November 15, 2006 - #157
Good Morning:
Howdy hump day. A rainy Wednesday here in ATL and I can feel the calluses starting to thicken on my fingers as I continue to crank away at writing the book. News has definitely slowed down a bit heading into next week's Thanksgiving festivities here in the US, so I'm stretching a bit for news. I may contract TDI over the next couple of days to reflect the holiday season.
Speaking of news, it seems everyone wants a piece of Symantec. First, Microsoft finally gets a beta out of their Forefront products (here [0]). Early returns are favorable on the products, but clearly they aren't full suites yet. IronPort has also decided they are no longer friendly with the Big Yellow (here [0]). They didn't outright say Brightmail sucks, but even Mr. Magoo could see that if you read the release. So much for their great "partnership." If you didn't see this coming, you should go see Mr. Magoo's opthamologist too.
In blog land, Andy IT Guy vents about his anti-spam gateway going down (here [0]). Remember my friend, you get what you pay for. The Mogull deflates the hype around the IE vs. Firefox anti-phishing performance (here [0]). Yep, they both suck. And I actually have something decent to say about Webroot (here [0]). My contrarian roots are showing big time now.
Have a great day.
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-14forefront.mspx [3]
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here [4]) that the announcement was a big ho-hum and some analysts even panned them for supporting the standard and making that the central point of the new release. I guess I'm in the ho-hum camp because I'm still of the opinion that NAC standards are meaningless. You get guys like Joel Snyder doing interoperability tests and crowing for TNC support (or at least interoperability between the 3 factions - C-NAC, MSFT NAP and TNC), but customers don't care. Well, let me clarify a bit. If you ask customers about interoperability, they say - sure, do that. But no one is not buying the Cisco NAC appliance (or any of the other 3rd party solutions) because they are not interoperable. They just aren't. If Juniper is going to hang their hats on standards, they'll be sorely disappointed as the market gets away from them FAST.
http://www.juniper.net/company/presscenter/pr/2006/pr-061113.html [5]
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http://www.ksr.com/pressrelease.pdf
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http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/358?ref=rss [7]
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061115/0184588.html [8]
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Top Blog Postings
http://andyitguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/poor-tech-support.html
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http://securosis.com/2006/11/14/firefox-2-vs-ie-7-anti-phishing-who-cares-use-multiple-layers/
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http://www.securitycurve.com/blog/archives/000482.html
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http://siblog.mcafee.com/?p=29
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