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Posted 2019 Digital Transformation Market Trends Report to Webtorials
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While Digital Transformation has become one of the hottest topics in the IT industry, it is also somewhat nebulous and thus runs the risk of being marketed as all things to all people. The purpose of this study is to find out what the story is behind the hype.
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Our web site is sporting a new look and feel thanks to Movable Type and the Professional Template Set. The Professional Template Set makes it possible for just about anyone to get up and running with a new web...
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Commented on Digital Copiers: A Massive Passive Security Threat
One of the scariest parts of the hack shown on CBS was that the disk drives were standard hard drives like in desktop computers. So the ability to see data on a “normal” drive is well-known. But this raises the...
Commented on Digital Copiers: A Massive Passive Security Threat
Are people in your company aware that items that are “copied” or “faxed” are stored electronically? Do you have a policy concerning users advising users of this fact? For instance, is there an informative label (warning) on MFDs?...
Posted Digital Copiers: A Massive Passive Security Threat to Webtorials
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One of the interesting anomalies in licensing is that it seems that some equipment providers have differential pricing for licensing depending on whether the equipment connects to other equipment from the same provider or from another provider. For instance, if...
Commented on Multivendor HD Videoconferencing: Tomorrow's Capabilities Today
The link to the video is in the .pdf. We did not highlight it separately because it was not representative of the quality you should experience. Think of it as taking a DVD and copying to VHS. Good content, but...
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Interesting coverage and perspective on this report in the Wall Street Journal. I also added some clarifications/rebuttal there....
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In light of the current regulatory environment, what changes should enterprises consider for 2013?...
Commented on Multivendor HD Videoconferencing: Tomorrow's Capabilities Today
In reviewing the video, the content is quite good. However, as noted in the video itself, this was recorded using an iPad, and the video was recorded prior to the release of the iPad Version 4. A significant improvement for...

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Amit Sinha, Motorola commented on 'No-Wireless' Policies?
There seems to be a lot of discussion on this thread. Here are some of my comments/observations: 1. Sensor coverage is very dependent on the RF characteristics of a given facility. Given an installation, we use the Motorola LANPlanner tool to accurately determine the number and location of sensors. LANPlanner uses a 3D RF simulation that can account for the attenuation and propagation characteristics of various obstacles (dry wall, concrete, glass, etc.), as well as model the effects of multipath fading given actual 3D geometry (elevator shafts, atriums, cubicle walls, etc.). http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=061220d9881a6110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD 2. For WIPS detection purposes, most of the...
Wade Williamson, AirMagnet commented on 'No-Wireless' Policies?
Sri, Good post and good points. I think we are largely in agreement, especially on the effective ranges of the various 11n data rates. The only area that I would split hairs a bit is around the hard minimum coverage area for the sensors. From a security standpoint, I would argue that you do not need to see all 11n data rates in order to provide good security. We will detect the presence of rogue devices via probes and beacons, will be able to correlate those devices in terms of presence on the wire and also be able to block...
Sri Sundaralingam, AirTight Networks commented on 'No-Wireless' Policies?
Great, thanks Wade for your detailed answer. I do want to point out I am not talking about corner case scenarios here. The most common threats we find in the enterprise today are insiders (i.e. authorized users) plugging in consumer-grade 11N rogue APs, Adhoc connections between 11N enabled laptops, etc. Reality is that we are not in 11abg world anymore as we have moved to 11N technology. If you walk into your nearest electronics store, all you can buy today are 11N consumer Wi-Fi devices. So my point is deploying a sensor at 80K-90K sq ft (i.e. listening range of...
Wade Williamson, AirMagnet commented on 'No-Wireless' Policies?
Hi Sri, I definitely understand and agree with your point, but that logic would seem to imply that the only way to size a generic sensor deployment would be based on the smallest possible footprint of a potential rogue or threatening device. Certainly, this is a good view to consider, but it also will get infinitely small. Take your own example a step further. Instead of a device transmitting at 200 Mbps, what if we set a device to only connect at 300 Mbps and then also turned the transmit power down to 5 mW. You can make the rogue’s...
Sri Sundaralingam, AirTight Networks commented on 'No-Wireless' Policies?
Question for you on your comment Wade. If your sensor is not close enough to a 11N threat transmitting at 200 Mb, how are you going to detect it? I agree with you that prevention can be done at lower data rates but unless you can detect the threat, how will the sensor prevent it? BTW, I can give you several examples where threat (i.e. device) is only operating at 11N data-rates... This includes rogue APs, client Adhoc-connecivity, etc....

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