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Information Security
- FeatureStopping the Next Heist
- FeatureProducts of the Year 2006
- FeatureSecure Reads: Real Digital Forensics
- FeatureHot Pick: Stonesoft's StoneGate SG-4000
- FeaturePortable device security: Safend's Safend Protector
- FeatureE-mail Security: Barracuda Spam Firewall
- FeatureRecent Releases: Security product briefs, February 2006
- FeatureIntrusion Prevention: Lucid Security's ipAngel 4.0
- FeatureGame Over?
- FeatureOn The Radar: Avoiding security upgrade disaster
- FeaturePerspectives: Pwning the C-suite
- FeaturePing: Yan Noblot
- FeatureEditor's Desk: When customers become victims of acquisitions
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Products of the Year 2006
Antispyware; Antivirus; Authentication; E-mail Security; Identity & Access Management; Intrusion Detection; Intrusion Prevention; Network Firewall; Remote Access; Network Security Management; Vulnerability Management; Wireless; Emerging Technologies
Published: 01 Feb 2006
Desktop and gateway enterprise antispyware products
Desktop and gateway enterprise antivirus products
PKI, RADIUS and biometrics products; tokens and smart cards
E-Mail Security
Antispam, gateway AV, e-mail encryption and content-filtering products
Identity & Access Management
Web SSO, provisioning, directories and password management products
Intrusion Detection
Signature- and anomaly-based host and network IDS products
Intrusion Prevention
Inline and offline network IPS products
Network Firewall
Appliances and software-based network firewall products
Remote Access
IPSec, SSL VPN and thin-client products
Network Security Management
SIM/SEM, configuration, policy and security device management, and change control products
Vulnerability Management
VA scanners, and automated patching/remediation and vulnerability risk management products
Wireless IDS/IPS, access control and rogue detection products
Emerging Technologies
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
ANTISPYWARE Desktop and gateway enterprise antispyware products
An Eye For Spies
Ad-Aware SE Enterprise Edition gives organizations the power to stop malware in its tracks from a central management control point.
As spyware becomes increasingly prevalent, antispyware tools are becoming more a necessity than a luxury. For this and many other reasons, we now recognize antispyware in our Information Security/SearchSecurity.com Products of the Year.
In today's environment users can deploy multiple antispyware tools to catch malware and protect individual systems. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Enterprise Edition makes great strides in address-ing both issues. Its ability to stop spyware, and its central management tool earn our gold medal in antispyware.
Long familiar to home and office users for its free and professional versions, Lavasoft has stepped up to the plate with an enterprise security product. Ad-Aware SE Enterprise Edition is essentially Lavasoft's Ad-Aware Professional Edition bundled with Ad-Axis Manage-ment Console. Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition runs on network clients and features customizable scan scheduling, quarantine support and automatic reference file updates on startup.
Ad-Axis Management Console provides centralized management for each client; you can centrally manage software updates and client scans.
One of the problems with protecting systems from spyware is defining exactly what you should be defending against. Ad-Aware helps meet that challenge head-on by protecting against a host of malware, including browser hijackers, data miners, dialers, DLL injection, keyloggers and tracking cookies.
And, Ad-Aware provides real-time protection with Ad-Watch. Running silently in the background, Ad-Watch aims to catch malware before it integrates into systems. Code Sequence Identification technology helps detect both known and unknown variants through the use of definition files and proactively scanning clients for spyware-like behavior. Once spyware has been identified, you can then block cookies and pop-up ads, and lock startup sections of the registry. Organizations also have the ability to edit the included pop-up blacklist and configure Ad-Watch to permit changes to the registry.
In short, Ad-Aware SE Enterprise Edition gives enterprises what they need in antispyware--the power to stop malware from a central point of control.
| eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware
We miss PestPatrol's familiar bugs crawling across our monitors. But as one of the first enterprise-level antispyware products, PestPatrol continues to win strong user support after its acquisition by CA, especially for performance, with praise for security and overall quality.
| McAfee AntiSpyware Enterprise
It's not just about viruses--McAfee shows it's more than a power player in the AV market, demonstrating leadership against spyware, receiving good user ratings for security, performance, feature set and overall quality.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
ANTIVirus Desktop and gateway enterprise antivirus products
Bigger and Better
"Symantec is better than most because of market share, which equates to research and development dollars."
