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Blog I make no secret of the fact that my first interest in security is around the online product side of things. So easy to get completely wrong and the same old lessons are continually being relearnt. I used to take a smug satisfaction in showing developers how easy it could be to find the flaws in the...
OWASP, Web security Blog Software developers make common and avoidable mistakes that create vulnerabilities and expose their software to ever-present security threats, according to field observations by Vic DeMarines. Yesterday I spoke with Vic, VP of products at V.i. Laboratories Inc. (V.i. Labs) in Waltham, Mass. V.i. Lab...
Blog Whos your daddy? -- sang the Zombies in their 1967 hit Time Of The Season. Then came Ray Winstone in Scum in 1979, he was certainly the daddy. Fast forward to 2018 and whos the daddy? Secure AWS-native data protection company Cloud Daddy thinks it could have the answer. Available on the A...
Blog Seven years ago, Microsoft was a byword for buggy software. Its codebase was a notorious happy hunting ground for delinquent virus writers. The "Summer of Worms" in 2003, when the Blaster, Welchia and Sobig malware wreaked havoc, turning computer viruses into kitchen table conversation topics, is n...
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Blog There were more than 600 exhibitors in April at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco. The attendance was almost touching 50,000. There are some very prominent key cybersecurity concerns that will keep IT managers on toes for next couple of years, at least. Those in the Asia Pacific and Japan ...
Cyber security, Encryption, enterprise cyber security Answer I have been able to use OleDB to connect to Oracle databases with no problem in Windows forms applications on my development machine that is both my IIS server and Oracle server. But when I try to do it in a Web application I get the error message 'Oracle client and networking components not found'...
Blog After this morning's news of the Red Hat Fedora 16 operating system and its relevance and applicability to cloud computing and virtualisation, further news in this zone appears to have surfaced.Notwithstanding Fedora's perhaps more modest mention of its cloud relevance, Oracle has this afternoon fol...
Blog There are several reasons PKI has failed, says Peter Tippett, head of the industry solutions and security practice at Verizon Business. The main reason organisation do not use PKI, he told attendees of RSA Conference 2011, is that it costs too much. Speaking on a debate on the importance of identi...
Blog Join IT Knowledge Exchange and Microsoft for these Upcoming Live Expert Chats Todays workforce faces a constantly evolving landscape of threats to information and infrastructureand even to regulatory compliance. Endpoints are exposed to attacks both inside and outside the corporate firewall, r...
Blog I ran into a problem with our Sharepoint 2010 site not allowing pdf files directly it would only prompt you to save it. I found the fix was pretty simple and that was to do the following. Just be aware you are opening up the security on the sites with the files. 1.Verified Adobe Reader opti...
Blog Steady adoption of the internet of things continues to dramatically influence industrial architectures. Organizations can now gather and draw insight from a greater volume and variety of data across more diverse sets of applications. And as the movement of information between disparate hardware and ...
Blog Traditional antivirus vendors are doing a good job detecting and blocking known mobile malware, according to Av-Test, a Germany-based independent service provider that tests antivirus and antimalware software. The firm tested the detection capabilities of a variety of available Android mobile secur...
Blog Application-based implementation audits assess any or all parts of the deployment process of a project. The IT auditor should assess relevant SDLC stages, as they are occurring, to highlight risks or issues and provide necessary risk mitigation recommendations to the appropriate management. ...
Blog Application Compatibility Update with Quest ChangeBASE Executive Summary With this March Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a set of 6 updates; 1 with the rating of Critical, 4 with the rating of Important and 1 with that of Moderate. This is a relatively small update from Microsoft, and the ...
critical, DirectWrite, Domain Name System Blog Almost three out of five CIOs we speak with today tell us that technology providers often seem to be pushing software defined networks (SDN) simply to sell hardware, writes Verizon's Peter Konings, and they just dont need more hardware. Lets be clear: SDN isnt a box. It is about enabling b...
Blog If you're like me, you've probably heard a lot of hype surrounding application containers being used in the data centers of today's organizations. What I've found is that there are some important issues and pain points app managers need to be aware of if they are serious about leveraging this techno...
Application containerization, Container Blog Back in 2013, I was introduced to a young kid that was the CTO of a startup called CoreOS. His name was Brandon Phillips and he told us that he was building a new type of Linux that had a very small footprint, was focused on containers, and was automatically updated for security. The founders at Cor...
CoreOS, Immutable infrastructure, Lambda Blog We security wonks always seem to be put into a position of having to say "no." That makes us unpopular with the I'm-not-hurting-anything crowd who insist on checking their webmail, IMing their friends, and running assorted and sundry downloaded and web-based applications (but only on their time, of ...
Answer I have been asked to secure a completely open system to the users for SOX and just good security practice. I have created a program to call the menu command with a profile with *ALLOBJ authority and specified *OWNER to adopt authority so we can take *ALLOBJ away from users so they only have the acce...
Blog Oracle today announced that customers can license Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in a cloud computing environment. The first products will be available for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment. Customers can als...