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Re: How to Persuade Anyone of Anything in Ten Seconds

ckensek — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:22:14 -0000

I'd like the pseudo science stripped out of this. Then I'll look at again.

Re: Is it OK to Cheat Airlines if it Saves You Money?

ckensek — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:42:11 -0000

Sorry, United. Someone wanted to find a less expensive flight to SF. Getting off the plane early rather than going to Seattle solved that problem. You had the option of letting someone (assuming there was someone) on standby for that leg of the flight get on, which would have let you fill that seat (twice) and then free up a seat for the next flight that that person would have been on.

Re: Network security spend on steady growth curve - Forrester

ckensek — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:04:00 -0000

True - I haven't seen the forecasts for the adoption of virtual desktops in awhile.

Re: Getting Suckered by GoPro Yields 3 Lessons in Value Based Pricing

ckensek — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:23:52 -0000

They do need some better support people in shipping. I put in an order and after several days, discovered that they had not even begun to process it. I dealt with a surfer dude who sounded as if he been sucked under one two many waves. He couldn't even get my name straight.

Re: Target aftermath: are we safer one year later?

ckensek — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:01:47 -0000

We don't appear to be much safer. In fact, we're probably more vulnerable as hackers spread their efforts to smaller companies (than the enterprise and into different verticals). Look at all the retail outlets' networks that hackers have broken into. In a strange irony, Sony is investing in FireEye equipment, which Target wasn't utilizing properly when their network got hacked.

Re: HP signs deal with Trend Micro

ckensek — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:28:02 -0000

Dateline - September 2010 HP to buy ArcSight for $1.5 billion http://www.scmagazine.com/h... In the article, "Mike Rothman, president of research firm Securosis, said there are rumors that Symantec, Check Point or Trend Micro could be next" Trend Micro has "always" been rumored to be in play as a Cisco or HP acquisition candidate. .With the other rumor being that the Trend Micro troika didn't want to relinquish their positions. craig kensek

Re: Breach, what breach? Indifference to data security among execs

ckensek — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:39:14 -0000

This may be true until the data breach involves consumer data, credit card numbers, pins, etc. Then the major press starts and the class action suits. Hello, Target, among others.

Re: Palo Alto's NSS pay-to-play accusations dead wrong

ckensek — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:44:16 -0000

Gotta luv it. You like a test group when you perform well and question their techniques when you don't. That said, I have been in situations where we felt that they NSS had messed up some of their using our product during testing (yes, we had paid), but they weren't letting us behind the curtain to see what they had done. Perhaps it would be useful if they requested (and they may be doing this) advise from others, on how to best test the products. This would be outside of asking the vendors themselves, though their input could be useful.

Re: Symantec directly targeting EMC's 800-lb gorilla Data Domain

ckensek — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:35:26 -0000

Informative article. It's funny seeing Symantec calling anyone an 800 pound gorilla given their own size in some markets.

Re: Welcome to the new Channelnomics

ckensek — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:30:07 -0000

A brighter format. However, the more minimalist structure of the previous one made it much easier to skim. Also, much of my reading is determined by who is writing the article. I don't see how to do that. Lots of pictures = lots of scrolling = too much time.

Re: Facebook goes down: Social network hit by global outage

ckensek — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:12:31 -0000

Come on Zuck, and the FB PR department. Man up. What happened?

Re: Why FireEye (FEYE) Stock Is Up Today

ckensek — Mon, 19 May 2014 13:26:09 -0000

Rick Sherlund mustn't have read NSS Labs Breach Detection Report where FireEye did not receive a "Recommended" rating and finished last on NSS Labs' value map (publicly available). Both FireEye and AhnLab, the two companies not receiving a recommended rating, published their issues with the test methodology.

Re: Must read: Google uses combination of third party AV & internal scanning solutions

ckensek — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:23:06 -0000

It's been "known" for awhile that Google partners (in a manner of speaking with AV vendors) A handful of them put out a press release awhile ago about working with Google.

