Monday, February 9, 2015

Tabula Rosa Systems Blog Of The Day - TRS Product Summary Of Tripwire




Tripwire is the market leader for security configuration management, configuration compliance management, vulnerability management, and reliable log collection management. 

Auditing the configurations of IT systems and monitoring changes in those configurations is critical to reducing security risk and achieving compliance.  Tripwire Security Products shore up defenses against threats, provides visibility and context into your infrastructure, helps you focus corrective efforts on the events that matter, and lets you get your security operational. With Tripwire, you prevent breaches from occurring—and protect the business when they do—to minimize their consequences.

Tripwire's solutions help organizations of all sizes and types quickly address the first four, truly foundational, security controls. Conquering the first four then lays the foundation for addressing additional controls—which Tripwire can also help with. Using Tripwire, enterprises can achieve accelerated progress on:
  • CSC 1 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices
  • CSC 2 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software
  • CSC 3 - Secure Configurations for Hardware and Software on Mobile Devices, Laptops, Workstations, and Servers
  • CSC 4 - Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation
Regardless of the security control framework your organization may be considering or has begun to implement, the SANS 20 is a flexible starting point, applicable to nearly any organization regardless of size, industry, geography or government/commercial. See how Tripwire can help you make rapid progress in establishing a strategy, quickly implementing and then measuring and reporting against your organization's goals.

For further information, please contact us at 609-818-1802 or email sales@tabularosa.net
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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” will be published soon follow by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications. 

Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone.
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Tabula Rosa Security Alert From US-CERT Product Vulnerbilities

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National Cyber Awareness System:
02/09/2015 06:22 AM EST

Original release date: February 09, 2015
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For modified or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The vulnerabilities are based on the CVE vulnerability naming standard and are organized according to severity, determined by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) standard. The division of high, medium, and low severities correspond to the following scores:
·         High - Vulnerabilities will be labeled High severity if they have a CVSS base score of 7.0 - 10.0
·         Medium - Vulnerabilities will be labeled Medium severity if they have a CVSS base score of 4.0 - 6.9
·         Low - Vulnerabilities will be labeled Low severity if they have a CVSS base score of 0.0 - 3.9
Entries may include additional information provided by organizations and efforts sponsored by US-CERT. This information may include identifying information, values, definitions, and related links. Patch information is provided when available. Please note that some of the information in the bulletins is compiled from external, open source reports and is not a direct result of US-CERT analysis
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**Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for mail, network, systems and  IP management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions):

www.tabularosa.net

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” will be published soon follow by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications. 

Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Tabula Rosa Technical Term Of The Day - The Theory Of Relativity

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Theory of relativity from whatis.com

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is actually two separate theories: his special theory of relativity , postulated in the 1905 paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and his theory of general relativity , an expansion of the earlier theory, published as The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. Einstein sought to explain situations in which Newtonian physics might fail to deal successfully with phenomena, and in so doing proposed revolutionary changes in human concepts of time, space and gravity.

The special theory of relativity was based on two main postulates: first, that the speed of light is constant for all observers; and second, that observers moving at constant speeds should be subject to the same physical laws. Following this logic, Einstein theorized that time must change according to the speed of a moving object relative to the frame of reference of an observer. Scientists have tested this theory through experimentation - proving, for example, that an atomic clock ticks more slowly when traveling at a high speed than it does when it is not moving. The essence of Einstein's paper was that both space and time are relative (rather than absolute), which was said to hold true in a special case, the absence of a gravitational field. Relativity was a stunning concept at the time; scientists all over the world debated the veracity of Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2, which implied that matter and energy were equivalent and, more specifically, that a single particle of matter could be converted into a huge quantity of energy. However, since the special theory of relativity only held true in the absence of a gravitational field, Einstein strove for 11 more years to work gravity into his equations and discover how relativity might work generally as well.

According to the theory of general relativity, matter causes space to curve. It is posited that gravitation is not a force, as understood by Newtonian physics, but a curved field (an area of space under the influence of a force) in the space-time continuum that is actually created by the presence of mass. According to Einstein, that theory could be tested by measuring the deflection of starlight traveling near the sun; he correctly asserted that light deflection would be twice that expected by Newton's laws. This theory also explained why the light from stars in a strong gravitational field was closer to the red end of the spectrum than those in a weaker one.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Tabula Rosa Systems Product Summary for Catchpoint






Catchpoint Overview

Catchpoint Systems – Web Performance Monitoring

• End to End Performance Monitoring

• Monitor & Measure your performance and availability from 34 Nodes worldwide

• Real-time Alerting & Historical Reporting

• Monitor HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, DNS and Web Transactions 

• SLA compliance of external providers

• Unique capability of collecting internal monitoring metrics (or KPIs) from the data captured by our Synthetic nodes, allowing you to easily correlate and identify the cause of the performance problem. 

• HTTP Headers capture, trace routes and pings

Catchpoint provides performance monitoring solutions to internet-dependent businesses, which allows them to quickly analyze and improve speed, reliability and availability of their online services. 

The product is unique in being able to accomplish this without client agents. SuperAgent automatically provides key diagnostics needed to quickly pinpoint and solve enterprise performance problems. 
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**Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for network management, IP management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions:

www.tabularosa.net

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” will be published soon follow by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications. 

Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone.
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