When someone hacks together the foundation of a really slick NMS at some company that needs it, it inevitably becomes a competitive asset and therefore cloistered in the bowels of engineering.
Now you know why the Opensource NMS tools are mediocre.
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You need:
1. A good network management system (Open-NMS)
2. A good systems monitoring system (MRTG+RRD Tool)
3. A good helpdesk software to follow trouble tickets.
Security consists of:
(i)Effective policies
(ii) Tools/Techniques to enforce the policies
Both have to be easy to follow and use. You can combine effective policies with the simplest tools like passwords are get better results that combining poor policies with DNA scan!!
Schools don't allow the use of calculators in any of the classes till 12th grade. And definitely not in the exams. You sneak one in and you are barred from appearing in the exam.
If you look at the evolution of Cisco's products, you will see that they are heading towards one-in-all products.
The routers now feature routing, limited switching (a switch module in the 3600), firewall (CBAC), IDS, VPN, VoIP, Limited IP telephony, caching (including HDDs) and streaming. So its no surprise that they are building in layer-7 awareness check into it also.
Look at firewall vendors. They are also building in layer-7 awareness into the products rather than depend on an external IDS. Consolidation is the name of the game. IMHO, I don't think the one-in-all product is a good thing but I think its a hit with IT *managers* and bean counters. They can't seem to understand the plethora of boxes required to run a network safely.
we changed the admin password of a colleague's Win2k machine who'd forgotten his password. But we also reminded ourselves just how important is physical security.
How are others P2P software like Gnutella based clients doing (Bearshare, Limewire)? Last I used them about a couple of years back, they were fine. They are free and open protocol based.
....they were slashdotted within seconds. But seriously, how would you handle a DoS on a network of webcams? Anything over the internet is reliable enough for security monitoring given attacks like DoS/DDoS?
The move is not to stop sale of non-chinese software but to force software MNCs to invest in China and start their development facilities in China.
This is nothing new. In the middle-east most countries require foreign companies to partner with a local company that holds the controlling stake. So for example, IBM operates as GBM (Gulf Business Machines) in the middle-east.
So, the Chinese government won't buy software from M$(US) but from M$(China) after M$ sets up a development facility in China. This will also force MNCs to divert investments from other competing economies like India, Indonesia, Philipines etc.
On the other hand, desktops and servers could run Linux and other open source software customised for Chinese, networking equipment would be sourced from Hua-Wei, chips are already manufactured in China. What else's remaining??
If they claim that half of all crashes are due to third party code then they are admitting that the other half is because of M$ crappy coding. Still means their testing/coding is useless mostly!!!
Come again, what was the point M$ was trying to make here??
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When someone hacks together the foundation of a really slick NMS at some company that needs it, it inevitably becomes a competitive asset and therefore cloistered in the bowels of engineering.
Now you know why the Opensource NMS tools are mediocre.
You need:
1. A good network management system (Open-NMS)
2. A good systems monitoring system (MRTG+RRD Tool)
3. A good helpdesk software to follow trouble tickets.
Security consists of:
(i)Effective policies
(ii) Tools/Techniques to enforce the policies
Both have to be easy to follow and use. You can combine effective policies with the simplest tools like passwords are get better results that combining poor policies with DNA scan!!
Schools don't allow the use of calculators in any of the classes till 12th grade. And definitely not in the exams. You sneak one in and you are barred from appearing in the exam.
How about Shaved beaver in a black suit and black sunglasses?? ;) IBM would sure lap it up!!
If you look at the evolution of Cisco's products, you will see that they are heading towards one-in-all products.
The routers now feature routing, limited switching (a switch module in the 3600), firewall (CBAC), IDS, VPN, VoIP, Limited IP telephony, caching (including HDDs) and streaming. So its no surprise that they are building in layer-7 awareness check into it also.
Look at firewall vendors. They are also building in layer-7 awareness into the products rather than depend on an external IDS. Consolidation is the name of the game. IMHO, I don't think the one-in-all product is a good thing but I think its a hit with IT *managers* and bean counters. They can't seem to understand the plethora of boxes required to run a network safely.
http://www.wunderground.com
The site provides detailed weather and sky charts for almost anywhere in the world. Cool, eh!!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
In a decade we would've redefined privacy.
http://perl-oak.sourceforge.net/downloads/Oak-1.8. tar.gz
we changed the admin password of a colleague's Win2k machine who'd forgotten his password. But we also reminded ourselves just how important is physical security.
But I pity the victims of a forthcoming worm
How are others P2P software like Gnutella based clients doing (Bearshare, Limewire)? Last I used them about a couple of years back, they were fine. They are free and open protocol based.
Heyy!! The parent was meant to be modded funny
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it"
- Said a wise man
.... I want PDA + Cellphone + MP3 player. And a $1500 PDA?? Now who would want that??
BONGO!!
;-)
:)
The salesguy told me that it had no TCP/IP stack and they do not support TCP/IP over Bongo
Heh, but what do salespeople know?? Now I can bing from anywhere in the world!!
Guns - Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Hacker tools - Ban them, put anyone who writes or shares them behind bars??
File Sharing tools - Ban them, put anyone who uses file sharing behind bars??
Dang!! Fscking net lag!!
First post! Isn't that enought to mod me up?? ;)
Big Bad Companies combine with Big Bad Government to screw people!!! Old Story!!
Next??
.... watch public places sitting in a cybercafe or from the hills of Afghanistan!!!
....they were slashdotted within seconds. But seriously, how would you handle a DoS on a network of webcams? Anything over the internet is reliable enough for security monitoring given attacks like DoS/DDoS?
The move is not to stop sale of non-chinese software but to force software MNCs to invest in China and start their development facilities in China.
This is nothing new. In the middle-east most countries require foreign companies to partner with a local company that holds the controlling stake. So for example, IBM operates as GBM (Gulf Business Machines) in the middle-east.
So, the Chinese government won't buy software from M$(US) but from M$(China) after M$ sets up a development facility in China. This will also force MNCs to divert investments from other competing economies like India, Indonesia, Philipines etc.
On the other hand, desktops and servers could run Linux and other open source software customised for Chinese, networking equipment would be sourced from Hua-Wei, chips are already manufactured in China. What else's remaining??
If they claim that half of all crashes are due to third party code then they are admitting that the other half is because of M$ crappy coding. Still means their testing/coding is useless mostly!!!
Come again, what was the point M$ was trying to make here??