Jon’s Network

Google Docs aren’t a replacement for MS Word. Eric Schmidt even said so during his keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo. Google Docs enables collaboration says Schmidt. Google has done a great job at that. I now use Google Docs almost daily, but it’s not an environment I would want [...]

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One of the more memorable talks at the Web 2.0 Expo was Alex Stamos of iSEC Partners.

Here it is in a nutshell: There is no browser security model. We are all screwed.

He offered a good introduction to XSS and Cross Site Request Forgery, discussed some attack examples and ended with a security analysis [...]

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In this podcast, you’ll learn that URL filters are inadequate management tools when the goal is the teach kids to use the internet safely and responsibly. First, Nancy Willard, director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use explains that a comprehensive approach to student internet use is necessary. The approach must include [...]

 

 School Internet Safety with Nancy Willard and Ken Brown [39:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Michael Santarcangelo tipped me off to the fact that my first podcast wasn’t working. (Thanks Michael!) I got it fixed by turning off stats collection in Podpress. Guess my .htaccess can’t hang. Sorry about that.

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Oliver Braekow, Webwasher product manager for Secure Computing, was the guest of the first Jon’s Network Podcast.

Oliver explains how, using their SSL scanner module, Webwasher prevents malware from using HTTPS to communicate. It will also prevent users from bypassing traditional web content filters using popular CGI proxies. This is important to keep sensitive [...]

 

 Jon's Network Webwasher Podcast [16:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Can you guess the vendor?

I watched a web demo yesterday. Here are my notes from the strategic portion that demonstrate well how list based solutions are no match for today’s threats. Which vendor gave the presentation?

Problems no outbound inspection no anti-malware protection from live web pages (web 2.0 pages with more user generated content)

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I just read about GratisCard in the Economist. It looks compelling for one main reason. It is anonymous. There is nothing on the card that identifies the owner. This means your personal information won’t be sitting on servers all over the world waiting to be stolen. All customer data are [...]

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I’ll be at the Web 2.0 Expo April 15-18 in San Francisco. Contact me if you want to meet.

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Christopher Hoff opines that content monitoring and protection (CMP) is a feature rather than a market justifying it’s own device in the network. Evidence of the fact can be seen as larger vendors swallow up CMP vendors to add to their feature set. He mentions that Websense acquired Port Authority and McAfee acquired [...]

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Shoulda bought a Mac

Walt Mossberg bought a new Sony Vaio with Windows Vista and spent hours uninstalling “craplets” - those annoying teaser ads and programs that come on PCs. His new toy ended up being quite a hassle uninstalling the teaser programs, configuring the security software and then installing 21 different updates from Sony. [...]

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