Cloud & Telecom Security

Sept.16 2009, NSFocus, a leading information security company from China, got EAL3 certificate from the authority organization – ITSEC. This is the only NIPS product which gets EAL 3 certificate issued by ITSEC so far. The certificate, in conjunction with other certificates that NSFocus has gotten and is working on, is helping the company enhance its leadership at NIPS/NIDS market at China, even at Asia-Pacific area. Click here to see the news report in Chinese. Read more…

转帖一篇程苓峰先生的文章，很欣赏作者辐射出的热情和感染力，PC的普及、互联网的普及、云服务的萌芽和迅速成长的确给了很多个人、公司、组织、地区等很多机遇。 Read more…

In general, security market has a wide range of products and services. It consists of products (FW,IDS/IPS,VPN,UTM,SOC,4A,etc.) and services, e.g. Risk Assessment, Managed Security Services(including monitoring,etc.) , consulting services for Cobit/ITIL/ISO/IATF, solutions, system hardening, penetration testing, management , training etc.

We have a hard time selling our services. Because Chinese customers have a low recognition of the services unlike the westerners do. In their mind, services should be free if I have bought your product and you should do the rest of that. On the other hand, services aren’t unified and standardized. Customers won’t pay much money for it . That’s the problem.

Howerver security services are a promising market. No one is willing to lose this market, you’d better keep an eye on this always. Some day in the near future some kinds of services will come up. Security services will end up in the form of products in China market. Actually lots of company have done this in advance.

The world is changing quickly. It’s pleasure to see that China is now regarded as a major influence force of the whole world. That’s also true at the IT industry.

According to the report ,China is the fast-growing smartphone market. Furthermore, China has much more mobile phone subscribers than any other country in the world. Read more…

From insiders, the largest mobile carrier – China Mobile has got the first 3G license at China. Surely, it’s TD-SCDMA.  It’s said that this betrays the determination of China government to respect the self intellectual property and encourage China enterprises to develop their own technologies.

TD-SCDMA is one of the three major 3G international standards, submitted by China enterprises.

It’s reported that China Telecom will get CDMA2000 and China Unicom will get WCDMA soon.

CNCERT released the first half year security report of 2008. You can download this report (pdf) at there official website.

An interesting point from the report is the geographic distribution of controller computers of botnets at China. According to the investigation of CNCERT, roughly 98230 computers abroad were discovered to be controlling the botnet at China, which means a 26.4% growth against 2007. The IP addresses of those controllers are from: Read more…

It’s reported that Rising damaged users‘ Outlook Express.

Rising is the largest anti-virus vendor based at China. It just began its globalization journey by tapping Japan market.

The incident was firstly report at Nov.7. The Rising anti-virus software – Kaka was found to kill the Outlook Express folders as virus files.

Rising has apologized to their users for this wrong operation and promised to correct this and help users to recover their files.

It’s another outstanding wrong operation of anti-virus vendors after Symantec at May.18, 2007.

看完皓月所写的“防火墙、UTM产品OEM第三方产品或嵌入第三方反病毒引擎的利弊分析”，掩卷而思，这些观点印证了前些天和朋友们探讨的若干观点。近几年，防火墙和入侵检测系统IDS演变到防火墙FW、入侵防御系统IPS和统一威胁管理UTM系统的三国争霸，UTM将会代替防火墙的声音获得了不少关注。从皓月的这篇文章中，你能发现很多更深层次的思索。

皓月认为：基本上第一阵营、第二阵营传统信息安全厂商中的一半以上OEM飞塔的防毒墙，而采用嵌入引擎的方式则种类繁多，包括国外的卡巴斯基、赛门铁克、 Sophos、F-Prot以及国内的金山、安天等在内，而三线厂商则更有采用廉价但粗糙的开源的反病毒引擎ClamAV的解决方案。 Read more…

At Oct. 30, China Telecom, a giant telecom operator of China, host the 6th meeting for its multinational company customer meeting at Nanjing, Jiangsu province, south China. Tens of their MNC customers, including Cisco, Nokia, Ford, Sony and etc. attended the meeting. I joined as well on behalf of Lenovo.