Re: 65% of all email gets opened first on a mobile device -- and that's great news for marketers | VentureBeat | Mobile | by J. O'Dell

ckensek — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:09:26 -0000

I mustn't be the norm. Unless I recognize the sender, I'll almost never open an email on my smartphone. From a marketing perspective, I would think that % opened would vary greatly by the vertical market sending it with consumer goods being the highest (retail clothing, etc).

Re: Are Security Expectations Unrealistic? Target’s Data Breach In Perspective

ckensek — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:23:38 -0000

It appears as Target's IT department is/was behind the curve and had inadequate DLP protection and protection against Advanced Persistent Threats and Advanced Malware. Does this justify these major suits? Probably not, unless identify thefts start occurring. These people are going to have to be made whole, plus. Target was way to slow to respond (be transparent) when this incident occurred. They completely failed crisis management 101 and are now making "some" efforts to make amends. I would imagine that any vendors that market solutions for what I mentioned in my first sentence have already called Target. They need to bring some of these in for testing.

Re: Interview Questions: Hiring Experts Reveal Their Favorites

ckensek — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:33:32 -0000

I have to mention a quote from Stanford Business School professor Bob Sutton - "Passion is an overrated virtue in organizational life and indifference is an underrated virtue." What if a person's passion in business disappears? Does he/she discover a new one? And if that's easily done, does that make the person promiscuous in their ability to be passionate about something? Bad interview question. Unlike.

Re: The Ghosts of Marketing Past, Present & Future [Infographic]

ckensek — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:13:59 -0000

So the future of marketing is to become more invasive? Thin line between personalized experience and being silently invasive.

Re: Dividend Strategies of Information Security Companies for Overseas Expansion

ckensek — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:06:19 -0000

The product introduced in the US is under the name AhnLab Malware Defense System (MDS).- Craig Kensek AhnLab US

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ckensek — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:17:01 -0000

"It's been done before......" It's safe. Read some alternative thoughts in "Weird Ideas that Work" by Robert Sutton. The "No A...hole rule" is a great read.

Re: The Crash of Asiana Flight 214 and the Virtues of Government Oversight

ckensek — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:15:09 -0000

Ultimately, it will probably be deemed pilot error. It's incredible how the airlines and airports go into damage control on these. I was in my seat on a plane at SFO, ready to take off, at the time of the crash. . The flight attendants made an announcement that everyone should leave the plane and take their items with her. I commented to the attendant, "the weather is beautiful. This can't be good." She replied, "No". From the windows of the terminal you could see black smoke billowing, but the airport was saying nothing.

Re: The Chinese hacking empire: Don’t believe the hype

ckensek — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:08:29 -0000

A couple of interesting bites - "the frustration the government is having with contractors and sub-contractors having classified information stolen" and the fact that "determining who is behind a cyber-attack is famously difficult"

For the first - the government needs to set strong standards regarding security measures any potential contractor has to have in place to do business with the government.
For the second one, where a theft appears to have originated from, means little, given how laptops and servers can be taken over as "bots" from anywhere.

Re: Google Adding Hacked Site Notifications to Search Results

ckensek — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:31:04 -0000

Interesting, AVG Technologies offers LinkScanner with its products and as a free download. The same holds true for McAfee and SiteAdvisor. Webroot purchased PrevX a couple of months ago. PrevX provides somewhat the same kind of protection. Does this mean "double protection" when using Google for searches? I would imagine that there won't be any noticeable slowdown in surfing. Time will tell who the surfer trusts, if the messages it receives about the site are in conflict. Also, are Google's ratings "real-time"? Some of the other vendors promote that their's are (even though some mention accessing a database) craig kensek

Re: Home Anti-Virus is Completely Free, as it should be | Latest Security News | GSO - Network Security Resources

ckensek — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:30:17 -0000

In a review of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 in October (when that release came out), PC Magazine preferred AVG to Microsoft Security Essentials.

Re: LAPTOP Magazine - Product reviews, tech news, buying guides, and more

ckensek — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:30:26 -0000

AVG LinkScanner cannot run on Macs, yet. It's coming shortly. The current linkscanner solution is at www.linkscanner.avg.com It's free for consumers to use on a home/non business basis. Currently AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is licensed for personal/home use.

Re: There's a Virus Going Around

ckensek — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:31:47 -0000

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