Editorials in English

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

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 08/20/2013 Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, News From The World, News in English

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

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…

The unemployed mood

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/17/2013 Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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…

Diary of an acquisition part1

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/31/2012 Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles

Ok I know many of us experienced this kind of trip once in a lifetime. I have travelled acquisition a lot of times, when mondadori informatica was absorbed by the mother comany mondadori, when brightmail become part of symantec, when symantec acquired veritas software and moved all european management to veritas, and at the end when cisco systems acquired Ironport. All acquisitions means change and most of the changes are not well accepted, but I’m a long traveller on the seas of IT company and I’m quite used to changes so what has meant to me an acquisition? The last…

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…

Anonymous vs BART (Simpson?) part2

Antonio Ieranò 08/24/2011 Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, News From The World, News in English

Still I read a lot on Anonymous hacking group, even that they threaten children or declare war against UK for expenditure cuts, also Strauss khan seems to be threatened by Anonymous. Reading news seems that they’re an unstoppable force of nature… I left my thoughts last time on why internet and why now, and why they’re so (in)famous. So about the first point: why internet? If they’re a unstructured movement is natural that they choose, grow and move onto the media that makes communication most easier. The relatively growing of importance of social media, messenger and other communication systems made very easy recruitment and association on the met. We…

Spear Phishing: can it fool me?

Antonio Ieranò 04/21/2011 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Tech Update in English

Image via Wikipedia Recent articles in the news remind me that anyone can be fooled by a good scam. the problem is always the trust we gave to the communication we received. is not just a financial problem (you remember the Madoff scam?) but a problem that can hit anyone, even expert guys can fall.The most recent was the hack occurs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but it is just the last of an infinite series. Also the RSA securID breach was prepared with spear phishing. What is spear phishing? Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets…

SECURITY: Web Browsing infection and protection basics

Antonio Ieranò 01/10/2011 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, My Best Articles, Tech Update in English

As the 2010 ended we learned that it was the most prolific years in terms of malware, new malware and botnets. And also we found out that internet browsing has been the most used vehicle to spread infection and attack.Actually seems not to be an astonishing news, ou contraire, but it is interesting to notice that the focus has shifted from OS related threats to application and browsing vulnerability. this allowed malware to attack new surfaces, virtually any operating systems with internet browsing capabilities is subject and can be target of an attack or an infection: pc, smarthphone, tablet, consoles…

An Amazing New World Wide Green Awareness Campaign

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/27/2010 Editorials, Editorials in English

The Puchi Herald and The World Wide Wasting Time Foundation proudly present a new worldwide campaign to leverage a green environmental awareness to all internet users. After the Well known campaign “Think before you Print” we realized that the main reason people print emails is just that emails are written. No matter how you tell people to not print, there will always be the moron that needs to print everything just because…. So here the idea: how we save the environment and time? Most of the emails you send around are useless, dangerous, or, even worse, boring. “Think before you…

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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.