Bigger doesn't always mean better--but the Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition is both widely used and highly effective. In our survey, readers showered it with superlatives like "the best for the desktop," "legendary" and "excellent for our needs," earning it the gold medal in antivirus.
Symantec's AntiVirus Corporate Edition is actually a suite of products that protects against viruses, worms, spam and spyware, and filters content. The technology is deployed on network and e-mail servers and individual workstations, offering virus-fighting capabilities from the gateway to the host.
At a time when malicious code is becoming more nimble and complex, businesses say they need an AV offering that can outrun and outthink attackers. Users applaud Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition's frequent signature updates and say that the company's size actually gives its products an edge. "Symantec is better than most because of market share, which equates to research and development dollars," one respondent comments. As a sign of its ongoing innovation, Symantec recently received a patent for its histogram-based malicious code detection technology, which prioritizes various behaviors to quickly detect whether a piece of code poses a threat. Also, Symantec's new tamper protection feature defends against viruses that attempt to disable security mechanisms.
Symantec also receives high marks for its user interface and administrator-friendly touches, such as centralized configuration, installation and logging. While these features are common to most AV offerings, one user called Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition "precise and dependable." Users also appreciate the high quality of Symantec Security Response, a team of security engineers who evaluate threats, update signatures and warn customers of significant risks. And, valuable in an increasingly mobile world, Symantec includes a client compliance technology to make sure all devices connecting to the network through a VPN meet established security policies.
These days, though, the key to Symantec's success may be its integrated approach. At a time when infosecurity departments are overseeing relationships with dozens of vendors and managing countless updates and upgrades, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition seems to simplify things by including spyware and adware protection. Administrators set application-by-application policies via their antivirus management interface. They can automatically remove suspected spyware and clean up registries, files and load points after an infection. LiveUpdate technology sends admins a single update for viruses, malware and spyware.
"Good product, great support," one user noted. "I like that Symantec has integrated antispyware into its antivirus offering."
| Sophos Anti-Virus
Tops in vendor support/service thanks to its "outstanding Web site." Users applaud a product that "works as advertised."
| Trend Micro OfficeScan
Trend Micro
A "top choice" that's "getting better and better." Users give high marks for overall quality, citing its solid interface and small agent footprint.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Authentication PKI, RADIUS and biometrics products; tokens and smart cards
Not Just Token Praise
"There's no downtime. That's really why we chose RSA over the others. We needed that reliability."
RSA Security
With the threat of data theft and the demands of regulatory compliance, enterprises are clamoring for tools to ensure users accessing the network are indeed who they say they are.
Patrick A. Coté, information security officer for Houghton Mifflin Company, says RSA Security's RSA SecurID has proven itself as the best fit for his company. Others have reached the same conclusion, making it this year's gold-medal winner in authentication for the second straight year.
"With our prior system, you could really try to guess passwords," Coté says. "The whole password schema really wasn't very robust, so we looked for a two-factor authentication product." His department rolled out SecurID tokens in May 2005; by late December, 2,500 accounts had been established in a Unix environment. So far, he says, "not a single person has had trouble authenticating."
The tokens are used strictly for remote access. "Once the PIN is set up, if the token is used correctly there's no downtime," Coté says. "It's very reliable. That was really why we chose RSA over the others. We needed that reliability."
Users responding to the Products of the Year survey rate SecurID particularly high in the performance, vendor support/service, features and overall quality categories. One user SecurID calls it "the standard by which all others are judged." Another calls it a "first-rate and robust product." Others agreed with CotÉ that it is "very reliable."
Since 1986, SecurID has defined authentication, authorization and accounting, and still the SecurID system offers the application support, management/deployment capabilities, and a reputation for reliability and technical support that give it real-world utility in every type of enterprise.
While Coté has deployed it in a Unix environment, organizations can also deploy SecurID through a variety of hardware and software tokens for Windows workstations and assorted handheld devices and wireless phones.
SecurID's scalability is another critical factor, enabling large enterprises to deploy and manage authentication for millions of users and hundreds of apps through its Authentication and Deployment managers. The bundled Deployment Manager is automated, Web-based provisioning software that enables quick token deployment. Its self-service capability reduces the drain on IT staffs and help desks.
