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 [...] Continue Reading…
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 [...] Continue Reading…
I have a client that is deploying Mcafee Endpoint Encryption, formerly known as Safeboot. The product integrates with Active Directory and the newest version can be managed through the ePO management console. Overall the product has experienced a number of problems. Most of these problems are documented and can [...] Continue Reading…
As a follow up on my previous post on cabling an IPS I have attached an example that I have seen successful.This example is specific to a Mcafee M2750 device and assumes interfaces that are hard set. Note that the actual firewall and LAN switch are using Straight cables [...] Continue Reading…
Full Story »I have added Fortinet Visio Stencils. Fortinet is a company of great interest. The products range from the client security to database security to traditional UTM type devices and even vulnerability management. Originally they focused on small to mid-size companies but they have expanded into much larger enterprises including [...] Continue Reading…
Full Story »I have added Cisco Visio Icons. This includes most of the Cisco products and not just the security related icons. There are several .vss files as well as a PowerPoint document with lots of icons. Enjoy!
Full Story »Sourcefire is hosting a webcast on IPS tuning. I think this is a critical step that is unfortunately overlooked in many organizations. NSS Labs, the world’s leading independent information security research and testing organization. recently put seven leading Network IPS vendors through a rigorous test that included 1,159 validated exploits. [...] Continue Reading…
Full Story »IBM has announced it is dropping the IBM Intenet Security Systems name and all the security divisions will now be under IBM Security Services (I guess they didn’t want to get rid of the ISS acronym) . X-Force will apparently be moved under IBM research and ISS will be [...] Continue Reading…
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