My first experience with Square Credit Card Processing
Over the weekend we participated in a local comic book convention, and always there is some new gadget even at conventions where people might not think that there is going to be high technology.
Master Switch by Tim Wu
Every so often I get a really good advance copy of a book that makes you think about what length companies will go to keep their competitive advantage. Very few if any company will cannibalize a working business model and product in favor of something …
Our one big hope for the future Military Technology
Today the Pentagon said that they needed to move away from Fossil Fuels, and much like the rocketry that allowed us to go to the moon, much like the internet that is disrupting hundreds of business models, the military going green might be the way to p…
Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?
What is not part of the argument online is that I have almost daily offers to sell out my friends contact information for some cool stuff like the chance to win an Ipad, or other such shiny new toy.
Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud
Over the last year I have been working on a project for where I work to see just what the threat level was for systems in the “cloud”.
How to prove you are working when you are working from home
A friend of mine recently got a job in Taiwan and he is fortunate enough to work from home and fly out there for one week a month. The problem is that his boss is worried that he might not be putting in eight hours a day when he is working from home and wants […]
Fat and Bloated is no way to go through life
Google officially announces Chrome OS’s arrival date as this fall, HP purchases Palm and promptly kills off an Ipad like device with Windows as an operating system, and Apple announces that 2 million IPads have sold in 60 days with rumors that the Ipad is killing Netbooks. Fat and Bloated operating systems (regardless of the […]
10 things to think about with Cloud Computing and Forensics
I was recently invited to write the first chapter of an upcoming book about cloud computing and computer/network forensics. While I am excited about being published, and of course you should go buy the book when it comes out Cloud Computing forensics needs to have a wider discussion in the information security field, as there […]
Seven Deadly Sins in Cloud Computing Security
A few days back the Cloud Security Alliance released their paper on the Seven Deadly Sins for Cloud Computing Security. This is a very good guide for security engineers to at least read. The more traditionally minded will ignore it, but those who are working in the cloud space, this gives us something to talk […]
Telecoms unite against Apple
Apple faces the combined ire of 24 of the worlds telecom companies who want to start their own application store so that people that download applications to their phones and make more money off the applications that they are currently trying to support. Apple should buy T-Mobile or some other telecom, much like Google is […]
Facebook Cyber Stalking
I picked up a couple of Facebook stalkers over the last couple of weeks and have been debating how to handle it. Cyber stalking is not a new thing; it has been going on for a very long time and resulted in broken lives, hurt people, and people who retreat back into their non-internet ways. […]
Lessons Learned from Cloud Camp Seattle 2010
Last night I got to attend cloud camp, which is an “unevent” that people can attend to meet up with people who are looking into a particular technology for business. Cloud Camp Seattle was held at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, which provided an awesome environment to discuss cloud computing with 200 of like-minded people. For […]
How HP could give IBM a run for its money in Cloud Computing Security
HP starts offering a unified Cloud and in local data center security package that aims to take on IBM directly. With the deals that HP has been making with Microsoft and using the skills and talents that came along with HP’s acquisition of EDS, this just might end up being an interesting race to the […]
Can regulators keep up with Cloud Computing?
We all know them almost by heart, PCI, SAS-70, HIPPA, SOX, and the ton of federal, state and business driven rules and regulations that companies and security engineers need to keep up with. In a rational and impassioned blog entry, Rational Survivability asks if regulators are keeping up with changes in the Cloud Computing environment. […]
10 Reasons When you know it is time to fire your Client
Everyone in consulting at some point has reached the end of the rope with a client, either through nonpayment, not listening, or any number of reasons that someone can come up with. Not all businesses are built equally and even though they will hire a very high priced client, when they stop listening, or when […]
