Cameron Sturdevant

As servers become more densely consolidated, and as the data sets that back-end applications are called on to process continue to swell, IT organizations must seek out strategies for transitioning their direct-to-server connectivity from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Cisco’s newly minted Catalyst 4900M can help network engineers navigate that transition by offering a […]

Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group for the third year in a row sat down and alternately hugged, kissed and politely swatted at each other. This is the second year I’ve attended the RSA session on the future of NAC — which is intentionally not spelled out because the acronym means different things to […]

San Francisco (4/8/2008)–The “Mitigating Virtual Machine Security Vulnerabilities” panel with newcomer Fortisphere, old-timer Configuresoft and nonprofit security adviser the Center for Internet Security was so popular that RSA officials had to turn away hundreds of attendees. I’ll summarize the most important things that system and network managers should consider when securing virtual machines, but first […]

Moderator: Burt Kaliski, Scientist, RSA Laboratories and Director, EMC Innovation Network 10:25 RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA 4/8/2008 Panelists: Whitfield Diffie, Vice President and Fellow Chief Security Officer, Sun Microsystems Martin Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Ronald Rivest, Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Adi Shamir, Professor, Computer Science […]

I asked Adam Bosnian from privileged access management maker Cyber-Ark what sessions he thought would be interesting at RSA. He’s going to the application security sessions. In years past, he’s seen these sessions focus on application coding security tools to look for buffer overflows or other coding errors that could create a security risk. I’ll […]

10 Products (and Processes) That Should Be Put Out to Pasture By Cameron Sturdevant Extended support for Windows 2000 will end in 2010, so, if this operating system is running in your company, it may be time to start putting together an upgrade plan. With advances in Linux server OSes, it- 10 Products (and Processes) […]

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control R4 is a high-powered ecosystem management platform that uses its home field advantage in Oracle shops to provide administrators with top-notch tools for performance monitoring, alerting and reporting, and job and compliance management of the Oracle systems and applications they oversee.Based on my tests, I recommend that administrators consider […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Code Green CI-750 DLP By Cameron Sturdevant eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Code Green CI-750 DLP – Situation Report The summary screen shows a snapshot of recent activity while breaking down matched policies that provide at-a-glance status. The Health Monitor at the lower right refers to the CI-750 appliance that runs on what is […]

Code Green’s CI-750 provides affordable data loss prevention capabilities for SMBs and workgroups, but companies may end up paying a high cost for the savings. Code Green’s DLP appliance now uses algorithms to automatically identify various kinds of documents, including resumes and contracts; integrates with Microsoft Active Directory; and adds new policies to monitor for […]

IBM announced its acquisition of enterprise single-sign-on vendor Encentuate on March 12. Ian Yip has interesting analysis of the deal here. I’ve been following Passlogix and Encentuate for years and I have to agree with Ian on the business analysis. Also what this means for IBM customers who bought ESSO from IBM.

VMware and Citrix XenServer cordially traded shots at the annual N-Square dinner hosted by the Internet Research Group on March 11 at Ming’s Restaurant in Palo Alto. (The “Happy Family” was delicious, and it was a nice place for a group meeting.) IRG (Internet Research Group) principal Peter Christy started off the main event of […]

Ray Sirois, IT manager for water engineering firm Wright-Pierce has a problem with Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2008. Sirois took the unusual step of issuing a press release announcing that his company would stop work on any upgrade plans until performance problems are resolved. The backstory is that in 2004, my former colleague Henry Baltazar wrote a […]