A FireEye chat with Kevin Mandia

In early May, FireEye announced that company president Kevin Mandia would replace industry veteran Dave DeWalt as CEO. My colleague Doug Cahill had a chance to catch up with Mandia yesterday to get his perspectives on FireEye, enterprise security and the threat landscape amongst others. Here are a few highlights:On FireEye’s direction: In spite of lots of distraction, Mandia is focused on driving “engineering innovation” at FireEye. Normally, this vision would be equated with security products alone, but Mandia believes products can anchor services as well.  This involves installing FireEye’s endpoint and network security products on a customer network, collecting telemetry, comparing it to current threat intelligence, detecting malicious activities, and then working with customers on remediation. To accomplish this, FireEye products must be “best in class” for threat detection on a stand-alone basis. The FireEye staff is then available to add brain power and muscle to help product customers as needed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A FireEye Chat with Kevin Mandia

In early May, FireEye announced that company president Kevin Mandia would replace industry veteran Dave DeWalt as CEO.  My colleague Doug Cahill had a chance to catch up with Kevin yesterday to get his perspectives on FireEye, enterprise security, and the threat landscape amongst others.  Here are a few highlights:On FireEye’s direction:  In spite of lots of distraction, Mandia is focused on driving “engineering innovation” at FireEye.  Normally, this vision would be equated with security products alone but Kevin’s believes that products can anchor services as well.  This involves installing FireEye’s endpoint and network security products on a customer network, collecting telemetry, comparing it to current threat intelligence, detecting malicious activities, and then working with customers on remediation.  To accomplish this, FireEye products must be “best-in-class” for threat detection on a stand-alone basis.  The FireEye staff is then available to add brain power and muscle to help product customers as needed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A FireEye Chat with Kevin Mandia

In early May, FireEye announced that company president Kevin Mandia would replace industry veteran Dave DeWalt as CEO.  My colleague Doug Cahill had a chance to catch up with Kevin yesterday to get his perspectives on FireEye, enterprise security, and the threat landscape amongst others.  Here are a few highlights:On FireEye’s direction:  In spite of lots of distraction, Mandia is focused on driving “engineering innovation” at FireEye.  Normally, this vision would be equated with security products alone but Kevin’s believes that products can anchor services as well.  This involves installing FireEye’s endpoint and network security products on a customer network, collecting telemetry, comparing it to current threat intelligence, detecting malicious activities, and then working with customers on remediation.  To accomplish this, FireEye products must be “best-in-class” for threat detection on a stand-alone basis.  The FireEye staff is then available to add brain power and muscle to help product customers as needed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Security of “high-impact” federal systems not exactly rock-solid

In the face of relentless attacks – via malware, DDOS and malicious email – the defenses that protect the nation’s most “high impact” systems are spotty at best and could leave important programs open to nefarious activities, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.+More on Network World: Not dead yet: 7 of the oldest federal IT systems still wheezing away+At issue here the GAO wrote is the weakness of “high impact” system protection because the government describes those “that hold sensitive information, the loss of which could cause individuals, the government, or the nation catastrophic harm,” and as such should be getting increased security to protect them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Security of “high-impact” federal systems not exactly rock-solid

In the face of relentless attacks – via malware, DDOS and malicious email – the defenses that protect the nation’s most “high impact” systems are spotty at best and could leave important programs open to nefarious activities, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.+More on Network World: Not dead yet: 7 of the oldest federal IT systems still wheezing away+At issue here the GAO wrote is the weakness of “high impact” system protection because the government describes those “that hold sensitive information, the loss of which could cause individuals, the government, or the nation catastrophic harm,” and as such should be getting increased security to protect them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft cozies up to Linux containers

At Dockercon this week many vendors are singing the praises of their platforms being ideally suited to run application containers. One company with a particularly strong showing at the conference has been Microsoft though, which announced today it is further integrating Docker’s container management products into its Azure cloud portfolio.Microsoft’s container-related announcements at Dockercon include:-Docker Datacenter, the container management platform product is now available as a service in the Azure public cloud marketplace. This is a big deal because it allows customers to run Docker Datacenter on their own premises, and in the public cloud. This is not an exclusive agreement however; Docker Datacenter is also available in Amazon Web Service’s cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: 60 Limit and the CCDE

So how hard can it be to earn a CCDE? It’s just a rubber stamp to show that you have been working in design for a number of years, isn’t it? Well not quite. You have to really prove your experience and knowledge in a number of fields, encompassing a variety of roles that not every candidate would have been fortunate enough to have undertaken prior to gaining that prestigious CCDE number. -Cisco Learning

LinkedInTwitterGoogle+Facebook

The post Worth Reading: 60 Limit and the CCDE appeared first on 'net work.

