June 26, 2009 - Matt blogged earlier about Haworth adopting various and sundry social networking applications. Haworth is a perfect example of an organization that is a bit ahead of the curve – adopting these applications for business reasons, yet managing the inherent (continue reading...) Read more
June 16, 2009 - A recent survey assembled by RSA and IDG on the “hyper-extended enterprise” highlighted the challenges enterprises face as they move at light speed into the new applications landscape and two points stuck out. The first point was that enterprises (continue reading...) Read more
May 29, 2009 - Since we began shipping our firewall, we have heard from a small but vocal contingent that they should be allowed to do what they want at work. We see it in the comments on some of the articles about us (continue reading...) Read more
May 22, 2009 - It is merely the bandwidth being consumed by video (and photo) application usage. A somewhat random factoid posted on TechCrunch.com stated that every minute, 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Think about that. There are 1,440 minutes (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2009 - This TechCrunch article outlines how Hulu Networks, the rapidly growing purveyor of streaming HD content, is taking some fairly extreme steps to make sure that their content is only accessed by users in the US. Apparently anyone with an (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - Here’s an article I found on Lifehacker, a useful, mainstream website. The article points to a step-by-step tutorial on how to circumvent IT’s security controls using FreeProxy. Have a look. Matt talks a little about circumventing applications in this (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2009 - Today’s post will cover several interesting tidbits of data about remote control products. The first tidbit comes from the recently released Verizon Data Breach Report which paints a detailed picture of how cybercrime is making money. The report looked (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2009 - On April 15th, we participated in a very successful webinar with Dark Reading entitled “Why Bad Security Breaches Keep Happening To Good Organizations”. During the back and forth between the two speakers, we took a poll of the attendees, (continue reading...) Read more
April 9, 2009 - A recent Network World Tech Update on enterprise re-perimeterization talks through the technical elements required to restore application visibility and control on enterprise networks. Written by a certain director of product marketing from Palo Alto Networks… Click here to read (continue reading...) Read more
April 3, 2009 - This TechCrunch article highlights three security holes in Google Docs, each of which varies in terms of severity. The most severe, according to the researcher, is an issue where a user whose permission to share/view your document has been (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2009 - Conficker is back in the news as there are reports of new variants popping up. I’m sure that you’ve all heard the news and hype about how many endpoints Conficker has infected, and even more speculation on what the bot (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2009 - The official 2009 NCAA basketball tournament bracket is out and office, friends, and family pools are forming all over the nation. End users everywhere are scoping out what apps and sites they can use to facilitate their need/desire to (continue reading...) Read more
March 2, 2009 - What’s next — the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business world with the most recent example being the (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2009 - Remember the movie Jaws where sheriff Browdy(Roy Schieder) sees the shark and says “We’re gonna need a bigger boat?” Enterprise IT managers might say the same thing when they see move networks or hulu networks on their network – if (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - I am pissed off. I am hurt. I built a big part of the Check Point product and to see what a bunch of jerks have done to that company really hurts. Check out “Check Point Revolutionizes Security (continue reading...) Read more