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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  My Thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow by Jon Oltsik

  IBM and NEC announced this week that the two companies will work together to offer networking solutions based upon SDN and OpenFlow. IBM provides the switches which are integrated with the NEC Programmable Flow Controller. To me, this is bigger than just a press release and some joint marketing programs. Here’s why: 1. IBM and NEC are moving OpenFlow beyond academic labs and cloud computing theory, taking their joint solution to enterprise data centers. Yes, enterprises need to be...

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  Cisco Security Expert

  Cisco ASDM GUI tips and tricks for managing your Cisco ASA by Jamey Heary

  Cisco's Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) is the GUI tool used to manage the Cisco ASA security appliances.  In this blog I'll reveal to you some of my favorite tips, tricks and secrets found inside ASDM.  If you haven't dealt with it before, ASDM is a free configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting management tool that comes with the ASA.  In a nutshell, ASDM will manage all the features of the ASA appliance including FW, IPS and VPN.  Unlike its big brother Cisco...

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  The Cisco Connection

  Fear the tablet: Cisco survey by Jim Duffy

  Fear the personal device at work. Your IT manager does.Almost half of the respondents to a recent Cisco survey said their companies would never authorize employees to bring their own devices to work to access corporate data and applications. Yet more than half - 57% -- said that some employees do so without the blessing of their employer or its IT department.This disconcerting data is from a Cisco commissioned survey of 1,500 IT managers and executives in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and...

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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  Information Security Budgets Will Increase in 2012 by Jon Oltsik

  As part of our annual IT Spending Intentions survey, ESG asks IT professionals about overall spending trends for the coming year.  Like other analyst firms, ESG found that IT budgets will increase in 2012, albeit at a modest rate.When it comes to information security budgets however, growth should be more robust.  More than half (61%) of mid market (i.e. less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) will increase security spending in 2012, and of these,...

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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  Information Security Budgets Will Increase in 2012 by Jon Oltsik

  As part of our annual IT Spending Intentions survey, ESG asks IT professionals about overall spending trends for the coming year.  Like other analyst firms, ESG found that IT budgets will increase in 2012, albeit at a modest rate.When it comes to information security budgets however, growth should be more robust.  More than half (61%) of mid market (i.e. less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) will increase security spending in 2012, and of these,...

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  Cisco Lab Rat

  Prepping for the CCDE Practical by Denise Fishburne

  Ever since I passed my CCDE, I get emails from random people, some I know and some I don't know.  The wording can be different, but the essence of the email is always the same -  "How does one study for the CCDE"?  When I got the first email I sat and stared at it for a while.  I just kept staring at it.   I was hoping and thinking that if I just stared at it long enough a thought or an idea would come to mind.   Nothing.     Just fragments.    ...

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  Cisco Lab Rat

  Making My Amends by Denise Fishburne

  "Uh ... Err ... Hi again. It's me. So ... uh ... how's it going? What have you been up to? Err ... umm ..."Ever had one of those times in your life that you just don't know what to say to a friend? You told them you would do something (call, write, return a call, keep in touch, call more often) but you don’t.  And then time passes.  And you think to yourself… "Man, I have to fix this."  But you don't.  And more time passes.  Now it is just awkward! Yup!  This is me...

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  The Cisco Connection

  Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest by Jim Duffy

  Never one to pass up an opportunity to toot its own horn, Cisco is celebrating a milestone... and not in its traditional stronghold of switching and routing. In just over two years, Cisco has landed over 10,000 customers for its Unified Computing System (UCS) blade server platform, the controversial product that alienated longtime partners HP and IBM.Not bad for a router company that entered the data center server business two years ago amid much skepticism of its chances for success....

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  Core Networking and Security

  The Future of Firewall Policies by Scott Hogg

  The majority of today's firewalls have only IPv4 source and destination address objects in their policies. However, many of our firewalls are IPv6-capable and allow security administrators to configure either IPv4 or IPv6 policies. Over time, maintaining two firewall policies will become burdensome. We will eventually want firewalls that use a consolidated policy that incorporates IPv4 and IPv6 together or firewalls that can be configured easily with objects that have both IPv4 and IPv6...

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  Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

  Information Security Skills Shortage Continues by Jon Oltsik

  Like other analyst firms, ESG conducts research on IT Spending Intentions annually. One of the things we track is IT hiring plans in all areas including IT security. In 2011: • 35% of all mid-market and enterprise organizations planned on hiring security staff • 22% believed they had a “problematic shortage” of security skills at their organizations The situation has not improved at all over the past year. In 2012: • 39% of mid-market and enterprise organizations plan on...

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