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E-mail requirements change for a safe use in the post PRISM internet

Antonio Ieranò 08/21/2013 AI Tech Update, Editorials, My Best Articles, News From The World, News in English, Tech Update in English

Recently is mounting a serious concern about e-mail use and misuse, after PRISM the question is if e-mail can still be used as a safe communication media both for personal and enterprise use. This is a difficult question since e-mail has always been a low security- high risk area in the enterprise as well as in the private world. When talking about mail we should remember what email really is: Email is a simple method to transfer information from a computer to another, the used protocol SMTP is a plain text protocol that pass all the information in clear text….

Digging it up on Security Costs and Security Budgets – part1

Antonio Ieranò 07/26/2013 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Tech Update in English

In my previous article, security costs and security budget, I made some assumption to simplify an introductory analysis on how much we should spend on security. Some of those assumptions have been made to simplify out tasks. Today I would like to quickly analyse some of those simplifications. One of the biggest assumption I made on the previous article is that if a problem cost us X then we can find a number n that express the number of incidents I’m allowed to permit so that nX can express the cost I’m allowed to accept. This simplification was based on…

Security Costs and Security Budgets

Antonio Ieranò 07/25/2013 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Tech Update in English

When I’m talking about security with customers, partners or at an event the first question I usually receive is: “how much this will cost to me?” This is an understandable question, costs have to be monitored and expenditure have to be planned wisely, the problem of how much I canshould spend on security is a quite interesting topic. The problem, alas, is that usually IT managers do not use a clear model when planning investment in security but seamed to be attracted more by strange inner believes than a empirical analysis of cost and benefits. Another point that I’ve always found quite curious is that I’ve…

Is Big C missing the point on security?

Antonio Ieranò 07/23/2012 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Tech Update in English

Big company are really suited for security? This is what comes to my mind when we see what Cisco, HP and Co. do when we talk about security. Are they really able to focus on the innovation and development that security require? I can talk about what I know so i will express my mixed feeling about Cisco and Security. For long times Cisco has not been perceived as a big player in the security space, beside the fact PIXASA is the most sold firewall in the world. But honestly we should not only consider the magnitude of the numbers but also why and how companies buy a product. Alas…

Kiss to you my new friend

Antonio Ieranò 05/08/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

Let’s follow a new spam saga 🙂 I juzt recieved a new spam message and now i’ll show you all bits and bytes 🙂 and of course we can continue publishing if you suggest me an answer cheers —–Original Message—– —–Internet Headers—– Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from xxx-xxx-xxx.xxxxx.xxx([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by xxx-xxs-xx.xxx.xxx with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 8 May 2012 15:41:52 +0200 Received: from xxx-xxx-xxx.xxxxx.xxx([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by xxx-xxx-xxx.xxx.xxx with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 8 May 2012 15:41:52 +0200 Received: from mtv-iport-4.cisco.com ([173.36.130.15]) by xbh-rcd-301.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 8 May 2012 08:41:49 -0500 X-Files: 2062888s.jpg : 60599 Received: from…

ISE basic installation and configuration. Part 2

Antonio Ieranò 03/27/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

When something can go wrong it will, at the end our friend Murphy was right. So I passed the day to to solve a weird problem, and I have to thanks a couple of colleagues of mine that were able to sort out what was wrong. By the way at the end I survived the effort and after a whole day of troubleshooting I just reinstalled the appliance from scratch and everything worked. The Web Interface Now we can go on and see what we can do. open a supported browser and go to: http://<IP address or host name>/admin/…

ISE basic installation and configuration. Part 1

Antonio Ieranò 03/26/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

Ok since I have to do some activity on ISE I think would be nice to write a little journal that can be also used as a quick guideline. ISE is the acronym for Identity Service Engine, an identity policy manager released by cisco, now in version 1.1 available also on cisco cco website. It comes in different format, as appliances or as virtual machine on VMware, as well as as upgrade to other cisco engine. I will not look at the other release I will play a bit with the appliance. The Software Upgrade First of all I have…

ise training day 3

Antonio Ieranò 03/21/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

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Ise Training day 2

Antonio Ieranò 03/20/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

Ok my turn to talk today: We talked about one of the most interesting features of ISE, profiling. Worth to explain a little what profiling is, and what discovery and classification means. it is a very useful and powerful engine but it needs to be understood, also on what it means and why should be used. other great new, finally ise 1.1 is available on CCO, worth the upgrade absolutely. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.1/release_notes/ise1.1_rn.html new stuffs: – Support for IOS Sensor for advanced features and remote profiling on the switch. – Active scan with NMAP. – A new portal guest type Device Registration…

Today ISE training day 1

Antonio Ieranò 03/19/2012 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

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Antonio Ieranò Evangelist, Manager, BDM, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Coach HOME: Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 29, 27010 Vistarino (Pavia) Italy. Mobile phone: +39 347 9293757 E-mail: antonio.ierano@ierano.it; Twitter: @ antonioierano @thepuchiherald Web: http://ierano.it I am an IT professional Manager, BDM, marketing specialist, and tech evangelist with over 16 years of experience serving as a community liaison, subject matter expert, and high-profile trainer for key technologies and solutions. My experience includes acting as the public face of Cisco security technologies; leading pan-European technical teams in development of new Cisco security products; and serving as a key public speaker and trainer on behalf of new high-tech products. My expertise spans IT development and implementation, marketing strategy, legal issues, and budget / financial management. Specialties and Executive Expertise IT Strategy, Technical Audits, Enterprise Architecture & Applications, Technical Sales Liaison, Solution Architecture, Network Design, Architecture, & Security, Vulnerability Assessment & Management, Systems Engineering, TCP / IP, Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategy, Budget Management, Consultative Sales, Social Media Marketing, High-Impact Presentations, Security and Technical Advisor: I have a strong experience and knowledge in the technology and security areas, I can provide the needed expertise to better direct technical needs, giving indication for cost effective, solid and efficient solutions. Project Management: with a solid background with project delivered with success in different areas I can provide a key support to drive customer projects to success. With a Microsoft Solution Framework background and PMI solid knowledge mixed with communication skills at any level i can lead the project group and it's stakeholders to achieve the desired goals. Business Developement and Marketing: With a deep knowledge of the extended EMEA technology market needs a focus on worldwide security I can drive business developement to a solid and reliable growth being able to relate with all the stakeholders, from production to sales and channel and, of course, customers.