Database benchmarking is hard to do. Any of you who followed the performance testing wars of the early 90’s, or the adoption and abuse of TPC-C and TPC-D, know that the accuracy of database performance testing is a long-standing sore point. With database encryption the same questions of how to measure performance rear their heads. But in this case there are no standards. That’s not to say the issue is not important to customers – it is. You tell a customer encryption will reduce throughput by…
We see a lot of FUD on a daily basis here in the security industry, and it’s rarely worth blogging about. But for whatever reason this one managed to get under my skin.
I have not been blogging much this week, as I have been up to my eyeballs in a couple different research projects. But as with any research effort, I always learn a lot and it alters my perceptions and recommendations on the security subjects I cover. Sometimes the revelations are not revelatory at all, but because I misunderstood the vendor solution (d’oh!), or I was unable to keep pace with the continuous advancements across the 125+ vendors I attempt to track. Regardless, I wanted to share a…
In our last post in this series, we covered the cloud implications of the Share phase of Data Security Cycle. In this post we will move on to the Archive and Destroy phases.
In our last post in this series, we covered the cloud implications of the Use phase of our Data Security Cycle. In this post we will move on to the Share phase. Please remember that we are only covering technologies at a high level in this series on the cycle; we will run a second series on detailed technical implementations of data security in the cloud a little later.
Well, this is interesting: the FCC Chairman announced that they do not believe wireless carriers should be able to block certain types of Internet traffic, according to the AP release a few hours ago. The thrust of the comments seems to be that they want to extend Internet usage rights over the wireless carrier networks.
Thanks to the opportunity to be the Securosis Contributing Analyst, I’m back to blogging here on Securosis even though Rich isn’t off getting bits of his body operated on. I’ve decided to revive an old Identity and Access Management (IDM) research project of mine to kick off my work here at Securosis.
In our last post in this series, we covered the cloud implications of the Store phase of Data Security Cycle (our first post was on the Create phase). In this post we’ll move on to the Use phase. Please remember we are only covering technologies at a high level in this series – we will run a second series on detailed technical implementations of data security in the cloud a little later.
Last week, a friend loaned me his copy of Emergency , by Neil Strauss, and I couldn’t put it down.
It’s a non-fiction book about the author’s slow transformation from wussy city dweller to full-on survival and disaster expert. And I mean full on ; we’re talking everything from normal disaster preparedness, to extensive training in weapons, wilderness and urban survival, developing escape routes from his home to other countries, planting food and fuel caches, and gaining dual citizenship… “just…
In our last post in this series, we covered the cloud implications of the Create phase of the Data Security Cycle. In this post we’re going to move on to the Store phase. Please remember that we are only covering technologies at a high level in this series on the cycle; we will run a second series on detailed technical implementations of data security in the cloud a little later.