For SMBs, two-factor authentication is also available with the RSA SecurID Appliance, a hardened Windows box with embedded firewall functionlity designed for easy management.
| Steel-Belted Radius/Enterprise Edition
Funk Software (Juniper Networks)
Authentication is where the rubber hits the road, and this RADIUS/AAA server for wired and wireless networks helps keep enterprises running smoothly and securely.
| VeriSign Managed PKI Services
Trust is a cornerstone of security, and companies trust VeriSign, which won very strong survey approval for security, and good ratings for performance and overall quality for its range of PKI services.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
E-Mail Security Antispam, gateway AV, e-mail encryption and content-filtering products
Getting the Message
"IronMail was one of the few pieces of security infrastructure that was a true win for us."
After winning users' trust, CipherTrust's IronMail has won a gold medal in e-mail security. Not only did the product come out on top, but it also received the highest overall score of all 60 finalists in our Products of the Year.
The reason is clear: IronMail offers superior quality, robust performance and a comprehensive feature set wrapped into one tight appliance.
For Franklin Warfield, senior messaging administrator for Cox Communications, it was CipherTrust's approach that won him over when he was evaluating e-mail appliance solutions more than two years ago. He chose IronMail because CipherTrust wasn't just interested in addressing the latest threat, but rather looking at spam holistically.
"The company was way in front of others. To them, spam is a threat on your network, not just some annoyance," says Warfield, who manages e-mail internally for the Atlanta-based company's 30,000 employees. "And, it doesn't rely on just one test, but looks at thousands of attributes."
Before IronMail, Warfield was spending 20 hours a week maintaining content lists. Today, time spent has dropped to three hours a week while the number of e-mails has grown from 1.5 million to 40 million per month.
CipherTrust has continued to raise the bar in terms of e-mail security, with a slew of introductions this year enabling security professionals to protect against unauthorized use of instant messaging, personal Web mail, blogs and VoIP services such as Skype with its IronIM, IronNet and IronMail Edge. The company has also bolstered its analysis and reporting and compliance capabilities. To keep its customers abreast of the latest attacks, CipherTrust has enhanced TrustedSource, its global threat correlation engine offering spam-blocking rates at close to 100 percent. Meanwhile, its ZombieMeter tracks botnet activity worldwide.
"CipherTrust's technical specifications actually matched its literature," says Donald Wasylyna, manager of information security for the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. "There weren't services that conflicted with one another. Typically, you'll have five different features but not all five features can be used at the same time."
Wasylyna also finds the company's support and customer responsiveness to be excellent. "IronMail was one of the few pieces of security infrastructure that was a true win for us."
| Barracuda Spam Firewall
Barracuda Networks
This fish devours spam and preys on viruses and spyware before they can prey on you. Barracuda Spam Firewall gets strong approval for performance, security and overall quality.
| Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series
Combining the power of Symantec's leading antivirus and Brightmail antispam, the 8200 series of appliances is very highly regarded for overall quality.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Identity & Access Management Web SSO, provisioning, directories and password management products
A Clear Choice
"We have to comply with HIPAA. With ClearTrust, we can audit changes going back two years. It's nice, finely grained audit data."
RSA Security
"The struggle between security and usability is no greater anywhere than in health care," says Chris Gervais, senior research analyst/technologist for Partners Healthcare. Partners' challenge was to give community-based medical and administrative personnel easy, secure access to patient records throughout its extensive Massachusetts network of hospitals and clinics.
The solution, RSA Security's RSA ClearTrust, provided the convenient Web portal Partners needed, with the security that management--and HIPAA requirements--demanded. It's the kind of experience that spurred voters to make ClearTrust the gold-medal winner for identity and access management.
In the past, Partners' highly mobile employees had to rely on VPN access--which meant using digital certificates, sending out installation CDs and giving direct network access to laptops vulnerable to spyware and other malicious code. This was both a management burden and an impediment to adoption.
"Clinicians and admins use ClearTrust to arrange care; largely, it's made it invisible," says Gervais. "They know they log in to a secure site with strong credentials."
Partners had a history with RSA, using RSA SecurID for strong authentication. But what sold Gervais--and the organization's steering committee--on ClearTrust over other Web-based access management products was confidence that RSA would provide more functionality out of the box and could get up and running quickly.
"We had an aggressive timeline. Time to market was important," Gervais says. "RSA brought the necessary resources to bear."
