January 07, 2019
Life Safety Above All Else
Years ago, when I sat for my CISSP, I went into the exam carrying two bits of advice offered to me by a mentor: #1. In matters of security, choose the most conservative path.#2. Life safety above all else. Critical infrastructure providers, and more specifically, the Healthcare and Public Health providers, have rightfully followed these […]
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August 07, 2018
What Does Citrix Sharefile Have to Do With Harvard?
The Harvard Business Review conducted a study to understand how successful teams collaborate using file sharing technology. In general, they discovered the following fingerprints of successful team collaboration in the logs of their file sharing technology: Smaller teams are more successful.Research with the most impact, involved longer projects. Imagine that? Research teams at top universities worked on […]
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April 02, 2018
What is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Its 5 Benefits
As problem-solvers, we like to think outside the box at Sayers. Sometimes, however, the best solution is inside the box. Hyperconvergence is one of those situations where you shouldn’t ignore the box, because the answer is there. A hyperconverged IT platform presents the hardware and software to drive your data center. You don’t need to piece together your […]
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March 05, 2018
Did You Order All These Large Packets?
This week GitHub became the victim of the largest DDOS attack ever recorded due to a new amplification attack being observed in the wild. This attack, which did not require building a botnet or compromising any servers, was able to generate 1.35TBps of data against the target. It leveraged UDP responses from memcached servers exposed to the […]
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January 04, 2018
Moore’s Law Crippled by Security Flaw
Most of us working in Information Technology are aware of the Moore’s Law observation. A gross over-simplification would be to say the transistor density on an integrated circuit doubles about every two years (some quote 18 months), and as a result, performance increases by double in that same time-frame. Ironically, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of […]
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November 02, 2017
Threat Deception: Attacking the Illusion
“Guardian, this is Rapier….three klicks southeast of target…Rapier is Oscar Mike. Radio silent. Over.” “Copy Rapier. This is Guardian. Out.” “Guardian, this is Rapier. Code worked. Rapier in the perimeter headed to target…..FRV in five. Over” “Roger. Out….” “Guardian, this is Rapier. What’s goin’ on? We’re in the building ……negative contact….I repeat, negative contact. Nothing. […]
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