November 3, 2006 - #149
Good Morning:
Today I'm inspired. People overcome great hardships every day and a lot of other people decide they are going to thrown in the towel and accept the path they are on. Ultimately, those kinds of decisions are very personal, but I greatly admire those that can face the reality of their situation, make a decision that they are going to overcome it, and fight like hell every day to make that a reality. Yes, Josh Blue was really funny last night. But seeing him in person gave me a much better appreciation of what he has done and the challenges he deals with every day. It also reminds me how lucky I am.
Let's talk about moving pieces. The wonderful thing about consolidation and partnerships is that it makes for a constantly evolving map. I loved playing Stratego when I was a kid and also Risk. Sure, part of it was world domination, but it also highlighted the importance of strategy and covering your flanks. So Red Hat is under siege. First Oracle introduces a competitive offering for 50% of the price, and now Microsoft/Novell buddy up (here [0]) to offer patent protection for those using Novell's flavor of Linux. And Oracle buys Stellent, which is in the content management space, but now makes Oracle vs. EMC and IBM a much deeper battle. But this is a lot of the constant noise we hear in the industry every single day.
But, what's a customer to do? You need a strategy (here [0]) and you need to overcome your challenges and you need to fight like hell every day to make that strategy into a reality. There will always be a lot of moving pieces, so stay focused on the prize. And the prize is defined in your security strategy document. In blog-land, I need to break up the little fight between Shimel and Ross Brown (here [0]) and make the point that security research does not equal elitism. Finally, Ed Moyle points out the super-heated air coming out of the AV vendors (here [0]) about a college professor's curriculum. Again, maybe they should focus more on figuring out how to work with PatchGuard and less on stupid stuff that has not bearing on their business.
Have a great day.
Technorati: Information Security [1]
Top Security News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061103/tc_nm/microsoft_novell_ballmer_dc_3 [2]
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http://www.csoonline.com/read/070105/fivesteps.html [3]
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here [3]), but encryption is everywhere, and nowhere. Maybe it's there. Do you know? Do you care? I think that's the point, besides this article - which provides a decent overview on the different aspects of the "encryption" market - encryption still means too many things to too many people. So we need to start seeing some subsets of the "encryption" business and it needs to continue to be more transparent. SSL is everywhere because the users don't know it's there. Users (and consumers) don't want smart cards, they don't care about certificates - they just want to be secure. Encryption is a key (no pun intended) part of that, but the users don't want to know about it.
http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?articleId=193402715
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1220543,00.html [5]
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2049960,00.asp [6]
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Top Blog Postings
http://www.realtime-itcompliance.com/privacy_and_compliance/2006/11/encryptionjust_do_it.htm
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http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/defending_the_s.html
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http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/ashimmy/2006/11/security_for_th.html
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http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000475.html
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