Readers gave ClearTrust some of the highest grades across the board in our Products of the Year survey, with particular emphasis on security and performance.
ClearTrust provides Web-based single sign-on capability with highly granular and flexible access control policies through what RSA calls Smart Rules technology. Smart Rules allows organizations to leverage existing data repositories to permit real-time authorization decisions and speed deployment. It supports a wide range of authentication options. Its comprehensive auditing and reporting features were a powerful persuader for Partners.
"Obviously, we have to comply with HIPAA, and we have to go through a bunch of audits," Gervais says. "With ClearTrust, our information security office sets up procedures; inside the application, we have clinical security policies down to the patient level. We can audit changes in patient records going back two years. It's nice, finely grained audit data."
| Novell eDirectory
At the heart of Novell's identity and access management offerings beats eDirectory, a mature and very solid directory product that draws reader praise for overall quality and security.
| Sun ONE Directory Server
Sun Microsystems
Sun's respected directory shines brightly, drawing reader kudos for performance and overall quality, with a strong vote for security.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Intrusion Detection Signature- and anomaly-based host and network IDS products
The Detection Selection
Clearly, IDS has a home in the enterprise, despite doomsday predictions, as a weapon against an ever-evolving hacker landscape.
Intrusion prevention may be threat management's flight of fancy, but there's still clearly a place for standby intrusion detection in an enterprise environment.
The death knell apparently rang prematurely for intrusion detection systems, as many security managers understand its function and value, and are unwilling to abandon a technology that affords them network awareness and forensic capabilities.
It's here that CA's eTrust Intrusion Detection product scored well to earn a gold medal in intrusion detection.
Excellent scores in security capabilities, feature sets and overall quality put eTrust over the top. The product is a versatile weapon against an ever-evolving hacker landscape.
A southern U.S. university, for example, deployed eTrust Intrusion Detection, among other CA security products, in its environment to help secure a new online master's degree program for the Department of Homeland Security. The school was concerned about protecting the identities of its students who worked for DHS. eTrust Intrusion Detection alerted IT managers to potential attacks and helped the college run its program successfully and securely.
Security managers can either remotely or centrally manage eTrust Intrusion Detection. The product protects against known attacks by pinpointing traffic patterns that offend established policies and cutting off sessions that are clearly against policy.
It's natural that systems management giant CA's eTrust Intrusion Detection integrates easily with the company's flagship eTrust Security Command Center and eTrust Vulnerability Manager.
Another IDS sweet spot is forensics. eTrust Intrusion Detection logs data that can be analyzed from leading databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Logging features also can be tweaked to track user behavior on the network, as well as application performance. The product can also be used to monitor HTTP, SMTP, FTP and Telnet traffic, and offers URL blocking and access control features that deny user visits to prohibited sites.
Clearly, IDS has a home in the enterprise, despite doomsday predictions. The technology has lived beyond its death sentence, and its future will be determined by its ability to correlate and visualize the data it generates, keep false positives and negatives to a minimum, and stabilize bandwidth consumption.
| Intruder Alert
Who goes there? This host-based IDS complements Symantec's network security products and is well-regarded by users for security, performance and overall quality.
| RealSecure Network
Internet Security Systems
Standing the test of time with nearly a decade in the IDS market, RealSecure remains a strong component of ISS's security portfolio and continues to draw strong user ratings for overall quality.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Intrusion Prevention Inline and offline network IPS products
Raise the Shields
With its ability to scale from a network's edge to remote locations, IntruShield is truly an enterprise product.
Antivirus vendors have extended their lifespan by branching out to offer enterprise protection beyond malicious code. McAfee got into the intrusion prevention space in April 2003 via its acquisition of IntruVert and its IntruShield IPS appliances. The move was part of a bigger push into overall vulnerability management that also included McAfee's acquisition of Entercept and its host-based IPS technology, and Foundstone, a vulnerability assessment company.
IntruShield, an IPS veteran, earned the gold medal in intrusion prevention with high scores in performance and security capabilities, as well as overall quality and feature sets.
IntruShield is entrenched in the enterprise. Research firm Infonetics Research declared it the worldwide revenue market-share leader for network-based inline IPS, a position it's held since the fourth quarter of 2003. McAfee is the No. 3 appliance vendor behind Cisco and ISS, according to IDC. The IPS appliance market, meanwhile, continues to boom with 35 percent annual growth and a projected growth of 104 percent through 2008, Infonetics says.
