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Live Security Showcase from PCCW
We are having a blackhat-like event in Hong Kong today and tomorrow. Our security guru from PCCW team are running the Live Security event in Taikoo Place, Hong Kong. Why I say this is a blackhat-like event ? The hacking team from PCCW has done a very sexy LIVE hacking demonstration to around 80 guests as the grand opening :) By using the simple toolkits that you can download from internet or buy from small computer center in China, PCCW hacker team demonstrated how easy to crack the Wireless LAN WEP password, stealing password from careless user by Phishing email, hijacking the target… Read More »
Cisco CSIRT Presents at SplunkLive Raleigh
Last Thursday Dave Schwartzburg and a few other Cisco security mavens attended SplunkLive Raleigh. The Cisco Computer Security Investigation Team (CSIRT) has been a applying Splunk to corporate security investigations for more than two years now and Dave was generous enough to share their experiences with us all. Joining Cisco presenting at the event was James Ervin of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a very knowledgeable Splunk customer. Patrick Ogden, Splunk Sales Engineer gave a rocking good demo of transaction tracing in a telco provisioning environment and Will Hayes, Splunk… Read More »
Splunk in the NOC at Interop
For those of you checking out Interop NYC at the Javits Center next week, be sure to hit up the Splunk booth #346 for schwag and a demo of the latest 4.06 hotness. Splunk support engineer extraordinaire Deep Bains will be building and projecting dashboards in the NOC to track what's happening at the show. In the past we've identified network latencies and dictionary attacks. What will happen this year? If you haven't registered yet, you can get a free expo pass or $300 off your conference pass with this code: CNLUNY05. The offer is good until November 15. And as always, I want to hear your… Read More »
Chad’s Army
I stumbled upon this unexpected post from Chad Sakac of EMC talking about the VMware/EMC/Cisco collaboration. For anyone who has spent their career on the start-up track in Silicon Valley this is not a novel story. Isn't it fantastic to see some large companies still have the mojo of entrepreneurship and fast moving initiatives that survive outside of the normal organizational structure? While it remains to be seen how successful VCE, Acadia and Vblock will be, it sure is exciting to have the industry talking about radically new approaches to simplify computing! Here is a great post… Read More »
Cisco uses Splunk. The CSIRT Team and a Prestigious University will share their Splunk stories–live from Raleigh, Next week: Thurs Nov 12
Join us at the Marriott RTP next Thursday, November 12 for SplunkLive. Two more of our coolest customers will showcase how they're using Splunk in their IT environments. The oldest state university is using Splunk for all the basics - log consolidation, email tracing, operational troubleshooting and as a SIEM in conjunction with IDS and IPS tools. Learn how the university is using Splunk to enhance operational effectiveness, and how one system administrator built the case to fund and deploy Splunk across the largest IT group in the university. We'll also hear from Cisco's CSIRT (Security… Read More »
Serendipity is….
"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter " - Julius Comroe I just read the quote in a presentation from Matt Jones of BERG at the DXf conference. There is so much i love about this presentation i don't know where to start. Just click through it ( embedded below ) and have your own reaction. It's clearly designed to be a fun/light read. I think I clicked at about one slide per few seconds. Then went back and stopped on a few that really spoke to me. It was entertainment that made me think which then made me smile. At its heart, splunk is a time… Read More »