Cloud & Telecom Security

引子：

观放白鹰二首（李白）
八月边风高，胡鹰白锦毛；
孤飞一片雪，千里见秋毫。

RSA大会一向是网络安全圈子里的大场面，传统上各路老大都会赶来捧场，也作为自己后面一年市场理念、产品技术的首发之地。好，对于到场的老大们就不一一赘述了，我们看看哪些大厂没有来。

缺席的第一家是Oracle。大家知道，Oracle其实已经悄悄成为安全圈子里的实力派，尤其是在2005年购并Oblix、2009年购并Sun以后，其在身份和访问控制IAM领域、数据库安全领域、审计等都有很长的产品线。一方面，Oracle的CEO Larry Ellison经常对云计算冷嘲热讽，一方面在几次展会都看到Oracle在不断推进Oracle的云计算解决方案。一方面，Oracle在迅速发展其网络安全解决方案能力，另一方面Oracle又不“与狼共舞”，来拜RSA的山头。这就叫有个性。期间碰到了几位从Oracle过来的朋友，个人身份参与。

缺席的另外一家是Juniper。Juniper在购并Netscreen后，安全产品行销全球，在FW/IPS/VPN等领域实力强劲，是相关产品评论不能不提的厂商，“地球人没有不知道的”。不知为什么，Juniper对家边上的RSA不对眼。Juniper有Speaker出场，可是不参展。Juniper不到场，肯定不是“差钱”。

华为的缺席也情理之中，又在意料之外。华为-赛门铁克（华赛）在国内也一直以国际行销出名，很多同行以其为国际化的模范。华为不愿与这些充满小资情调、脸上写着盲目自信的展览会同流合污，甚至也不屑参加什么Gartner、什么SC Mag的产品评比。”酒香不怕巷子深“吗！呵呵。

闲话讲完，还是来看看这次大会有什么新鲜内容吧。 Read more…

今天著名安全媒体SCMagzine公布2010年各安全奖项入围名单，最后的大奖将于2010年3月2日在旧金山公布。

从这次的入围名单上看，安全大厂如Cisco,Juniper,Symantec,等成为最大的赢家，到处闪现他们的身影。功夫不负有心人，这次Cenzic, HyTrust,e-DMZ, Palo-Alto等新秀也终于展露头角。BigFix能够获得优秀安全公司入围，你觉得有些惊奇吗？Dave Cullinane凭借云安全联盟CSA的快速成长和成功，荣获最佳CSO/CISO入围。

希望看到我们中国的企业也成为国际战场的逐鹿者！

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Gartner, the leading marketing analysis and strategy firm, released its newly-brew TOP 10 technology list today. They are:

• 1 Cloud computing. Cloud has been the top buzz-term in the past months. Gartner raised it from No.2 at 2009 to TOP1 at 2010.  With no doubt, this statement will be quoted by tons of articles and vendor solutions in the following seasons.
• 2 Advanced analytic.  I would rather explain it as data correlation and data mining tech. This seems to be similar to “business intelligence” (No.9 at 2009).
• 3 Client computing. Mostly client computing is critical for the security impact to the whole Internet.
• 4 Greet IT. It was No.1 at 2008, and No.10 at 2009. Anyway, it’s a concept, containing a lot of technologies, customs, culture, etc.
• 5 Reshaping the data center, with new designs and approaches that include building out incrementally in pod-based approaches, adding only power, chillers and generators to support initial needs.
• 6 Social computing. It has been deeply involved into daily life. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
• 7 Security activity mornitoring.  A variety of complimentary (and sometimes overlapping) monitoring and analysis tools help enterprises better detect and investigate suspicious activity – often with real-time alerting or transaction intervention. Personally,  I think this is similar to the No.2.
• 8 Flash memory. It’s a new face to TOP 10.
• 9 Virtualization for availability. While virtualization has been melted into cloud computing and other diverse areas, Gartner leaves “availability”.
• 10 Mobile applications. No comments at this moment. There have been a lot of developers and app stores you can find at the web. It reflects the hotness. Read more…