One university network manager keeps malicious code attacks and hacker intrusions to a minimum using IntruShield, sitting it inline between the school's firewall and router. IntruShield also identifies reconnaissance missions carried out by hackers looking for weak network entry points. Attacks are prevented from compromising a network, a proactive posture that IDS systems don't afford.
IntruShield defends against known and unknown attacks, using three different means of detection: signature-based, anomaly-based and denial-of-service protection. It also protects against clear-text and encrypted attacks.
The product is able to parse more than 100 protocols and more than 3,000 signatures to detect intrusions. It also includes virtual IPS and firewall deployment options, including inline, port clustering, and span and tap modes. The various deployment options enable security managers to create and enforce granular security policies. All of this contributes to a reduction in false positives.
IntruShield is truly an enterprise product, with the ability to scale from the network edge to remote locations. IntruShield scales from hundreds of Mbps to multi-gigabit bandwidth. Signature updates are automated and done in real time without the need for sensor reboots, eliminating the need for manual updates or downtime for reboots.
| ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
Cisco Systems
With firewall, VPN and network AV on top of its powerful IPS capability, the ASA 5500 series got a thumbs-up for security.
| Proventia G Series
Internet Security Systems
ISS's line of appliances serves a wide range of environments, and Proventia is well-regarded for overall quality, performance and security.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Network Firewall Appliances and software-based network firewall products
Juniper Blooms
"We selected Juniper because we knew the performance was greater than our previous solution."
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks clearly knew what it was doing when it acquired NetScreen in 2004. Its NetScreen-5GT and -5XT firewall appliances earned consistent "excellent" and "good" responses across the board, earning the gold medal in the network firewall category for two years running.
This family of network security solutions is ideal for locking down enterprises' remote offices, retail outlets and broadband telecommuter environments. Its integrated security applications, routing protocols and policy-based management features have earned it the top spot among surveyed readers.
The NetScreen-5GT's and -5XT's stateful packet inspection and signature-based deep inspection threat detection, and DDoS protection capabilities, stop network- and application-layer attacks. Their Web filtering options (available from third-party vendor Websense) prevent users from leaking sensitive corporate information, whether deliberately or through spyware/phishing attacks. The firewalls offer up to 25 concurrent VPN tunnels, an unlimited number of trusted IP addresses and up to 4,000 concurrent sessions.
Specifically, the 5GT has embedded network-based AV that scans for viruses in e-mail, Web and file-transfer protocols. Its embedded Trend Micro antivirus engine scans IMAP, SMTP, FTP, POP3 and HTTP mail protocols, and checks against an encyclopedia of more than 80,000 signatures. (It is important to note that the NetScreen-5XT does not support this embedded antivirus gateway scanning.)
The 5GT's and 5XT's embedded IPSec VPN provides Web-based and XAUTH authentication, with third-party support for RADIUS, LDAP and RSA SecurID.
"We originally selected Juniper because we knew the performance was greater than our previous solution. We had no idea we'd be seeing so many other benefits," says Matthew Gruett, Internet systems specialist for TDS Telecom.
Both the 5GT and 5XT support key routing protocols--including BGP, OSPF and ECMP--and integrate into the network with ease. Dial-backup and dual Ethernet ports support business-critical systems and provide redundancy. Restricted security zones protect corporate activity and offer a clear separation between authorized and unauthorized business use. The zones also offer delineation between home and office users, allowing employees to access the corporate network though a secure VPN connection (work zone) and maintain their access to the Internet (home zone) through normal connectivity.
In addition, the 5GT Wireless appliance also offers support for a wide set of wireless authentication and privacy protocols for 802.11b/g networks.
| Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances
Cisco Systems
Firewall and PIX are synonomous, says one user. "It's what I trust between me and the Internet."
| FireWall-1
Check Point Software Technologies
It is no surprise that this granddaddy of firewalls continues to draw great user support, getting especially strong ratings for security.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Remote Access IPSec, SSL VPN and thin-client products
Access Success
"Concentrators [are] the most compatible and secure, and provide the best ease-of-use out of all remote access devices."
