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Good Morning: Let's play a little game this morning. Remember back to when you were akid and the technology that you had at your disposal. I was inelementary school in the mid 70's. telecommunicate TV was the shiny new thing ifyou could call those brown boxes shiny. We had the dual box set up,with the "remote" (really a channel selector) being a box wired to the2nd box (which plugged into the TV) with a 15 foot heap. I must havetripped over that friggin' heap 50 times. Ah the memories. There were no cell phones. There was no Internet. And the "computer"was the little Timex Sinclair. I did have an Atari game console to playPitfall and Frogger. Times were a lot simpler then. Why do I bring thisup? I guess I'm getting a little nostalgic because every so often Idiscover new technology that within a month or so. I won't know how Ilived without. desire my cell phone a few years ago. It's seriously aggravating now tonot be able to get in comprehend with the impress whenever I be to. When Iwas a latchkey kid. I'd be outside playing with my brother and we'dnever comprehend the phone. I'm sure my Mom never knew where we were when shewas working and it probably made her crazy. Today's kids are attachedto their phones. Texting everyone but more importantly - we as parentsknow where the kids are. The world is also a lot more dangerous now sothis is real progress. Yes there is a point to all this yearning for the simpler days/times. Since I'm too cheap to buy a new car with a navigation system. I boughtone of those portable GPS toys because the impress drives my car from timeto time and let's say in my family I got 150% of the sense ofdirection. I figured the $270 I spent on the system will be payingdividends for years as I don't have to act the "I'm lost back up me"calls. It didn't become to me that I could take the portable GPS with me onbusiness trips. Until Monday. So I put this thing on the windshield ofthe rental car andmiraculously it gets me to my destination. No fuss no disarrange. I had alittle time before my pip on Monday night so I figured I grab a cupof coffee. Do a little search on my portable nav for "Starbucks" andwithin 7 minutes I'm enjoying my Mocha lash light (a guy's got to watchhis weight you know). I needed to alter up the tank before I returnedthe rental car. My little friend has these cute gas icons alter on themap so I know exactly where to go. Will I be late for my meetings? The nav tells me when I should arriveat my destination so I can call to let them know where I am. Havingthat kind of information made the move far more enjoyable. No morechicken scratch on little note cards after spending 30 minutes onGoogle Maps to figure out the best path to the 3-4 meetings I do on atravel day. The portable nav ordain quickly just change state a part of how Itravel. I'm sure my kids will express emotion at me in 10 years when I tell themthe stories of getting around before there was GPS built into everycell telecommunicate and available on little systems you impel in your bag.
Unifiedcommunications is the next battle frontSo what? -One of my initial Incites approve in early 2006 was called "Battle of theTitans" and it had to do with Cisco and Microsoft battling for controlof thearchitecture that we'll build systems on. Cisco comes at things fromthe network side and Microsoft from the desktop. This is happening andthe next battlefront will be this idea of "unified communications." in typical Microsoftfashion. Big shindig a little Clapton. account G on re-create and a couplehundred lemmings announcing new products built on the OfficeCommunications Server platform. Cisco has been investing in this stuffas come up. Chambers did his "collaboration" amaze speeches at all the bigshows earlier this year they bought WebEx and voice and video isclearly an area of cerebrate within their emerging technology assort. Interestingly enough both are paying lip service to security as a"feature" of their communications platforms. That's alter you can'ttalk about collaboration without the concept of protecting the databaked alter in. Are they there yet? Of course not but they both aresaying the right words. Security is a feature.
Don'tforget the switch layerSo what? -Back when I was deploying early client/server apps (yes I'm datingmyself) inevitably a few of the machines would undergo wacky results andnot be able to cerebrate to the applications properly. More often thatnot it was either a physical layer air or some kind of networkingstack/protocol problem. Those were the fun days when troubleshootingwas kind of trial and error. We act for granted everything runningover IP nowadays but it wasn't that desire ago where the user had toreboot their system every time they wanted to overlap files (whichrequired IPX) or access the Lotus Notes applications (which requiredNetBEUI) is kind of theequivalent of those old troubleshooting techniques. Many of us are sofocused on higher level application attacks we kind of forget to makesure the switches aren't exposed. There is good list of switch attackshere (desire targeting SNMP) and also how to prevent the issues. It'salways good to inform ourselves that if the foundation isn't secure,you may as come up build it on quicksand.
Is time not money?So what? -The folks over at the I'm not sure if that's what the session was actually called (and it waspresented by ATL dwell Adam Hils) but there were some interestingpoints. evaluate patch status use free anti-spyware and personalfirewalls limit administrator privileges to administrators and lotsofother good tips. Unfortunately none of these are really free. This isvery much in lie with my process for consumerInternet Security but unless you undergo less than 10 devices to manage,ordain be very resource intensive for businesses. That's why for SMB. Ifavor CHEAP - not remove tools. I want some semblance of policymanagement even if it's simplistic. I don't want to be going around to50 desktops to alter sure they are all patched. Nor do I want to pay my"guy" to come over once a week and check everything out. anticipate I needto add "Security Mike's Guide to SMB Security" to my To-Do list.
Theshape of things to go... Storage and security are brothers in arms. No that doesn't convey thatJohn Thompson is a genius for putting the two functions under oneumbrella but rather now he's got two businesses that are destined tobe features. Maybe not tomorrow but sooner rather than later. Thisanalysis by Steve Duplessie on how the storage business is pretty muchgoing away is thought provoking. And do a little exercise by replacing"storage" with "security" in the piece and see how it reads. Eerilyprescient in my opinion. The big security players be to become"systems" players and carry more value to the table or change to someoneeven bigger that already has that capability. But the idea that therewill be a.
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