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Friday, August 7, 2015

That's a Wrap from #F5Agility15

Our video partners at cloud-channel.tv, put together a nice wrap up #F5Agility15 from Washington DC. Special thanks to F5’s Manny Rivelo, Ken Salchow, Joe Pruitt and Tony Hynes along with VMware’s Jared Cook. Also want to thank the F5 Studio and a huge thanks to the many attendees for a wonderful week! And as always, Mahalo to you for watching. Reporting from National Harbor MD, That’s a Wrap!

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

GartnerDC 2014 – Hybrid is the New Normal (feat. Haynes)

Robert Haynes, F5 Marketing Solutions Architect, digs in about hybrid infrastructures. We got hybrid cars, hybrid corn, hybrid clouds and hybrid data centers and Robert discusses the state of today’s data center deployments and how organizations, based on business needs, are using various application delivery platforms, including cloud, to provide reliable, resilient & available applications. Really, how does IT work with departments to deliver a standard set of services? Find out here.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

F5 Agility Summit 2012 - Infoblox

I meet with Infoblox's Senior Product Manager, Andy Voltmer about the F5/Infoblox partnership, the importance of DNS and the security around DNSSEC. Reporting from the F5 Agility Conference in Times Square.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Multiscreen Multitasking

Talk about killing two birds with one stone - according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report, more Americans on their phones while watching TV. About half of U.S. mobile phone owners use their devices while watching TV, a new study suggests. While most (38%) are clicking away as a commercial filler, many are enhancing their viewing experience by interacting along with the program.

About 23% of cellphone users exchange text messages with their friends about the same show they are simultaneously watching on TV; around 20% of them visit websites mentioned on TV; 22% used their phone to check whether something they heard on television was true; 11% of cellphone owners use their devices to read what others are writing online about a particular television program; another 11% posts comments on online boards using their cellphones; and 6% used their phone to vote for a reality show contestant. Both men and women equally are glued to their smartphone while watching TV with the 18-24 age bracket leading the way (81%), followed by the 25-34 group (72%).

The massive growth of smartphones and how we use them is infiltrating every aspect of our lives. The most basic task of making a phone call seems miniscule compared to the many other things we do with smartphones. Our personal devices are also becoming the primary mobile device we use for work with all the BYOD initiates being implemented. It’s also clear that with all the other tasks and activities we use our smartphones for, providing a solid BYOD policy within an organization is important to keeping corporate resources safe. Not sure how I turned the results of a TV survey into a BYOD challenge but there you have it. And somehow the famous words of Homer Simpson now have much more meaning, ‘Then we figured out we could park them in front of the TV. That's how I was raised, and I turned out TV.’

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Friday, June 29, 2012

In 5 Minutes or Less Video - IP Intelligence Service

I show you how to configure the IP Intelligence Service available on BIG-IP v11.2, in 5 Minutes or Less. By identifying relevant IP addresses and leveraging intelligence from cloud-context security solutions, F5's new IP Intelligence service combines valuable information on the latest threats with the unified policy enforcement capabilities of the BIG-IP application delivery platform. Deployed as part of the BIG-IP system, F5’s IP Intelligence service leverages data from multiple sources to effectively gather real-time IP threat information and block connections with those addresses. The service reveals both inbound and outbound communication with malicious IP addresses to enable granular threat reporting and automated blocking, helping IT teams create more effective security policies to protect their infrastructures.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Will BYOL Cripple BYOD?

Don’t ya love all the acronyms we have?

So by now, you’ve probably heard that BYOD means Bring Your Own Device – a topic that is getting lots of press these days. The concept of allowing employees to use their own personal device, often mobile, for work related tasks. This could reduce the overall expenditure for IT issued devices and many organizations feel users are happier and more productive when they are using the device of their desire. There could be a snag however when it comes to licensing. Does BYOD also require Bring Your Own License? In many instances, this is an area that IT needs to keep an eye on and often the answer is yes.

Some of the most common enterprise software licensing agreements require licensing any device used "for the benefit of the company" under the terms of the enterprise agreement. That often means that all those BYO devices will require a license to access common corporate applications. This also means that even if the user already has a particular license, which they purchased on their own or it came with the device, the organization might still need to license that device under their enterprise software agreement. This could diminish any cost savings from the BYOD initiative.

There are solutions to such as using alternative products that are not restricted by licensing but, those may not have the key features required by your workforce. Another idea is to move primarily to virtualization for provisioning apps with restrictive client access licenses. Some software licenses require one CAL per concurrent connection, some require one CAL for each unique client regardless of concurrency and some do not require CALs at all. IT needs to understand if their situation is per-user or per-device and what impact that may have on a BYOD policy.

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Monday, June 18, 2012

The Exec-Disconnect on IT Security

Different Chiefs give Different Security Stories.

A recent survey shows that there is a wide gap between CEOs and Chief Security Officers when it comes to the origin and seriousness of security threats. They differ on how they view threats to IT Infrastructure and remain far apart on how to best address an issue that according to analyst reports, costs organizations more than $30 billion annually. The survey of 100 CEOs and 100 CISO (or other C-levels with security responsibility), shows that the discrepancy is often due to lack of communication. 36% of CEOs said that they never get a security report from their CISO and only 27% receive updates on a regular basis. Is it the CISO that doesn’t report back or the CEO that is not interested? Let’s look at some more data.

The CISO felt that the biggest threat was from internal (their employees) due to lack of education and attention while the CEO felt that the biggest threat was from the outside, such as phishing attacks. Thus, 61% of CEOs said they did have enough time and resources to adequately train the staff on how to mitigate threats while Only 27% of CISOs felt the same. It’s opposite day. When asked if their IT systems were ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ under attack without their knowledge, 58% of CISOs said yes while only 26% of CEOs agreeing. The chasm grows. What percentage of each, do you think, said they were very concerned about their IT systems getting hacked? 30 seconds on the clock, please. Don’t peek. Only 15% of CEOs and ‘only’ 62% of CISOs are anxious about breaches. 15%? That’s it? Maybe they have great confidence in their security team…or, they don’t have the information. 65% of CEOs admitted to not having the sufficient data needed to interpret how security threats translate to overall business risk. Wow, the very day-to-day operations. Granted, the CEO is further removed from the specific threats and how they are handled but there is clearly a distance between how each views threats and the company’s ability to successfully mitigate them.

Lack of interest or lack of understanding/information? Probably both. An old adage was that a great boss hired people who were good at the things he/she wasn’t so good at. Surround yourself with those who know their areas better. Or maybe there is a culture that you don’t alert the top unless it’s dire, critical or unstoppable. Communication or interest, it is evident that the C-suite isn’t really talking about these critical business issues especially when 3 times as many CEOs worried about losing their jobs following an attack than did CISOs.

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