Today I was working on a Flex application which uses a lot of Remoting calls to a bunch of ColdFusion CFC methods. I wondered what the most efficient way of securing these methods would be since they are effectively wide open to the world as they all (have to) specify access=”remote”. This means that anyone [...]

Cloud computing has become the standard form of deploying large-scale web applications. Recently, I was asked about a servicing a start-up web service that projects itself having the type of user base and bandwidth that only a Cloud could properly serve. The issue at hand is scalability: should the site start with a minimal Cloud [...]

Software crackers who make money breaking other people’s software don’t usually get rich from their skills. With the release of iDefense Labs report on Emerging Economic Models for Vulnerability Research, this may be changing.

When recommending penetration testing for a corporate network the first question is usually, ”Why would we need penetration testing?” The first answer is, if you don’t they will. Everyday malicious and sometimes just overly curious people use their computers to run automated testing scripts that look for system vulnerabilities to record and potentially later exploit. Sometimes the [...]

If you’re reading this, odds are you are under attack. Your Web server is being crushed under the extraordinary load of thousands or even millions of bogus requests. How do you deal with it? Before we jump into that, a quick definition, courtesy of Wikipedia:

IBM has announced it has acquired network automation software firm Intelliden and will integrate the company’s technology into its Tivoli Software. Financial terms of the purchase were not released.

Late last week provided a glimpse of where many network experts hope Cisco will be throughout 2010 -in the black. While most companies where floundering at a sharp nose dive in the stock market, Cisco stayed strong and provided a bright forecast for the rest of 2010. The most important bit of news from all [...]

Few days ago WaveMaker announced profitability, showing an increase on sales by over 53% in the latest quarter, eventually showing the world that the cloud is a given, and not a prediction. Chris Keene, WaveMaker CEO, gave me some background information on how the WaveMaker open source framework later became an open cloud development platform.

The current economic climate is in an odd place right now. Early in 2009, we were in a state of shock and for some, despair. The words ‘recession’ and ‘fallout’ were commonplace, and as the year wore on things didn’t look to get better. The more I read of predictions in 2010, the more optimistic [...]

Many people have written that cloud computing will become pervasive in the enterprise and I certainly agree. Recently, I spoke with Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Chief Strategist at Software AG and author of the Wiley book “SOA Adoption for Dummies” about how mature organizations can best adopt cloud computing. We also covered some related [...]