At the RSA conference I ran into a Renesys speaker and he introduced himself to me as “we’re the company that broke the Egypt story on the Internet cut”. I asked whether Bahrain would go the same way. He skipped right past the prediction and instead said “It’s not the same right now, not at … Continue reading Libya Internet Link Cut
Three days ago an updated report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) was published with the following conclusion: While it has delayed the Iranian centrifuge program at the Natanz plant in 2010 and contributed to slowing its expansion, it did not stop it or even delay the continued buildup of LEU [low … Continue reading Stuxnet Failed to Stop or Delay LEU
Beth Pariseau at Tech Target echoes some excellent risk concerns regarding virtual firewalls by VMware. She paraphrases much of what was already said by “Scott Drummonds, an EMC Corp. vSpecialist and former VMware technical marketing director”. vShield Manager can introduce a single point of failure A failure can disable the network Network access is required … Continue reading VMware vShield Manager Design and Availability
Avishai Wool’s review of only 80 Check Point and Cisco firewalls from unidentified organizations has prompted him to declare that security is on average still not well managed: My findings show that 75 percent of the most complex firewalls have at least 20 errors in their configurations. For example, I found Microsoft services are allowed … Continue reading Firewall Rule Complexity Studies