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Look what I found

While digging some pictures for my website i found a few old certifications of mine, the old MCP one, the MCT MCSE that state since 1996, even the Cisco Ironport Certification (I used to be a trainer) and the old ASE and ACT compaq certification. Geez I feel so old. in the same dig i were trying to find pictures of my previous job activities but I’m afraid I were not able to find anything. But at least I found a few old business card, I have never been a huge fan of Business Cards so it was quite a…

Good Bye Madiba

    Sad news yesterday night when I listen you passed away. We ought you a lot. Nelson Mandela has been not only a symbol, but a living example of how man should be.   A hero, yes, mostly because he gave his life to a cause: all men need to be judged by their actions not their color. I’m sure we’re millions now we write about his death, as we were millions waiting to know what where happening when he was in the hospital.       Madiba you’ve been a Giant among Men, also compared to the righteous ones, so…

Foretelling: Will Crystal Balls Run On Android?

  TECHNOLOGY   Foretelling: Will Crystal Balls Run On Android?   By Antonio Ieranò on November 3, 2013 at 10:22 AM   It is always good to take a look at the people in the metro or train to get a better sense of the impact of technology in our lives. Consumers’ rapidly evolving and new tastes become apparent, a process that should interest anyone with some interest in where we are headed. Until not very long ago, it was common to see few commuters reading newspapers or magazines while most stood up trying not sleep. Today things have changed. The expansion…

Wanted Dead or Alive: The Human Factor

TECHNOLOGY originally published on DaftBlogger.com Wanted Dead or Alive: The Human Factor By Antonio Ieranò on September 29, 2013 at 7:45 PM Contents [hide] 1 From where should we start? 2 I said it all but… 3 Theory? OK I confess I am quite bored to listen to all those knowledgeable IT security experts talking about what is needed to secure a system. Everyone has his own point of view; of course they’re right when they say we need end-point security, mobile protection, anti-malware, anti-hacking, dlp, advance threat defense and protection. We all know we need firewalls, IPSIDS, cypher encryption systems, SSO, 802.1x, strong authentication, anti-virus, anti-everything,…

PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies

PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT CompaniesTECHNOLOGY PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies By Antonio Ieranò on August 31, 2013 at 7:17 PM Contents [hide] 1 Could we have anticipated this? 2 Security is a trust based affair 3 Cloud considerations 4 Privacy and encryption 5 Conclusion Every day new information emerges on the extension of NSA’s PRISMprogram. We discovered that e-mail, phone calls, services, even conference systems have been cracked and gone under illegal surveillance. We also learned that the NSA paid US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, AOLto allow this and when this was not possible resources were brutally hacked. Related articles The death of the cloud has…

is Free and investigative Journalism in danger?

I live in a country, Italy, where journalism is not a synonymous of freedom, objectivity or courage. In the past we have had great journalists able to put their life at the service of a profession that require total dedication, but today the market offer really a few example of journalism, most are just “the voice of the boss” as mr. Sallusti or mr. Belpietrto. I always seen that outside there were great journalists, free and brave ones. Journalists able to fight and find scandals or inconvenient truths, and this was accepted and even defended by their governments who considered…

Groklaw forced to close, another piece of freedom is leaving internet

Here I usually don’t copy other blogs article, but i will make an exception to this one that comes from an historical free blog Groklaw. is sad to read this blog article and knowing this is the last one, this is a sad moment for the internet, our capability to freely express our ideas is in great danger. Government have always tried to shut down or control the internet, we were clearly worried about china, north corea and even russia, but now PRISM made everything worse. But when  Journalists like Barret Brown risk 100 years in prison in USA, or…

Digging it up on Security Costs and Security Budgets – part1

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

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…

The unemployed mood

Today is not really an happy day. Although I’m fighting to find reason for a good mood is not always easy to smile when you’re still fighting to find a job, the economic situation is not nice and perspective are even worse. What can  a 47 guy looking  for a position do? They say that if this not kills you make you stronger, wish it is the truth but there are days where you feel as you live in the wrong world. I spent a lot of my life trying to be one of the best in what I do, and…

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