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The Tripwire IT Security Incident Top 5 (or is it Bottom 5?) for 2010

by ~Previous Contributers

What are your Top 5 IT Security Events for 2010?
Needless to say, it got the hamster wheel spinning faster than usual. Any time I’ve been asked to cobble together a list of “Top anythings”, it has always been akin to “What are your Top 5 bands or movies?” By that, I mean, they usually change George Costanza-style on the drive home (video) (ohhhhh, I should’ve said ).

With that in mind, here are my Top 5 IT Security Stories/Incidents worthy of consideration in no particular order, with a detailed rationale for each of my choices. Agree? Disagree? Think of one on the drive home? Fire away in the comment section.

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Clouds and Snake Oil

by Dwayne Melancon

At the VMworld conference a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to several customers who are being approached by people who purport to offer magical cloud services that (at least according to the vendors) make life effortless, compliant, secure, and error-free. This is a recurring problem in IT: some hot topic emerges, and lots [...]

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Poll: What’s up with the Cloud thing?

by Dwayne Melancon

Just spent a week at VMworld, and the Cloud buzz (hype?) was everywhere. Between VMware and its partners, all trying to out-Cloud each other, you’d think this was the next best thing since Google. So, my questions are: How will the current Cloud push be different from the ASP model we saw come & go [...]

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Everything old is new again?

by Dwayne Melancon

I was reading up on tech trends for 2009, and stumbled across Network World’s piece on hot technology, and found the section Virtualization: Hot Technology for 2009. For many of us have been dealing with virtualization for years sometimes it doesn’t necessarily feel like it qualifies as new any more.  And, inevitably, the “what’s next” [...]

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Virtualization: Conflicting signals

by Dwayne Melancon

Just catching up on my virtualization news feeds after a week of heavy travel, and I noticed that there are a lot of interesting things going on – mostly involving mixed messages: A well-known research firm, IDC is apparently providing some numbers around virtualization adoption that aren’t sitting well with VMware. They think IDC is [...]

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Hypervisors: Free like a puppy

by Dwayne Melancon

VMware is getting lots of attention this week because they have announced a free hypervisor. This, following Microsoft’s disruptive pricing of $28 per hypervisor (which is free relative to the typical IT budget, I suppose). What does this mean? It means that many more enterprises are likely to jump on the virtualization bandwagon (a good [...]

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