The blame game is a tricky effort these days. Maybe its part of the problem, not the solution. I cringed at many of the comments made across this year’s political theater. It seemed every other “b… | Continue reading
Eerie discoveries in thin substance research fuel speculation about what comes after silicon. Is free energy around the corner? Last year a highly respected technologist (and friend) told me “… | Continue reading
Network Effects are Powerful Since the early days of TCP/IP, connectivity has created waves of multi-billion-dollar markets, seemingly out of thin air. All of the successes have had one thing in co… | Continue reading
Attack Vectors in the… Trillions? The growing attack surface of the new industry 4.0 internet is a big problem. On this everyone agrees. But underneath the headlines and the frequent “patch now” wa… | Continue reading
Everything is Connected In 5 years there will be 75 billion devices connected to the internet, perhaps a few billion insecure and unpatchable. An estimated 2 billion run VxWorks and perhaps a coup… | Continue reading
Right after we celebrate the birthdays of two of the most destructive cyber attacks ever launched (WannaCry and NotPetya) a disturbing VxWorks advisory is issued for billions of IoT devices, and pe… | Continue reading
The advantages of digitalization are well documented and understood, especially in health care. Patients, for example, benefit when their doctors can access critical data by simply plugging a devi… | Continue reading
Microsoft released a patch update to… Windows XP? What’s up with that? Here are highlights from Ars Technica ( Dan Goodin) augmented with recent commentary: Microsoft is warning that the Internet … | Continue reading
Or The Zero Trust Graveyard… your choice. I just glanced through an analyst report on “zero trust” and noted the sizable eco-system of startups and security cartel players who have all manage… | Continue reading
Gabe is Back In the heady days of massive network infrastructure growth there was a single analyst who knew the vendors cold. And all of us on the Wall Street briefing circuit knew Gabe Lowy. Gabe… | Continue reading
So much has changed since the creation of the TCP/IP stack. Work on the stack began in 1973 and the first public WAN was initiated in 1982 (see this timeline for a great point of reference). About … | Continue reading
Watching the strategic and near perfect strategic pivot VMware has made since its failed IaaS venture has been nothing short of awe-inspiring. Very few companies can make such a shift hence the gr… | Continue reading
Money money money money. Money. A recent report on cyber attacks covered in ComputerWeekly found friendly terrain for hackers within the perimeter of internal banking networks. In other words, onc… | Continue reading