It happens every couple years. Some vendor is really pissed at their placement in the Magic Quadrant, and they decide to sue Gartner and make it right. Inevitably the suit involves the words pay to play, and the vendor thinks they will be the company to make things right in the world. They will get justice for all those companies relegated to the loser niche quadrant. They will unmask the evil analysts for the shakedown artists they are.
At Black Hat last week, it became apparent just how mainstream our little part of the world has become. And it’s not so little any more, either. When 2 of the top 5 articles on cnn.com are related to cyber we have hit the big time. But that also means promoters and other shysters will start showing up in even greater numbers to capitalize on the media hype machine looking for any kind of news to drive page views.
This is part 4 of our Security Pro’s Guide to Cloud File Storage and Collaboration (file sync and share). The full paper isavailable on GitHub as we write it. See also part 1, part 2, and part 3.
There is no free lunch. We need to be reminded of that over and over again. Apparently the Australian government wants to mandate telcos store customer data for 2 years. This is ostensibly to combat terrorism.
I read Jim Bird’s blog consistently because he talks about stuff that interests me. He has a ton of experience and his posts are thought-provoking. And every couple months I totally disagree with him, which makes reading his stuff all the more fun. This week is one of those times, with Devops isn’t killing developers – but it is killing development and developer productivity. I think Jim flat-out misses the mark on this one.
If you caught my weekend rantings on Twitter, I had some free time this past weekend. The Boss was on a girl’s weekend. The kids are away at camp. And I had a meeting with a client first thing Monday morning. So I could have stayed in the ATL and taken an evening flight out. Or I could fly out first thing in the morning and find a way to get my blood pumping.
We have talked a lot about how this cloud thing and the associated DevOps revolution will fundamentally reshape security. Probably not tomorrow, or even the day after that. But before you know it, everything you thought you knew about security will have changed. Rich documented a bunch of our thinking in his Future of Security paper, so you can start there.
I really like this story about ULTRA Testing, which hires folks on the autism spectrum to perform software testing. The CEO makes a great point here:
Side note: we are aware of the site issues and are working hard on them. There were major changes to the platform we use, and they conflict with our high-security setup. I think we should have it fixed soon, and we apologize. That’s what we get for having a non-DevOps-y legacy site.
This is part 3 of our Security Pro’s Guide to Cloud File Storage and Collaboration (file sync and share). The full paper isavailable on GitHub as we write it. See also part 1 and part 2 here.