EtherealMind
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25 year Enterprise IT survivor as a network architect/engineer. Now working as advisor/podcaster/writer/analyst. Generally known for strongly curated opinions on the future of data networking and security.
podcast: packetpushers.net blog: EtherealMind.com
My 0.02p, it cost about £6000/yr to do it cheap. Goes up to £10k/yr with a full time mooring in a marina and outsourced services. Boat pricing comes in a spectrum that very roughly looks like this: 3. £20-£40K…
maybe you should pay to go to conferences ?
Delivering this function is very costly, because of stateful inspection you must implement flow sticking which require buffering which then impacts performance ..... and so on and so on. no, doesn't work.
A firewall doesn't prevent compromise. An attacker can always reach your Internet connected system, and attack through the firewall. Firewall is useful for protecting servers that don't have well managed IPTables or…
EAL criteria are so operationally restrictive that useful work is effectively prevented from happening. No one needs worse security, we need better security.
Yep, all IT disciplines have their language. I get the same problem when listening to developers & DevOps spout their lingo.
Heartbleed is far more common on closed crypto software than often. One word: wrong.
Here is my explanation of the East/West & North/South int terms of Data Centre network architecture http://etherealmind.com/layer-2-multipath-east-west-bandwidt...
There are some non-obvious issues: 1. Why not firewall in the operating system and distribute/scale the load evenly ? Centralising the firewall was done when OS provisioning was bad, now we have Puppet/Chef/Ansible,…
Certain corporate companies formed a consortium to prevent encryption to ensure that monetisation of personal information would continue. At the very last stage, the IETF appeared to be hijacked by very large telcos…