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Apr 25 2007
Website Rework Print E-mail
Written by Paul Winkeler   
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
After four years of service we are retiring our Movable Type based site in favor of a more dynamic design. Switching to Joomla! provides the engine to allow us to add customized data access to our growing customer-base including such features as site documentation and case management.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 April 2007 )
 
Apr 25 2007
Federal Security Progress? Print E-mail
Written by Paul Winkeler   
Wednesday, 25 April 2007

It has been 4 years since I last looked at the grades the Federal Government assigned itself for its security efforts. Since then the original 2003 report has disappeared but a PDF with the 2007 grades at least references all grades since 2003 or so. The news is not much better unfortunately with especially depressing results for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. How these grades are computed is still a black box so maybe, just maybe, these departments hold themselves to a higher standard? Once can only hope!

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 April 2007 )
 
Nov 28 2006
Virtualization Hits the Big Time Print E-mail
Written by Paul Winkeler   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Network World ran a story about some of the smoke and mirrors application vendors are using to make it appear they're contributing something useful to the virtualization trend. As you can read in this article, no applications are truly virtualization aware (yet).
 
Oct 03 2006
Virtualization As a Means To Build Affordable Disaster Recovery Solutions Print E-mail
Written by Paul Winkeler   
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
Back in August of 2006, I was interviewed by a reporter from TechTarget about the topic of using virtualization technologies as part of a disaster recovery solution. You can read the full article here: IT Consultant recommends virtualization for disaster recovery.
 
Apr 16 2006
Movie Plot Contest Print E-mail
Written by Paul Winkeler   
Sunday, 16 April 2006

One of the most respected names in the Information Security Field, Bruce Schneier of CounterPane fame has long complained how our elected officials seem unable to take a systematic, rational approach to developing counter measures to realistic threats. After all, this would require performing a thorough risk assessment and impact study which would highlight government incompetence. So instead, high-flying scenarios are conjured up and impressive measures are proposed. (Read: this is a great way to generate free publicity and create some memorable campaign rhetoric.)

But wouldn't you know it? Just like the old joke about the perfect way to eliminate the mafia is to let the government run the crime syndicate, the scenarios typically cooked up are farfetched but by no means as grand as they could be.
Enter Bruce Schneier's contest. Enter your movie plot threat given his guidelines and become eligible to win a copy of Bruce's book "Beyond Fear" which is an excellent read anyway. And should you win and should your movie plot be made into a movie, please remember where you read about it!

Last Updated ( Monday, 26 November 2007 )
 
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