While the current OnLive capability is severely limited, this could be the future of the desktop in some environments. The concept of BYOD (bring your own device) is being adopted in an increasing number of large enterprises. Technologies like this could eliminate the need for NAC and instead focus on developing a hardened client that [...]
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Virtual desktop
“Companies like Digital Reasoning, which combine big data know-how with analytics expertise, are hot ticket items right now as government and commercial entities seek to make sense of massive amounts of historical and newly collected data for security and other applications.”
I’ve been noting for years that IT Security was going to be a big data problem. It is clear that some of the most innovative solutions are taking a big data approach as discussed in this series of articles on GigaOm. “As is the case with many security services, Immunet isn’t a Hadoop product as [...]
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big data,
Hadoop
One need only browse the contents of a Shoutcast streaming radio directory to realize that there are thousands of home-brew Internet radio stations catering to just about every musical interest possible. Many of these stations are grassroots entities relying on desktop DJ software to keep the station up and running. Cloud DJ by Wavestreaming is [...]
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DJ,
on-line music,
shoutcast
I made a note to blog about this company when I first read about it on TechCrunch. While BillGuard is a novel idea, I think it represents just the tip of the iceberg on cloud-based (and beyond) fraud prevention and detection. The next level of service in this space (whether delivered by BillGuard or not) [...]
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BillGuard,
Fraud,
machine learning,
transaction integrity
An interesting revelation, but this article makes one failed assumption. Just because Amazon fixed the issue before the research report was released, does not mean that a reasonably resourced attacker hadn’t found it already. It is dangerous to assume that public disclosure = first time discovered. “A new paper has revealed what its authors call [...]
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Cloud,
Cybersecurity
Apple’s cloud strategy has clearly shifted to focusing on the lowest common denominator from a cloud services perspective. With the introduction of iCloud, users lose a tremendous amount of flexibility in how and what critical files are stored in the cloud. Two areas that will impact MobileMe users the most are the loss of iDisk [...]
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Apple,
iCloud,
MobileMe