Development and General

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• Scaling Security in the Cloud: Just Hit the Reset Button

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Sometimes the best answer to a problem is to hit the reset button, but it should probably be the last answer, not the first. My cohort Pete Silva attended the 2009 Cloud Computing and Virtualization Conference & Expo and offered up a summary of one of the sessions he enjoyed (‘ Cloud Security - Its ...
  2 days ago

• WARNING: Security Device Enclosed

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  If you aren’t using all the security tools at your disposal you’re doing it wrong. How many times have you seen an employee wave on by a customer when the “security device enclosed” in some item – be it DVD, CD, or clothing – sets off the alarm at the doors? Just a few weeks ago I heard one young ...
  3 days ago

• It’s DNSSEC Not DNSSUX

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Whenever keys, certificates, and PKI enter into a security solution’s architecture the solution almost always becomes overly complex. DNSSEC is no exception, but it doesn’t have to be. DNS plays a role in every application on the Internet. It is the 411 of the Internet, essentially, without which the millions ...
  4 days ago

• Google SPDY Protocol Would Require Mass Change in Infrastructure

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Google’s desire to speed up the web via a new protocol is laudable, but the SPDY protocol would require massive changes across networks to support ArsTechnica had an interesting article on one of Google’s latest projects, a new web protocol designed to replace HTTP called SPDY . SPDY uses a ...
  5 days ago

• Data as a Service Could Drastically Impact Success of SQL Injection Attacks

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  The question is whether that impact is positive (a reduction) or negative (an increase). One of the biggest threats to data integrity is the introduction of malicious content via SQLi (SQL Injection) attacks. Traditional database access methods don’t provide a lot in the way of validating requests and like HTML ...
  6 days ago

• Is Vendor Lock-In Really a Bad Thing?

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  When you look at the success of some very proprietary solutions and the loyalty with which customers defend them, you have to wonder if vendor lock-in is really as bad a thing as we sometimes make it sound. The subtext in the discussions around data portability and interoperability in general in cloud ...
  1 week ago

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Guides

  
  Persistently Different — Authority: 100
  Well hello again! After a week off with H1N1 (don’t get it, you really won’t like it), and another week or two catching up, I’m finally back in the saddle and there’s plenty to talk about – some of it stuff I should have been talking about weeks ago. Today we’ll discuss the Deployment Guides some ...
  1 week ago

• Cloud, Standards, and Pants

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  These three things have a lot more in common than you might think and all three tend to evoke similar levels of frustration. A very real problem women face when shopping is this: no two brands define a size the same. If you usually wear a size 8 in “Brand X” you might actually wear a size 10 or 6 in ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Drowsy’ Networking

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  No, not the kind you do on Facebook when you’re really, really tired but the kind defined as a means to reduce power consumption without affecting application performance or availability by eliminating non-essential processing and networking whenever possible.  An article on “Drowsy” computing as a ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Exchange 2010: HELO New Architecture

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Microsoft has made some fairly substantial changes to the core architecture of Exchange 2010. Given that messaging can only be described as business critical today, it’s no surprise that many new aspects of Exchange 2010 and in particular its new architecture are designed to improve availability and management of ...
  1 week ago

• Virtualization Changes Application Deployment But Not Development

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Cloud computing management functionality and standards are right now laser-focused on virtual machines, and most APIs include the ability to stop,start,launch,etc…at that level of the infrastructure. This is because the application is still insulated by its virtualized environment. The “depth” of management and ...
  1 week ago

• TLS Man-in-the-Middle Attack Disclosed Yesterday Solved Today with Network-Side Scripting

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Yesterday the blogosphere, twittosphere, and other-spheres were abuzz when a new TLS renegotiation man-in-the-middle attack was disclosed . Interestingly enough, while we were all still reading about it and figuring out all the nuances, one of our own DevCentral members was out implementing a solution. ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Is More Important Than Where in Web Application Security

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  While you spend your time arguing over where application security belongs, miscreants are taking advantage of vulnerabilities. By the time you address the problem, they’ve moved on to the next one. Dmitry Evteev @ Positive Technologies Research has discovered (yet) another method of exploitation that allows ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twitter Account Lockouts Continue to Plague Users

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Brute force attacks by spammers seeking easy access causing frustration for users with no resolution in sight At least once a day I see someone on Twitter broadcast that they have been “locked out of their Twitter account, temporarily.” A search for “locked out” returns thousands of tweets with a good ...
  2 weeks ago

• The API Is the New CLI

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever purpose a developer might ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maybe Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Makes Cloud Computing Too Easy

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  With just a few clicks you, too, can create a cloud computing environment. But if you’re like a lot of organizations, you may not know what to do with it after that. The latest version of Ubuntu Server (9.10) includes the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is actually powered by Eucalyptus . The ability to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Using Network-Side Scripting to Convert Microsoft Smart Quotes to HTML Entities

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  You can address the problem of converting smart quotes – and any other content - in your application if you control the code. What if you’re using third-party software for which you do not have the code? Or what if it is your code but the “defect” is so low on the priority list that you won’t get to it ...
  2 weeks ago

• WILS: Three Ways To Better Utilize Resources In Any Data Center

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Cloud computing is, at its core, about using resources in the most operational and financially efficient manner possible. It’s about spreading resources around and sharing them to achieve greater scalability with fewer investments in hardware and software. But what if you aren’t moving to cloud? Or virtualization? ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Take Advantage of Cloud Computing You Must Unlearn, Luke.

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Carrying over the provisioning and capacity planning techniques used in a traditional data center to cloud computing negates the full power of the Force cloud computing. One of the benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be efficiency, particularly in the utilization of compute resources. Over-provisioning ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vertical Scalability Cloud Computing Style

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 511
  Vertical scalability used to require optimizations inside the application, at the code level. Cloud computing changes the nature of vertical scalability and, one hopes, will lead to a new model of scalability based on the capabilities of Infrastructure 2.0 and increasingly granular resource management capabilities. ...
  3 weeks ago

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