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Real and Bizarre Information Security Situations 2008-08-10 07:08:43 Information security has a lot of flaws and errors. Some of them are caused by persons, some by technology. And most of them are so flagrant, that no one would believe that they are possible. Here is a list of the most bizarre but real situations in information security that I encountered during the years of my work (naturally, everything is anonymized):An organization had a secure site where the Read more:Bizarre
Cloud Computing - Premature murder of the datacenter 2008-08-25 03:06:12 Last week Amazon announced it's new cloud computing service - The Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) . It's a remote storage service, with excellent storage/cost ratio which is even advertised as replacement for large storage systems of the enterprise. Naturally, the ever controversy seeking journalists hurried to declare time of death to the enterprise data center and included this view:Though Read more:Cloud
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Is the Server Running - optimal use of redundancy on a budget 2008-12-06 15:55:46 When purchasing a server, most companies select a server class computer from a reputable manufacturer. And in this day, usually the servers come loaded with redundant components to optimize server availability and make it more resilient. And yet a lot of these servers fail at the first glitch simply because they are not configured properly. Here is a brief blueprint on how to optimal
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