The Scorched Earth LAN & A Better Enterprise Security Model
The enterprise LAN is a blasted wasteland of dead and dying technologies. I call for a strategic retreat. It seems to me that endpoints, such as desktops, and the LAN in enterprise networks just aren’t...
View Article12 Tips for Effective IPS Deployment (Goats Optional)
Fresh from a conversation so frustrating that I could have cheerfully punched a goat today, I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and how to effectively deploy it. I...
View ArticleNetwork Visibility for Flexible Security Architectures
Inline security appliances are a fact of modern network security architectures. There are a number of compliance drivers to deliver inline protection for traffic in a number of zones within the...
View Article5 Tips for Escaping Troubleshooting Hell
We’ve all been there: it’s 5am and you’re up to your humerus in a network failure that no amount of coffee and swearing seems to fix. People are hovering on your shoulder, presumably to observe the...
View ArticleNetCitadel and Software Defined Security
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in the security realm, with a number of innovative startups appearing. That’s refreshing because recently most “innovation” in the security space has been...
View ArticleFirewalls: Expensive, Broken Routers
In a previous post on IPS, I made a fairly negative comment on the value that you get from enterprise firewalls in the modern environment. At the time, I said that I was just going leave that comment...
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