Jon’s Network

UPDATE: I had embedded a video of an amazing demo of a Perceptive Pixel Touch Screen, but it auto-played and became quite annoying.  Take a gander (you’ll have to watch a short ad first) and imagine this on your wall at home or your computer monitor.  I wonder if they plan to use soft-keyboards with [...]

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Interesting post by Alan Shimel of Stillsecure.  I guess Lockdown Networks marketing guy said at RSA how great Lockdown is because it is a purpose-built NAC appliance and Alan called him on it, as did Mitchell Ashley, saying that Lockdown was originally a vulnerability scanner.  My own experience with Lockdown from a reseller’s perspective confirms [...]

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Matt Hines of eWeek did a good write-up on Sophos  yesterday.  It’s good to see Sophos get this kind of attention.

"Sophos claims to have increased its business in North America by 50 percent during its fiscal 2006, which will end in March 2007, and company officials say that almost 100 percent of those deals involved the replacement [...]

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Plain-jane URL filters are no longer suitable as tools to enforce network acceptable use policies. (Were they ever?)  They are based on a list, and no matter how many college kids the web filtering companies pay to categorize all the sites on the internet, those lists will always be incomplete.  Using web proxies, end-users can [...]

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Many IT departments are concerned about end-user use of SSL web proxies to bypass their URL filters.  Most filters can’t see inside the SSL session, so they ignore it.  This renders the filter and the company policy completely useless.  You need a way to control use of these proxies to even think that you can [...]

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Here is how Packeteer can be used to control traffic through third-party proxies.

Suppose some of your employees have installed web proxy tools (such as proxifier, proxster, and proxyshare) that allow them to send traffic (such as KaZaA, Morpheus, and ICQ) through an HTTP tunnel. Since HTTP traffic (port 80) can get through the firewall, [...]

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