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| | Feedback on The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Anyone remotely interested in identity management should definitely download a copy of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) document. It can be found at this link: http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/.
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:11:50 +0000 |
| | VAST: The Unified Communications Security Testing Suite
VAST is a Linux distribution built on Ubuntu that offers a suit of UC security testing tools for penetration testers and security auditors. This article highlights a couple of the most useful tools, UCSniff and VideoJak both of which will become a welcome addition to your testing arsenal. Read more
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:50:36 +0000 |
| | Ethernet switch leader Cisco challenged in Layer 4-7
The Ethernet switch market grew 35% in the second quarter from last year, and 1% from Q1 to $5.2 billion, according to investment firm UBS. Cisco maintained its dominant share of the Layer 2-3 sector with 72%, while Juniper continued to gain - Cisco's rival now has just under 2% share, up from 1.5% in Q1 and 1.3% a year ago. Read more
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:51:19 +0000 |
| | Cisco ups ante with Silver Spring
Skype will have to wait. Cisco made its second smart grid metering move this week by acquiring Arch Rock, a maker of wireless mesh infrastructure gear for smart grid metering applications. Read more
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:22:05 +0000 |
| | Brocade set to take Cisco, Juniper on in 100G
Brocade is ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in 100G Ethernet. The company later this month will unveil 100G Ethernet routers and modules that it claims will be "industry altering" and its "most significant networking platform development" since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008. Read more
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:45:48 +0000 |
| | The Secret Life of an Analog Voice Port
In my last post I shared with you my vision of using this blog as a forum to provide Cisco certification resources (in the form of videos and practice questions). The idea is that we’ll focus on one exam a month. For September 2010, our exam is CVOICE.The first CVOICE video is now available for your viewing pleasure. This first video discusses the operation and configuration of analog voice ports....
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:10:34 +0000 |
| | VMware vShield: A Good Start, but. . .
You've got to hand it to VMware -- it clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of the ESX environment and is focused on improving the platform. Case in point at this week's VMworld when the company announced the VMware vShield family of security products.
From the early announcement, it seems that vShield is composed of:
* vShield Edge. To enable secure multi-tenancy, vShield Edge...
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:03:02 +0000 |
| | What to Consider After Passing CCNA
If you want to work with Cisco, and you want certs, your opening moves are obvious. Although Cisco positions CCENT as its entry-level certification - the "E" even stands for Entry - the prerequisite cert for all the rest of the Cisco cert world is CCNA. However, once you get that CCNA, the choices are wide and varied. Today we'll take a look at some of the things to consider when reaching this point,...
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:49:06 +0000 |
| | Cisco bug behind small scale Internet outage
Cisco says it has patched a bug in its routers that was behind the outage affecting 1% of the Internet last week. As colleague Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service reported, an experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources disrupted a small percentage of Internet traffic. Read more
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:01:26 +0000 |
| | RSA Security Extends Compliance to Virtualization
In between the cloud rhetoric and virtualization hyperbole at this year's VMworld, I'm starting to see a few significant announcements.
RSA Security made one of these by introducing virtualization intelligence in its Archer compliance suite.
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:26:40 +0000 |
| | Skype under Cisco
What would Cisco do with Skype? The Wall Street Journal offers some thoughts on this in the wake of speculation that Cisco might acquire the Internet voice and video calling company before it goes public. Read more
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:11:17 +0000 |
| | Is it safe to use a SIP trunk as your outbound dialing option?
A recent product security announcement from Cisco and a blog post by Chris Jackson made me feel it may appear that SIP trunking is not secure enough as a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) access method.
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:09:06 +0000 |
| | Cisco Unified Computing System is 75% Networking - Who Knew?
I thought I'd delve into a slightly less controversial subject this week (well, maybe). My technical background lacks significant hosting experience (servers, storage, operating systems, etc). I understand hosting systems and how to design them into networks, but I'm not going to argue the peculiarities of different Intel CPU designs.
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:19:49 +0000 |
| | Cisco Unified Computing System is 75% Networking - Who Knew?
I thought I'd delve into a slightly less controversial subject this week (well, maybe). My technical background lacks significant hosting experience (servers, storage, operating systems, etc). I understand hosting systems and how to design them into networks, but I'm not going to argue the peculiarities of different Intel CPU designs.
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:19:34 +0000 |
| | One Exam per Month
Hey everyone; Kevin Wallace here. I’ve done some guest blogging for Network World off and on during the past few years. Now, I’m back for the long term, and thanks to the folks at Network World for my new blog title “Cisco Cert Prep.” As the name suggests, this blog is going to focus on helping prepare you to become Cisco certified. Read more
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:45:07 +0000 |
| | WSJ Reports Imminent Sale of ArcSight: No kidding?
An industry friend just sent me a story from the Wall Street Journal proclaiming that security management leader ArcSight will be acquired within the next week. The story goes on to say that the likely buyers include Oracle, HP, EMC, IBM, and CA.
Hmm. First of all, anyone familiar with ArcSight was sure this was coming. The company is a leader in a growing market segment, has a great Federal...
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:17:32 +0000 |
| | IPv6 is being deployed but not in the expected places
IPv6 exists for more than 15 years and it is rumored to be deployed extensively in Asia and especially in Japan and China with Africa being the last continent to deploy IPv6. Another place where there should be a lot of deployments is of course in the USA with the US Government IPv6 mandates.
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:52:51 +0000 |
| | London’s calling…Through your voice gateway
Protecting your voice gateway is extremely important for preventing toll fraud and other criminal activities that can be conducted through your VoIP system. This post covers five key areas that can help reduce risks to your voice gateway. Read more
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:18:50 +0000 |
| | Cisco Security Manager Gets a Major Update
Recently, Cisco introduced its 4.0 version of Cisco Security Manager (CSM). CSM is an enterprise class device management solution for managing Cisco security devices like ASA, IPS, IOS devices and VPN gateways. CSM is full of features designed to make life easier for administrators that work with lots of Cisco security devices and want a central management and troubleshooting solution. CSM offers...
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:36:08 +0000 |
| | Making Sense of Intel and McAfee
It's been a few days since Intel's surprising McAfee acquisition announcement. This weekend I took time to read what others were saying about the merger and there seems to be a lot of posturing and confusion out there. Here is a short list of some of the misconceptions:
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Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:01:21 +0000 |