Sun Microsystems (via the opensolaris.org project) released its encryption key management technology as open source. The offered toolkit allows developers and manufacturers of storage devices to write applications which will work together with the Sun Microsystems Crypto KMS (KMS stands for “Key Management System“). The Crypto KMS is an appliance
Month: March 2009
Monitoring Solutions Matrix
The choice of a monitoring solution is not easy! Free or commercial, required features, agentless or agent based, security aspects, etc… There are so many requirements that it’s difficult to find the best solution. I found a page on Wikipedia with a comparison of well-know monitoring solutions. It’s not complete,
Unsafe Customer Data!
I received the following e-mail yesterday. It came from a Belgian e-commerce website. It’s a company active in a very specific out-door activity (no name here, but if they are other customers reading my blog, they will for sure recognize the format). The customer base is restricted (but international). Sorry
Keep an Eye on SSH Forwarding!
OpenSSH is a wonderful tool box. The main purpose is to establish encrypted connections (SSH means Secure SHell) on a remote UNIX machine and, once authenticated, to spawn a shell to perform remote administration. Running on port 22 (default), the client (ssh) and the server (sshd) exchange encrypted information (what