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My 0.02p, it cost about £6000/yr to do it cheap. Goes up to £10k/yr with a full time mooring in a marina and outsourced services. Boat pricing comes in a spectrum that very roughly…

I spend 8 months a year on my narrowboat moving around the canals as I hunt for pubs, relaxation and peace. In winter I hibernate in my house, pining for the canals and freedom. Al…

maybe you should pay to go to conferences ?

Delivering this function is very costly, because of stateful inspection you must implement flow sticking which require buffering which then impacts performance ..... and so on and …

A firewall doesn't prevent compromise. An attacker can always reach your Internet connected system, and attack through the firewall. Firewall is useful for protecting servers that …

EAL criteria are so operationally restrictive that useful work is effectively prevented from happening. No one needs worse security, we need better security.

Yep, all IT disciplines have their language. I get the same problem when listening to developers & DevOps spout their lingo.

Heartbleed is far more common on closed crypto software than often. One word: wrong.

Two things: 1. the number is more than 800. 2. NSX is being deployed primarily as a security tool for micro-segmentation. It is displacing firewalls in the data centre is substantl…

Here is my explanation of the East/West & North/South int terms of Data Centre network architecture http://etherealmind.com/layer-2-multipath-east-west-bandwidt...

There are some non-obvious issues: 1. Why not firewall in the operating system and distribute/scale the load evenly ? Centralising the firewall was done when OS provisioning was ba…

Certain corporate companies formed a consortium to prevent encryption to ensure that monetisation of personal information would continue. At the very last stage, the IETF appeared …