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How not to make decisions

In the past week, I had a number of discussions about information securtity and technology in general. With colleagues, we identified few common patterns about decision-making in corporate environments - and those are case studies on how decisions shouldn't...
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Pictures at a VMWare Exhibition

Not really pictures but few notes from recent VMWare Virtualisation Forum - the regional mini-VMWorld. It started with a lot of pictures - trees, water, animals and I think smiling babies.When an event starts with those, expect a lot of marketing dung...
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Zero-knowledge Intrusion: upcoming 2600 article

Soon 2600 will publish my article on practical NIDS avoidance. As soon as it comes out, it will be on my Web site . The magazine is quite an interesting reading - sometimes entertaining, sometimes educating, never boring. I'm glad to contribute.
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Single authority principle

One of the biggest issues in today's IT architectures is overengineering. Excessively complicated solutions are bound to be less reliable and secure. Any other component in a solution is potential point of failure. Well, not necessarily in terms of...
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Measuring efficiency of systems management

Have you ever wondered how efficient your systems management is? Here's some questions that will allow you to create some metrics of that: How many network interfaces are currently connected to your IP network? How many hosts are there, and what OS...
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Network QoS: a losing game

Achieving a reliable quality of service (QoS) mechanism on the networks is a long and unfulfilled dream of network engineers. As circuit-switched networks are becoming a rarity, the concern of bandwidth starvation doesn't go away, and QoS topic is lively...
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