Posted on December 8, 2009 by varidion
One of the biggest information security news items over the past Year is the leaking of confidential or sensitive data by specific applications. Ironically, the applications that facilitated these breaches were specifically forbidden, but because these programs masquerade as valid applications or hide within SSL encryption, traditional network security and IPS appliances are oblivious to [...]
Filed under: Managed Security, social enterprise | Tagged: Application Security, Firewall, social enterprise, web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 5, 2009 by varidion
An alarming trend has been indentified by our Partner, Palo Alto Networks, in their Applications Usage and Risks Report: browser based file sharing has overtaken the use of client specific Peer 2 Peer applications for the first time.
So what?
Well its simple, if today you detect and remove the use of file-sharing software within your business [...]
Filed under: social enterprise | Tagged: Application Security, linkedIn, P2P, SaaS, social enterprise, web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 9, 2009 by varidion
Last week I was discussing the merits of a Cloud based infrastructure with a prospect and he jokingly asked me for a “Long Term Weather Forecast”, I thought it was a joke but it soon became apparent that some insight into the coming Years would help them choose their wardrobe for the coming seasons. So [...]
Filed under: Application Enabled Networks, Cloud Networking, SaaS | Tagged: Application Security, Cloud Networking, Data Centre, Ethernet, Virtualisation | 2 Comments »