December 2004 - Posts - There is no Place like 127.0.0.1

10 Gigabit Ethernet Hits the Enterprise

Original eWeek article
Vendors Hewlett Packard, Alcatel and S2io each announced 10 Gigabit Ethernet products Monday that are aimed squarely at enterprise data centers.
The products stackable switches from HP and Alcatel and a 10 Gig server adapter from are the latest in a series of announcements of affordable devices in this class. Until these announcements, 10 Gig products supported mainly switch-to-switch connections for large enterprise, campus and carrier networks.
The announcement of so many enterprise switches of this type, along with PCI-X adapters that will be used in HP servers, is expected to jump-start enterprise use of high-bandwidth communications.

Posted Dec 09 2004, 12:11 AM by derekv with no comments

Microsoft IT Attack and Penetration Testing Team

Overview
Attack and penetration testing is a set of techniques and methodologies to test compliance to security policies, and to detect previously unknown vulnerabilities. The overall goal is to limit the points of exposure and to restrict the ability of unknown attackers to gain entry. However, developing an effective attack and penetration testing team presents unique management challenges. This discussion gives some best practice advice and lessons learned from the Microsoft IT experience building and operating an internal attack and penetration testing team.

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MicrosoftITAttackAndPenetrationTestingTeamPPT.ppt
MicrosoftITAttackAndPenetrationTestingTeamTSB.doc

The original article can be found here:

Posted Dec 09 2004, 12:01 AM by derekv with no comments

Filed under: Usefull Resources

- Quotes I refer to regularly -

"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
"Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day!"
"Failure is not an OPTION! It comes bundled with the software."
"I don't have a solution but I admire the problem."
"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond."
"We need more people who specialize in the impossible."
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be"
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps in any case."
"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
"Try and make it IDIOT proof and someone will make a better IDIOT."
"Semper in excrementum, sole profundum qui variat." Latin for "Always in the shit; just the depth that varies."

Posted Dec 08 2004, 11:08 PM by derekv with no comments

Filed under: Time Out

The beginning

Note to self:

Now that you have finally started to "blog", please do not stop - share you thoughts, ideas and experience with the world...
You have much to teach and to give to others - do not let it go to waste.

Posted Dec 08 2004, 11:00 PM by derekv

Filed under: Time Out

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