Cisco Systems
With the proliferation of laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices requiring access to the corporate network, a VPN purchase is no longer an impulse--it's an imperative. The offerings have mushroomed, particularly SSL VPN products, forcing IPSec-dependent market leaders to broaden their scope. Included in this wave are Cisco Systems' VPN 3000 Series Concentrators--a smart move judging by the number of readers who raved about its endpoint security and ease of use. For this reason, the Concentrators were awarded the gold medal in remote access.
"Concentrators have proven to be the most compatible and secure, and provide the best ease-of-use out of all the remote access devices I have encountered," wrote one enthusiastic user. Others who helped make the series' six models collectively tops were especially pleased with the Concentrators' security, including their firewall capabilities through stateless packet filtering and granular access control. The majority also gave their thumbs-up approval to the wide range of features, documentation and vendor support.
"An excellent tool," said one user.
Scalability is a strong driver. Cisco VPN 3005 and 3015 are designed for small- to mid-sized enterprises, promising between 100 and 200 simultaneous IPSec sessions, or 50 and 75 WebVPN sessions. The 3020 and higher are geared more toward larger companies, supporting up to 10,000 IPSec, or 500 clientless sessions running concurrently in the 3080 model.
A big plus, according to users, is the VPN series' versatility. Recognizing that SSL VPN providers were gaining market share, Cisco made sure its 3000 series offered both IPSec- and SSL-based connectivity on a single platform. This allows almost any device within the corporate network to establish an end-to-end secure connection using public networks.
In addition, customers like how easily the Concentrators can be managed through their simple Web-based interface to configure mobile devices and monitor all remote-access users. That includes pushing policies and updates through the VPN to users and then scanning for continued compliance before a machine is allowed on to a network.
Some respondents were glad to discover that the VPN 3000 Concentrators work well with other applications.
"[We] rarely have problems with these devices," one user wrote. Another summed it up this way: "[Concentrators are] just plain easy."
Check Point Software Technologies
This is the other half of the medal-winning Check Point package (with FireWall-1). One user calls it "the most compatible, secure remote access device." It wins high praise for security, performance and overall quality.
| VPN Gateway
Nortel Networks
"Stable, reliable, robust. Just keeps working." VPN Gateway users particularly like its performance and give it consistent "excellent" ratings for security.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Network Security Management SIM/SEM, configuration, policy and security device management, and change control products
Always on Guard
"It's a great set of electronic eyes. We have more visibility into the Web infrastructure and critical servers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"-- but certainly maintaining consistent system configurations is a serious matter to diligent security managers. That's why Tripwire Enterprise, which provides a 24/7 real-time window into network change management, won the gold medal for network security management.
"It's a great set of electronic eyes," says Steve Kirschbaum, CISO for Openwave Systems, which develops cellphone software for large telecommunications firms. "It has robust monitoring capabilities. We have more visibility into the Web infrastructure and critical servers; we can do more remotely."
In its initial deployment, Openwave used Tripwire to monitor its FTP site for delivering software to customers. Tripwire's ability to monitor the site in real time allows the company to claim revenue as soon as the software is posted. Further, the detailed and accurate audit reports give Kirschbaum peace of mind for regulatory compliance, especially SOX.
Before Tripwire, "It was pretty spotty, notifying the client and notifying finance. It wasn't always accurate. With SOX, accuracy is big," Kirschbaum says. He is planning a more extensive rollout to monitor and produce reports on Openwave systems and development organizations in Europe and Asia.
Tripwire came out on top in a diverse, complex category. Network Security Management encompasses not only change control, but security information and event management, policy management and security device management.
Tripwire Enterprise monitors files, directories, registry settings, directory server objects, and configuration files on file and directory servers and network devices.
This provides sweeping change control coverage across the organization, giving security managers timely notice about which systems have fallen out of compliance--through unreported installations, configuration modifications, or attacks--and confirming that authorized changes have indeed taken place. Tripwire provides detailed reports that verify system integrity or give staff the information they need to investigate and remediate noncompliant devices. It can be integrated to direct third-party tools to automate remediation.
Kirschbaum, who had extensive experience with Tripwire at a previous job, looked at competitive products, but says Tripwire has a good brand name, and that he's sold on its "great customer service."
