The discovery of a flaw that allows would-be hackers to reuse old security tokens to to access Snapchat services and send bulk messages crippling user’s iPhones (AKA denial-of-service attacks) shows that security problems with Snapchat’s API run deeper than first thought. The flaw was discovered by security researcher Jaime Sanchez earlier this year and highlighted ...

Managing risk is an essential component of any successful security program. But with the deluge of vulnerabilities discovered on a regular basis, it is a never-ending, uphill battle to mitigate all of the risk within an enterprise network or data center. Ironically, some organizations even shy away from scanning or patching critical data center applications and servers because ...

Companies spend millions of dollars to get an edge from the data they own. However, all too often their efforts are out of balance. Data is hoarded without a clear purpose, and not nearly enough time is invested in capturing and analyzing the data about the data: the metadata. The fact of the matter is ...

It’s hard to look at a tech blog these days without seeing something about “continuous” this and “continuous” that. Market pressures and consumer demand are prompting businesses to adopt Continuous Delivery (CD), a design practice used in software development to automate and improve the process of software delivery. Right now, adoption rates for CD are ...

In “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups,” Aileen Lee suggested that only .07 percent of venture-backed consumer and enterprise software startups ever achieve billion-dollar valuations. That’s one in every 1,538 companies that have taken seed funding since 2003. The lesson is that while venture capital produces many singles and doubles, home runs are incredibly rare occurrences. ...

Data lakes and data streams are becoming common analogies in the discussion around analytics and potential enterprise big data strategies. The analogies are appropriate from several aspects beyond just visualizing different approaches to accessing useful information. As in nature, both lakes and streams have their individual characteristics and are each important to the overall ecosystem. The question is not whether one ...

Network Access and Monitoring appliances, or what the market has now christened Network Packet Brokers (NPBs), are currently the hottest sector of the network appliance market since the 1990s dot-com explosion. Last summer saw the successful IPO and billion dollar valuation of Gigamon. Net Optics was picked up a month ago for $190 million in ...

Editor’s Note: “We’re huge fans of open source, as is our guest author Neil Levine, the vice president of Product for Inktank. But it’s not all rose water…here’s Levine’s perspective, who argues that open source is going to find its way into mainstream data centers. Learning from many perspectives, we’d love to hear what you’re doing with ...

by Anne Ward Last week, Box announced their intentions to file for IPO. This comes on the heels of Google’s announcement a couple weeks ago that they will offer one terabyte (TB) of data for only $9.99 a month. Both announcements have had a chilling effect in Silicon Valley and beyond, because it could easily ...

Certified public accountants (CPAs) and tax-preparation firms all over the country are racing against the clock to meet income tax deadlines for their clients. Tax professionals have already filed more than 27.3 million returns this year, and of those about 96 percent have been filed electronically, according to reports from AccountingWeb. For tax professionals during tax season, no ...