Extended Laundry List - July 21, 2008

I'm back....

But I also have a lot of catching up to do, and I'm not going to be able to get through all the news and blog posts that accumlated without comment while I was away. So I figure I'll do a little extended laundry list action today and maybe Wednesday (perhaps even Friday if I'm so motivated) to at least point to the things I found interesting.

The Extended Laundry List

1. Stiennon's sense of timing continues to amaze. Now he's talking about the most important networking trend of 2008 (it's July bro) to be new routers with (wait, wait, wait, wait)... multiple functions. When will IDC coin the URM term (unified routing management). - Stiennon's blog
   
   
2. Most consumer security stuff is downloaded, according to NPD. No surprise there, but the fact that 36% is free (as opposed to 42% being paid) is kind of interesting. Long live AVG and Avast!, slaying the AV cash cow one download at a time. - NPD release
   
   
3. pdp talks a little about Mozilla's Weave and the ability to save passwords in the cloud. Oh crap. "Hack the cloud, get the goodies" is right. Keep your eyes peeled, it's just a matter of time before the trains wreck. - GNUCITIZEN
   
   
4. NAC as a personal firewall? Or NAC capabilities within the agent that runs on my device? Just what we need, more confusion on what NAC does. Thanks Tim. - Tim Greene's NetworkWorld newsletter
   
   
5. Matasano finally ships Playbook (it used to be Clockwork, I think). If you have a bunch of firewalls check it out. - Matasano blog
   
   
6. NexTier introduces yet another DLP appliance, this one evidently tells you what files are important. I wonder how many patents they have on the ESP algorithm. - NetworkWorld coverage
   
   
7. AT&T takes a page out of the Cisco poster boy marketing model and puts Amoroso on a press tour. It's about time, it's not like this is novel stuff. - GCN interview
   
   
8. The king of marketing futures, Microsoft counters the FFX 3 launch by talking about how IE8 will improve security. Malware blocking, smarter filtering, and XSS support, amongst other stuff. Guess they've been perusing the FFX add-ons page. - NetworkWorld coverage
   
   
9. Deal: Since the SafeNet deal was nixed, nCipher gets a big UK defense contractor called Thales to put them out of their misery. That key management stuff is pretty big outside of the military. Uh huh. - NetworkWorld coverage
   
   
10. Deal: NitroSecurity figures they've had enough Mad Dog and they go for some RippleTech. They get log management and some database activity monitoring (and a kick ass hangover) - NitroSecurity release