And he had an important ally. "It gave us exactly what our business required," he says. "Our finance people requested it by name."
| ePolicy Orchestrator
Making diverse security tools play beautiful music together, Orchestrator centrally manages McAfee security products, correlates data and detects rogue systems. Users like its performance and security.
| eTrust Security Command Center
Like an enterprise General, eTrust Security Command Center puts combined arms to work, correlating security data and integrating with vulnerability assessment and remediation tools.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Vulnerability Management VA scanners, and automated patching/remediation and vulnerability risk management products
Solid Plan for Scans
McAfee's Foundstone Enterprise "sets the standard for accurate assessment of exposures [and] shows adaptability to our global IP network."
McAfee made a savvy move when it acquired vulnerability management firm Foundstone in 2004. The Foundstone Enterprise product has been proven a hit with customers for its security, comprehensive features and overall quality, earning it a gold medal for vulnerability management.
Drawing on the expertise of Foundstone's consultant founders-- who wrote the best-selling Hacking Exposed--the technology eases the pain of managing a multitude of vulnerabilities in operating systems, network devices and other infrastructure.
Available as software or the FS1000 appliance, Foundstone Enterprise provides an automated system for what can be time-consuming and cumbersome chores for an enterprise: mapping the network, prioritizing assets and probing for vulnerabilities.
At the core of McAfee's Foundstone Enterprise is FoundScan, the original name of Foundstone's vulnerability management solution. FoundScan's accuracy in identifying operating systems and matching vulnerabilities to target systems is top-notch, as is its ability to scan large-scale networks quickly.
The Foundstone technology "sets the standard for accurate assessment of exposures," says one enterprise security manager. More than any other competing product the company tested, it "shows adaptability to our global IP network" and also provides extensive management tools.
Foundstone Enterprise comes with a multi-user, role-based Enterprise Manager Web portal, which allows managers to schedule and monitor local or remote scans--a boon for distributed enterprises. The portal gives managers a lot of flexibility in scheduling and tuning scans so they don't interfere with business operations. Scans can also be configured for specific parts of the network or for certain vulnerabilities.
An optional remediation component helps with one of the biggest headaches of all: making sure critical vulnerabilities are fixed. Based on vulnerabilities discovered in a scan, the module automatically creates tickets, assigns them to the appropriate employee for remediation and provides a way to verify that problems are actually fixed.
Another elective add-on is the threat correlation module, which supplies customers with threat intelligence alerts from the experts at McAfee's labs, giving them a leg up when dealing with breaking events such as Internet worms.
The latest release of Foundstone Enterprise features regulatory compliance templates. The updated software will measure compliance with the vulnerability and configuration aspects of regulations such as SOX, HIPAA and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard.
| Vulnerability Assessment
Another weapon in security behemoth Symantec's diverse arsenal of security weapons, Vulnerability Assessment gets good grades across the board, with security most frequently receiving excellent scores.
| Internet Scanner
Internet Security Systems
A top name among VA scanners, Internet Scanner can be integrated with ISS's intrusion prevention products under a common management platform. Readers applaud its overall quality, and give high marks for its performance and feature set.
Information Security & SearchSecurity.com Products of the year 2006
Wireless Wireless IDS/IPS, access control and rogue detection products
Wireless with Less Worry
Even if a network extends beyond an organization's walls, Unified Wireless Network Solution can do the job.
Cisco Systems
The networking giant may soon be the security giant as well, at least when it comes to keeping wireless networks safe. Cisco Systems' Unified Wireless Network Solution earned top honors grabbing the gold medal in wireless.
Unified Wireless Network Solution is a standards-based wireless LAN security solution designed specifically for large organizations. The offering mitigates sophisticated passive and active wireless LAN attacks, works with a range of client devices, and provides reliable, scalable, centralized security management. Additionally, it's intended to keep the IT staff burden low with administration features that allow network admins to deploy robust yet easy-to-manage security across a network.
The majority of respondents to the Products of the Year survey rated the product good/excellent in all categories, with its marks for overall quality particularly strong.
Other product highlights include support for industry security standards, such as IEEE 802.11i; the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2); 802.1X support for strong, mutual authentication; and dynamic encryption key management and data encryption using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
With integration in Cisco's Self-Defending Network and Network Admission Control (NAC) initiatives, Unified Wireless Network Solution allows Wi-Fi Certified client devices to provide access control via per-user, per-session mutual authentication and data privacy with strong dynamic encryption. Additionally, the offering comes with an enterprise-class IPS.
Even if a network extends beyond an organization's walls, the product can do the job, thanks in large part to compatibility with Cisco's wireless mesh solution for maintaining indoor/outdoor connectivity.
