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Start-up Venture Capital
I'm getting ready to run downstairs to the Florida Venture Forum 2009 Early Stage Venture Capital Conference outside Orlando at Omni ChampionsGate. Beautiful golf course. It will be interesting to see who is here. I am hoping 2 companies made...
CIO's Top Tech Investments
Robert Half interviewed 1400 CIO's for a research study (press release here), It's not a surprising list: Security, VOIP, Virtualization, SAAS, and data center efficiency. Considering power costs much more than space, getting energy and hardware efficient means cost savings....
Why Security Will Be Priority 1
As I skim the Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report (PDF) to find that "295 million records were compromised and there were 90 confirmed breaches last year", I think where is the security? The Intrusion Detection Systems, the firewalls,...
7 Steps to Better SIP Security on Asterisk by JT
John Todd is an Asterisk evangelist and works for Digium. VoIP Users Conference reposted John's 7 steps to better SIP Security on Asterik (here). The reason for the 7 steps now? "In the last few months, a number of new...
IT Folks Chatting About Communications
During a discussion online, some interesting items popped up.Companies ban Instant Message. One IT Security Consultant looks at the irony of it here. Tele-Presence is all about improved efficiency in communicating -- no more phone tag, less voicemail, that kind...
Do You Work on Encrypted VoIP?
I am on Peter Shankman's HARO list. This morning there is a UK reporter from Future Intelligence looking for anyone working on Encrypted VoIP in Europe. (Deadline is 9/15). The Editor, Peter Warren, is looking for: "I am looking for...
SPIT and Vomit
We had the huge DNS security hole a couple of weeks ago. Now we have the BGP security flaw. What next?Well, according to a presentation by VOIPSA, there are threats out there to target SIP. BTW, VOIPSA is the VoIP...
How Safe is the Cloud?
Network World has a story about how an online storage site, Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, shut down this week after 45% of the data was lost. Who's fault is it? Well, the article tries to figure that out.As we...
PCI Compliance
Elizabeth Bowles at Aristotle.Net gave a session on e-Commerce that included some PCI DSS stuff. PCI DSS is like HIPAA in a lot of ways: buzz but no one has a handle on it. There's more myth than fact, but...
SAAS and Security
Here's the downside to SAAS: security breach and down time.This week Amazon was down twice, which is hard to believe because I can not remember them being unavailable. Yahoo Mail has had outages. Twitter is constantly down.Every data center, even...
