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andrew.plato

September 25, 2012

UTM v NGFW: A Single Shade of Gray

What is the difference between Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW)? Anitian explored these two technologies and finds…

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andrew.plato

July 25, 2012

Repost: Black Hat Hype Hurts the Risk Management Process

While Black Hat has been notably quieter and less frothy this year, this article (published in 2010) still rings true.  Hype…

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Packet Goes Where? The Value of Firewall Naming Conventions - Anitian

andrew.plato

June 4, 2012

Packet Goes Where? The Value of Firewall Naming Conventions

A zillion or so years ago, humans developed writing. This was a big deal for civilization. People could document things like…

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andrew.plato

May 21, 2012

Cultural Zero-Day: How Poor Leadership Begets Security Weakness

In the ten years Anitian has been working incident response and digital forensic cases, our analysts have observed many ingenious ways…

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PCI: I Find Your Lack of Scope Disturbing - Anitian

andrew.plato

April 9, 2012

PCI: I Find Your Lack of Scope Disturbing

I find your lack of a scope of compliance disturbing.

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andrew.plato

January 6, 2012

The Cult of Palo Alto Networks

What is it about Palo Alto Networks? They seem more like a cult than a firewall manufacturer.

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