Monthly Archives: April 2007

You Are Safe Until You Are Not

ZDNet reports on John Pescatore’s talk at the Gartner Symposiumin SF this week. John is probably the best security analyst at Gartner and an influencer of many a CIO. It’s a good article and there are links to the hype … Continue reading

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To Find the Danger, This Software Poses as the Bad Guys

Michael Fitzgerald published a nice article on Veracode in NYT today. He gets to the heart of the matter about why the Veracode approach matters. Veracode isn’t the first company to try to automate elements of hacking. Companies like Fortify, … Continue reading

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Analysis: Automated Code Scanners

One of the best articles I’ve seen on application security analysis. Of course, some of the problem with current approaches are remedied when one takes a binary, SaaS approach and issues are scrubbed for false positives by trained security experts–in … Continue reading

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Perception and Reality: Why It Makes Sense For Google To Pay $3.1B For DoubleClick

Perception and reality sometimes have a twisted relationship. That’s particularly true in cases where being perceived as the leader makes you the leader. We tend to see these types of self-fulfilling prophecies in aggregator / market maker and other critical … Continue reading

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SavaJe Goes to Sun

In a smart move, Sun bought SavaJe, which had built a complete mobile software stack using Java. I hope Sun embraces Linux as the phone OS layer and opens up the SavaJe stack to multiple presentation technologies by integrating an AJAX-enabled … Continue reading

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ILB / RNLI

At dinner last night I was having a bit of a hard time describing the boats that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI, which is somewhat like UK’s version of the US Coast Guard Service) uses. Since a picture is … Continue reading

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