Zen 2.0

So as I was going back through this month’s news, it seemed that one of the biggest news is that Google is bidding to provide free wi-fi service to the city of San Francisco. The proposal is to blanket 49 square miles with up to 30 access points per square mile and will server over [...]

Oh my gawd, 3 posts in 1 day and no real content…wassup with that. I promise, when I get a chance one of these days, I will start generating some real content… On to official business… Now here is the catch. I can’t tell you to vote as according to the rules, no agent, employee, [...]

My company, LogLogic, is looking to fill a “log analyst” position. We are looking for someone who can – understanding the log formats and transport mechanisms – researching different log formats to identify common categories (to help design the back end) – parsing and normalizing the logs for the necessary information, based on requirements – [...]

Log Article on Secure Convergence Journal. Today’s enterprise networks are at risk — threatened by privacy breaches, information leakage, security attacks, policy violations and network downtime. Incidents are increasingly associated with hard dollar losses that go beyond the damage to a company’s reputation. About 95 percent of these financial losses are attributable to intentional or [...]

LogLogic, where I work as the Director of Product Management, has created a Log Blog to share our experience in Log Management and Intelligence (LMI), news and other events. The industry has a LOT of buzz around log management. Please look for lots of sharing on the Log Blog.

Playing with online polling sites, so I created this one: The number of unique accounts I use regularly is Please try it out. It would be interesting to find out.

My article, IT Needs Help Finding Root Causes , has been published in the 8/15/05 print edition of Computerworld.

I am quoted in this article on the Cisco vulnerability disclosure incident.

My article, What to do before an IOS disaster strikes, has been published on Computerworld. The following list of links are related to the Black Hat event that happened last week. SecurityFocus: Cisco, ISS file suit against rogue researcher North American Network Operators Group BoingBoing: Michael Lynn’s controversial Cisco security presentation Wired: Whistleblower Faces FBI [...]

Most of the respondents to Gartner survey on security are concerned about viruses, outside hacking, identity theft and spyware. Their least concerns are cyber-terrorism, social engineering and zero day threats. Isn’t this amazing? Zero day threats being the least concerned risk. Everyone and their mother’s talking about zero day threats these days and selling products [...]