We know a firewall protects the network By using Port or protocol filter lists (also known as Access Control Lists) a firewall does protect the network in a minimal manner. But doing IP header filtering is not enough today when there are so many attackers and they can change the port or IP addresses. … Read more
As Washington Post wrote a story about the old Lopht group visit to the Capitol Hill. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/ Do you remember the following historical events? True in 1871 Chicago had 330,000 residents. (from https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/CHICAGO-IN-1871-Great-Fire-of-1871 ) But this is what happened when many things happened simultaneously and overwhelmed the fire department response due to conditions(dry): The area of … Read more
A nice article at Network World about how Milwaukee Tool used the “Cloud” to remake a significant part of the company (product development collaboration). (I like that picture) So we know the Cloud can help with multi-nation or multi-state collaboration efforts. The cloud can help with Application Development (not just tool product development) as well, … Read more
Even a Next Generation Firewall(NGFW) will not save your network if the fundamental architecture is designed to prevent the firewall from working properly. Asaf Cidon Posted the following at informationweekDARKReading: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/why-the-firewall-is-increasingly-irrelevant/a/d-id/1320800 Obviously a firewall protects machines and users that are behind the firewall. So as Asaf rightly points out when the user data is … Read more
Did you Have Anthem Health Insurance? Did you shop at Home Depot? Kmart? Or all the other retailers that were hacked? Did you work on a government project? Then you were affected by the Chinese espionage hack of the OPM (Office Personnel Management) So the “Hackers” have my personal info, … Read more