At the meeting, China Telecom introduced its C+W strategy and demonstrate its new product offereing, e.g. global eye service, video conference service, remote training platform and etc.

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俞敏洪真的是中关村大名鼎鼎的人物，其实不仅仅是中关村，在全国考托、考G的浪潮中，俞敏洪都是风云人物，全国各地的学子不远千里，到北京的新东方带着朝圣的心情住进新东方的宿舍。呵呵，很多人可能会有感触。北大原来从未邀请过校友在开学典礼上讲话，2008年开学典礼，北大邀请了新东方教育科技集团董事长兼总裁俞敏洪老师讲话，这是俞老师的一种荣幸，更是新东方的一种荣誉。

以下是英语系80级校友、新东方教育科技集团董事长兼总裁俞敏洪作为优秀校友代表发言（2008年9月21日） Read more…

The below charts are worldwide distribution of malcode and DDoS attacks by Arbor networks.

The first one is a set of major malcode distribution points for May, 2008, by country, while the second one is who are hosting the DDoS attack botnets (these are the controlling servers, NOT the attacking bots). This is the number of attacks commanded by hour by server country.

It seems that too much malcode and DDoS attackes are originated from China. If this data is true, it betrays that China ISPs and government should do more to clean the network. Meanwhile, this means a great security market potential at China, even though the security market volume is relatively very small at this moment (less than 2B$ per year)

After years of rumors, the final picture of China telco re-org got announced today. It’s somewhat the same as the gossip inside the circle.
China Netcom(CNC) will be merged into China Unicom to be the new China Unicom. Meanwhile, The “C” and “G” networks of China Unicom will be splitted, while the “C” part will be merged into China Telecom. China Railcom (CRC) will be merged into China Mobile(CMCC).

The executives of the new companies are also mentioned:

• CMCC – Wang Jianzhou, Zhang Chunjiang(from CNC);
• CT – Wang Xiaochu, Shangbin(from CUC);
• CUC – Chang Xiaobing, Zuo Xunsheng(from CNC);

This re-grouping is interlocked with the 3G licenses. It’s said that the new CMCC will get TD-SCDMA, while new CUC will get WCDMA, and CT will get CDMA2000.

It’s interesting to watch back to what I summarized the evolvement of China telecommunication industry in the past 10 years.

This morning the great news is announced – Lenovo has a great fiscal year. Some financial detailed could be found at the official financial report. The below news report by Melinda Peer is also very worthy of your reading.

Slower consumer spending dampened sales of personal computers in the U.S., but Lenovo barely felt it thanks to higher shipments to emerging markets.

China’s largest personal computer maker said Thursday that fourth-quarter demand grew fastest in its Europe, Middle East and Africa region, where shipments jumped 30.0% in the fourth quarter. The segment offset weak demand in the U.S. where consumers have cut back on spending, which spells trouble for U.S. tech companies that haven’t fostered strong overseas growth.

Lenovo, which bought the personal computer division of IBM (nyse: IBM – news – people ) in 2005, reported sales of $1.3 billion in its core Chinese market, an increase of 18.0% from 2007′s fourth quarter. The country’s sales accounted for 34.0% of Lenovo’s fourth-quarter sales. Read more…

The death toll of China Sichuan(Wenchuan) earthquake has reached up to 51151, while 288431 wounded, and 29328 missed.

Along with the death toll is still increasing, yesterday, at some major BBS and forums, a story is quickly spreaded out about the abuse of earthquack relief materials – the camp. It’s said some earthquake camps were found at Chengdu city areas, which should not be covered by the relief.  This news made people very angry.

The government authority promised to investigate this and back to the people with a fair and transparent result.

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake happened in Sichuan Provice at 14:35pm May 12,2008. According to latest news, the dealth toll of the earchquake at Wenchuan, Beichuan counties, Sichuan Province, China, has reached up to 9219. Premier Wen Jiabo has been to Chengdu to direct the disaster recovery activities.

Check out the related news at Sina.com.

God bless China! God bless people at earthquake zones.

天佑中华！向震区人民祝福！