Alan Shimel is Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, in which role he helps shape the company's business and technology strategy. Alan is on the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium Board of Directors and is also responsible for StillSecure's participation in open source initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group and OS2A.
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It is easy to dismiss Don Dodge's piece asking 'Do You Really Want Your Data
in the Cloud?' as a Microsoft guy defending their turf. He uses some recent
uptime problems at Amazon, Twitter, Disqus and Typepad to show that keeping
your information in the cloud and relying on the net to deliver your
applications gives you less control, less security, less scalability and less
reliability.
Don has a point, even though net access and SaaS services are much more
mature than they were in the past, there are always the times when it does
not work. For that matter, cell phones, blackberries, and cable TV don't
always work either. An indication of how vital something has become is how
much we miss it if it is not available.
But to the point, I remember when the p... (more)
In this session Alan Shimel will discuss trends in open source, focusing on
the benefits and challenges of using open source for network security and
with regulatory compliance. He will outline the many advantages to using open
standards (which includes open source) in product development, especially in
network security where integration has become the "holy grail." In addition
he will d... (more)
Alan Shimel is Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, in which role he helps shape the company's business and technology strategy. Alan is on the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium Board of Directors and is also responsible for StillSecure's participation in open source initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group and OS2A.
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