Over 80% off Essential Speed Reading Bundle – Deal Alert

You know that stack of books you’ve been meaning to tackle, but thought you never had the time? The Essential Speed Reading Bundle comes with a 3-year subscription to Spreeder and 7 Speed Reading EX, two tools proven to boost reading speeds. Spreeder is a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) e-reader that presents any digital text at a natural speed that reduces eye movement and increases comprehension. Meanwhile, 7 Speed Reading EX is a speed reading software that trains you to read up to 3.417 times faster through video tutorials and comprehension exercises. Retailing for $146.95, the Essential Speed Reading Bundle is available on sale for $19, almost 90% off its original price.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Salesforce steps up its push to make everyone an app developer

Salesforce has already rolled out several tools that aim to let business users create their own mobile apps, and on Tuesday it unified them into a suite and added some new services on the back end.The new App Cloud Mobile suite includes Salesforce's Lightning app creation tools, which require little to no coding and are supposed to make it easy enough for everyday business people to create their own iPhone and Android applications.It also includes the development services of Force and Heroku, and the ability to bring Wave Analytics and Lightning Snap-ins to any mobile app.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

47% Off Canon All-In-One Printer with Mobile Tablet Printing with Airprint and Google Cloud Print capabilities – Deal Alert

This all-in-one printer from Canon allows you to print with many powerful options including AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Morphia and the Canon PRINT app. You can even print photos from Instagram or Facebook directly from your smartphone or tablet. The printing quality is remarkable with deeper black and vivid reds. This printer currently averages 4 out of 5 stars (read reviews). With the current 47% discount, its regular list price of $149.99 has been reduced to $78.98. Learn more and check out the buying options on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Reaction: Complexity Sells

Over at IPSpace this last week, Ivan pointed to a paper by Dijkstra (and if you don’t know who that is, you need to learn a thing or two about the history of routing protocols—because history makes culture, and culture matters—or, as the tagline on this blog says, culture eats technology for breakfast). In this paper, Dijkstra points out some rather important things about computer science and programming that can be directly applied to the network engineering world. For instance, Ivan says—

People tend to forget that “doing away with the programmer” was COBOL’s major original objective. —Replace “programmer” with “networking engineer” and COBOL with SDN ?

I was fascinated with Ivan’s take on this paper—particularly in that complexity is an area I find interesting and very useful in my everyday life as a designer—that I went and read the original article. You should, too.

I think Ivan’s observations are spot on, but I think it’s worthwhile to actually broaden them. From where I sit, after 25 years building and breaking networks, I agree that complexity sells—but it sells for two particular reasons. The reason, as Dijkstra said all those years ago (in computer terms), is this:

Since the Continue reading

New Slack tools let you chat with bots using buttons

Slack is making it easier for people to interact with third-party services that integrate with its chat app with the launch of a new developer tool that lets bots add clickable buttons to their messages. What that means is that someone can submit an expense request to an app that's integrated into Slack, and that person's manager can then receive it -- within the chat interface -- along with buttons that let them easily approve or deny the request.  It's part of Slack's push to enhance its chat application with third-party integrations. This makes it easier for people to interact with outside services from within Slack, something the company has been emphasizing as one of its key features. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The best apps to help you relax and reduce stress

Your phone is probably one of the biggest stressors in your life. It’s constantly buzzing with email alerts, text messages, news updates, sports scores, and tweets. Sure, you can turn those off, but then that means you probably just check it more often to see if you “missed anything.”A recent study from the University of Illinois found a likely link between smartphone use, stress, and overall life satisfaction. There’s other evidence that meditation and mindfulness have positive benefits, even some physical changes to the brain. The makers of the Headspace app have a clever animation that explains some of this:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Measure your employees’ results, not their time

If you think money will make your employees happier, you might be wrong. Many workers report they value autonomy over anything else. Of course, you also need to ensure your employees basic needs are met at work. But from there, the data suggests that if you instill trust and freedom in your workforce, they will thrive.Irv Shapiro, CEO of DialogTech, is a strong believer in employee autonomy, and it's something he practices at his own company. "Unless your business sells services by the hour, it makes little sense to measure your employees by the hour. Instead employers should measure their employee's success by the results they produce."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

3 tips for negotiating the salary you deserve

In a recovering economy and a tight IT talent market, candidates are finding they have more leverage when negotiating salary for a new position or angling for a raise. The key to managing this tricky, nerve-wracking process is to focus on your accomplishments, achievements and your overall value to the company -- and be able to quantify those.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

1 … 2,873 2,874 2,875 2,876 2,877 … 3,840