Security: Interviews
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ScrumMaster offers tips on how to play in a winning dev team 01/12/2008 12:41:00
The original ScrumMaster, John Scumniotales, talks about the genesis of the popular agile software development methodology, the importance of incorporating stakeholder feedback and the “healthy tension” between developers and product managers.The original ScrumMaster, John Scumniotales, talks about the genesis of the popular agile software development methodology, the importance of incorporating stakeholder feedback and the “healthy tension” between developers and product managers. - +
How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison 27/11/2008 13:09:00
If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero.If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero. - +
The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy 03/11/2008 08:32:00
The project lead explains why the hypervisor is not Hyper-V, how multitenant apps are supported, and why Azure is not like Amazon's EC2Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud. - +
McAfee looks to security in virtual environments 21/10/2008 09:36:00
DeWalt says the company's products will share common management, reportingMcAfee is hunkering down to integrate the security technologies it has bought over the past several months into its varied line of security software and appliances. Two trends in the company's activities are developing parallel products for deployment as software on endpoints and as network-based appliances. This week, for instance, the company is announcing that NAC software can be installed on its IntruShield IPS appliance to give customers the option of enforcing NAC policies in the network, not just on the endpoint. The company is bringing management of these platforms under control of its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) in an effort to centralize control of network security. Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene spoke with McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt about these efforts as well as other issues facing the company. - +
Interview with The Pirate Bay founder 16/10/2008 10:32:00
Recent controversy in Europe over torrent containing photographs of a child murder spawns debate over Pirate Bay's policies. Here, we interview one of its founders.The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the world's biggest torrent tracker sites, found itself embroiled in controversy last month, when a link to a torrent containing photographs of a grisly child murder in Sweden appeared on the site. - +
Privacy is a thing of the past, says private investigator 13/10/2008 07:24:00
Private eye Steven Rambam explains what he does, how he knows everything about you and why he's not the one you should be worried about.In his 25 years in business, Steven Rambam has worked on some high-profile cases, including tracking down Nazi war criminals in Canada. He also owns PallTech, an investigative database service with more than 25 billion records on US citizens and businesses. - +
Websense CEO unveils a brand-new company 29/09/2008 10:21:00
Gene Hodges explains the reasoning behind the new logo change, the DLP market and unveils corporate goals for 2009With last year's acquisition of Port Authority, a data loss prevention (DLP) vendor and SurfControl, a Web and e-mail security company, Websense has since evolved from being known as a Web solution company to establishing itself as one that also provides DLP and e-mail security solutions. - +
Keeping security talent on the job 18/09/2008 10:45:00
AlliedBarton's learning and development guru Rich Cordivari shares his company's strategy for keeping security professionals engaged and happy in a high turnover industryAs vice president of learning and development for US-based AlliedBarton Security Services, Rich Cordivari is responsible for the training community in the company. That means he oversees 150 trainers who work locally all over the country to deliver education to AlliedBarton employees. Cordivari, who has been with the company since 2003, discusses his strategy for boosting retention rates with programs that speak to the company's diverse geographic accounts, as well as the different generations now working for AlliedBarton. - +
AT&T security guru talks DoS attacks, hackers 08/09/2008 08:04:00
Botnets, protection of personal information pose biggest challenges, AT&T CSO Edward Amoroso says.Edward Amoroso is the chief security officer at AT&T in the US, as well as a professor who has written several textbooks on information security. Amoroso spoke with Jon Brodkin last week in Boston, where he delivered a keynote about network security during Forrester's Security Forum. - +
MBTA flaw disclosure: The students speak up 08/09/2008 11:51:00
Zack Anderson, one of three MIT students who successfully exploited flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system, says they were right to disclose the problem, but that miscommunication was an issue.Zack Anderson was one of three MIT students who caused a stir over the summer when they decided to disclose flaws they discovered in the Massachusetts transit authority's "Charlie Card" fare system. - +
At the front lines of protecting the Internet 03/09/2008 08:35:00
VeriSign's CTO on securing the DNS infrastructure and whether new identity certificates add any valueVeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and other domains. In recent years, it's had both strong ups and strong downs.
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