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IoT, Internet of Things or Internet of Terror?

Why we all talk about IoT I know that there are a lot of good reasons to love the IoT or IoE (where E stand for everything) idea. I can just highlight a couple: Business and easier life. The business behind IoT The first point is quite clear, the tremendous growth of the Smart devices has create a new business that has gone beyond any analyst prevision. Nowadays it seems that it is impossible to think a world not interconnected. Anyway there are still great areas of improvement in terms of quality of the services provided and the spread of…

Some times they come back

View image | gettyimages.com I wrote a few time ago about double standards in IT security that affect eastern countries’ companies as Chinese Huawei and  ZTE or Russia’s ones  when dealing with western countries. I wrote this effect is quite evident every time you read news on cyber security threats. Guess what… I was reading some news lately and I encounter some statements that make me think (again) about it: Let’s take the FREAK attack as an example. FREAK attack is a security vulnerability that breaks HTTPS protection. The troubles today owe to ‘export grade encryption’ – a deliberately weaker form of encryption baked into products shipped outside of the United States, enforced by the American government. The restrictions were removed…

Are we using a double standard in IT security?

Are we using a double standard in IT security? In the last years Cyber Security has raised as a major concern in any sector of our lives, from government to business and even at private and personal level. But I am wondering if there is a sort of double standard when we judge facts happening when they are related to cybersecurity. Let’s make some example: We all have read concerns rising form the rumoured new rules that china will impose to companies selling IT equipments in some sensitive sector like financial, western expert have raised all so of questions pointing out that…

the hypocrisy of religious extremism

No matter wich side you watch it, religious extremism is always using things to justify its own acts. There is no place for self-criticism, just only God rules as they claim to be. Science is one of the first victim, as well as the freedom of speech and the right to criticism. No other idea can be admitted, just only the truth and righteous one, and of course there are only a few that can show what this truth is. Can be the Koran, the Bible, the Torah and Talmud or the Book of Mormon, we always find someone who…

Charlie Hebdo: I’m with you guys

Let say it straight, what happened yesterday in Paris has been terrible. I do not have the all the words to describe all the feeling I am going through. Rage, sadness, fear, shock … I could not believe it, and still I can’t understand how someone could kill in the name of a god someone else just because of a drowing, a statement, a word… they killed people who dare to express their respect for freedom using pencils and words. There is no justification, and there are not religious beliefs that can justify acts like that one. This is not Islam: the poor policemen…

Je Suis Charlie

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2015 is Here!!!!!

Finally we are at the beginning of a new year, time for hope, time for proposals, time for planning new experiences. So what are mine? 2015 proposals 1) I will work We can say whatever we want, but the truth is that job is a gift those days. The terrible economic crisis of those years leaved a lot of people without a job, people with strong skills and experience have been fired and some have been replaced with younger and not so expensive (but less experienced) people. HP, Cisco, Microsoft a lot of people have been kicked out so have a job…

Security design considerations

In the previous post ()we learned that when planning a security budget we have to deal with hidden costs, assets, process and a good quote of dealing with higher management. The goal is to reach at least the mTCoS as i called it. Now the problem I pointed out is that in order to define this target value we have to asset risks and rank them to be able to make choices. This is a quite interesting topic per se, since it is still object of studies. I have seen several models to address the question, all have pro and…

Security and Risks Updated

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 expenditures have to be planned wisely;  how much I can 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 seemed to be attracted more by strange inner believes than an empirical analysis of cost and benefits. Another point that I’ve always found quite curious is that…

My Open Networker Experience in LinkedIn

My Open Networker Experience in LinkedIn | LinkedIn My Open Networker Experience in LinkedIn Jun 11 2014 210Views 7Likes 3Comments Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Google Plus Share on Twitter Just a few days ago I commented on a very interesting article on LION and open networker from Larry Brauner and this make me think about why I am an Open Networker. Well I have to say that, at the end, being a Open Networker is a personal matter, it’s a mixed feeling of trying to expand your visibility and willing to get in touch with people…

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