It was announced today that Intel will buy Mcafee for over $7 billion dollars in cash. There had been rumors that HP was looking to buy Mcafee which would have been interesting to see how they would have combined the Tippingpoint and Mcaffe intrusion prevention systems. At first glance the Intel merger does seem odd until you [...]
Well ISACA was not kidding when they said it takes 6-8 weeks to get the results. I received my email at 4:00pm exactly 8 weeks after taking the exam. The good news is that I passed the exam! I am now beginning the process of verification of my work experience. ISACA says it takes 6-8 weeks for [...]
So I took the CISM exam in June 12th. I have not received the results back yet, it generally takes 6-8 weeks. The test was tough and I thought the practice database from ISACA was a good representation of the type of questions to expect. I do think though [...] Continue Reading…
I have decided to sit for the CISM exam. The exam is scheduled for June 12th. ISACA only offers the exam two times per year so I figured this was the best time to take it. The CISM is growing in popularity and is becoming more common in job [...] Continue Reading…
Full Story »While not related directly to IPS it is still news worthy. Symantec announce today they are buying PGP and GuardianEdge for $370 million dollars! Symantec has somewhat languished over the last few years without alot of truly innovative security products. This now places Symantec as a major player in [...] Continue Reading…
Full Story »Virtualization is a top priority for most organizations today. Security of these virtualized environments should also be a top priority and in the Intrusion Prevention market most vendors are developing or have developed virtual or virtualized solutions. The terms virtual IPS and virtualized IPS have different meanings and I want [...] Continue Reading…
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