically when you store an object. In theory you no longer need to...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...expensive security features you can use. Let's think about this by considering the threat. What threat does account lockout (attempt to) mitigate? Password guessing. How can you make password guessing attacks become useless for an attacker? Two ways: implement lockouts or use good (meaning long) passwords Consider the first choice, account...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Goldman Sachs Downgrades TIBCO (TIBX) to Sell

2008-01-07 14:15:39 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...expensive best-of-breed offerings, like Tibcos products, and more toward buying less expensive good enough substitutes that are bundled with broader solutions from the likes of IBM, Oracle Corp. and SAP AG At the time of this post, TIBCO was down around 5 percent in premarket trading
 
Tags: tibco, vendor tibco software, favorite cep companies, oracle corp, tibcos products, expensive, tibx, broader solutions, substitutes
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...expensive and slow to cheap and fast, the growth of the enterprise market, the phoenix-like in-flight calling/broadband market, and, more recently, cellular and WiMax technology Enterprise coverage was once a central part of Wi-Fi Networking News, but it became clear a few years ago that as equipment was redesigned to be integral to the...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Poor security quality in software. Someone is watching over me.

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2008-07-30 14:51:49 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
...expensive, and protracted engagements; only the relentless survive and have a chance at succeeding (notice no guarantee here). Confronting some of our most complex problems like highway safety, nuclear proliferation, or insecure software is painful, difficult, complicated, and troublesome. Human endeavors of any significance are like this....
 
Tags: software, approach insecure software, insecure software, repeatable software security, secure online environment, environment, secure, secure software, software assurance
 
 
 
 
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Poor Security Quality In Software; Someone Is Watching Over Me

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2008-07-30 14:51:49 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
...expensive, and protracted engagements; only the relentless survive and have a chance at succeeding (notice no guarantee here). Confronting some of our most complex problems like highway safety, nuclear proliferation, or insecure software is painful, difficult, complicated, and troublesome. Human endeavors of any significance are like this....
 
Tags: software, approach insecure software, insecure software, repeatable software security, secure online environment, environment, secure, secure software, software assurance
 
 
 
 
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ScienceLogics 5-Year Anniversary

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2008-08-20 22:39:16 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...expensive installations that still exist with traditional network tools. Every install has unique variations: there are always different server types, varying hardware and software versions, different patches installed, and on and on. Every installation was time consuming and unpredictable. We knew that an appliance model would address all of...
 
Tags: em7 completely flips, em7, network management, network management tools, em7 meta-appliance product, sciencelogic team, team, front, product front-end
 
 
 
 
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Security ROI

2008-09-02 06:05:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security