Hat tip to Rothman for this. I don't know if Stiennon is off his meds or simply needed to re-post something from 2001 to meet an editorial quota, but his Network World article titled "The Most Important Networking Trend of 2008" ties thus far with the "Evolution of Dance" as my v...

Google’s define function for “web analytics� offer this definition: The study of user activity on a web site or web application to understand how well it fulfils its objectives. I couldn’t define web analytics better if I tried – because it’s true. We’re trying to study our site visito...

Bob Walters from Untangle on his Untangling blog has an article about open source business models and how Untangle is utilizing multiple revenue streams as their business model because the software they use is open source and is inherently free. Bob calls the article "Money for nothin’ and Code fo...

As we continue to develop Cobia here at StillSecure we keep peeling away layers of the onion in the UTM market.  It really is a fascinating market.  So many of the leading solutions have stressed taking open source security solutions and putting a pretty, easy-to-use face on them.  No...

TippingPoint announced their Core Controller appliance today. It is a 10GBPS in line IPS. Actually what it sounds like it is, is a network controller that load balances traffic among several conventional Tipping Point boxes and than puts the flow back together and passes it on.  Sounds cool, bu...

I actually read this earlier this week but did not have a chance to comment. ComputerWorld had this article today that details that Cisco will stop selling its line of PIX firewalls on July 28th of this year.  I don't think this announcement came as a shock to anyone.  They had discontinue...

I have been following the Don "Cutaway" Weber/ Chris Hoff "dialog" around whether UTMs just add complexity and risk to the security equation. Of course the peanut gallery than had to join in.  That Georgia peanut, Mike Rothman puts in his 2 cents and complete with a referenc...