Cisco made considerable strides in the WLAN market in 2005, with a nod to its $450 million acquisition of WLAN switch startup Airespace last January. The networking giant has held the top spot in the WLAN equipment market for some time, and the latest WLAN market report from Infonetics Research found that Cisco is closing the gap between itself and wireless switch market leader Symbol Technologies.
According to Infonectics, Cisco also leads the overall network hardware and software security market with a 35 percent share, fueled by the growth in IPSes and network access control (NAC) gear.
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"Elemental has the most comprehensive overall approach for compliance monitoring, across the board and across platform."
Financial services companies like Marshall BankFirst need a firm grip on what's going on across their networks, both to satisfy demanding regulatory obligations and to protect their customers' accounts and personally identifiable information.
"Elemental has the most comprehensive overall approach for compliance monitoring, across the board and across platform," says Tyler Brenden, director of IT infrastructure for Marshall, which includes banks in three states and national commercial and residential lending services.
In a year when regulatory compliance seems to dominate the infosecurity market, the integrated policy management, host configuration and network access control in a single offering earned Elemental Compliance System (ECS) the gold medal in emerging technologies. In a category chosen by Information Security and SearchSecurity.com editors, Elemental's innovative approach to a high-profile, enterprise-level security need made it the clear choice.
"Being a bank, we have many federal compliance issues," says Brenden. "Audits always came down to information security policy: 'Prove it. Do you actually implement the policies?' We had to show screen prints and configuration screens. With Elemental, we can define policy and show which devices are in compliance, and the percentage."
Agent-based ECS gives an up-to-date picture of your networks' compliance on demand--by group, by device and by policy. It can monitor compliance for anything from password policy to patch level. ECS provides some 1,700 policy templates based on NSA, Microsoft, DISA and SANS security best practices; SOX, and standard applications such as Internet Explorer, Oracle, Apache, Sendmail and IIS. ECS can enforce as well as monitor policy through several means, including quarantining noncompliant PCs and servers. Marshall is getting ready to implement its initial enforcement procedure for wireless connections.
"We don't allow wireless networks," Brenden declares, "but our workforce has laptops. Our Elemental policy won't allow the device to connect to the network if the wireless card is enabled."
Brenden also likes ECS agents' ability to detect devices on the corporate network by monitoring traffic in and out of the device and putting them into dynamic groups until they can be checked out.
"And it can limit communications between devices," he says. "We can see some important cases for that, particularly not allowing development machines to see data sources."
With attackers swarming over vulnerable Web apps, HIVE creates quite a buzz with its fresh approach to securing online activity. The magic is in its unique technology, which effectively uses application-layer tokens to proxy each Web transaction and validate requests.
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Information Security and SearchSecurity.com presented 890 readers with a survey of more than 300 security products, divided into 12 categories. Respondents were asked to select the products in each category that they use and had the option of specifying products that did not appear on the list. (The categories and product lists were determined by Information Security and SearchSecurity.com editors.) Respondents were asked to rate each product in six areas: overall quality, performance, features, security, documentation and vendor support/service.
In each area, respondents scored the product on a scale of one (poor) to five (excellent). They also had the ability to opt out of scoring in one or more criteria by indicating that they had "no opinion."
Winners were based on cumulative responses for the six criteria. Editors arrived at a product's overall score by calculating the average number of points it received in all of the evaluation areas. In each category, the highest overall score received the gold medal, the next highest earned the silver medal, and the third highest took the bronze medal.
To prevent products that received a small number of high scores from unduly influencing the results, we instituted a vote qualification minimum: In order to be eligible for award consideration, a product had to be among the top five vote getters in its category.
The three finalists in each category represent the top scores from the top five vote-getters. The gold medal winner received the highest score among the three finalists.
The gold medal winner also had to get at least 25 percent of the total votes.
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Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year, everyone. To start this new year, and new decade off, here's the first 5 pages of the upcoming Tales of The Fallen #6: ARCEE story. Artwork is by Alex Milne with colors by Josh Perez. Can't say how happy I was to be able to work with these two again.
This issue also features a new character I created named FLATLINE. He's a Decepticon medic, basically their version of Ratchet. While Ratchet may work to save lives, Flatline merely gets his soldiers operational again. Because as I'd like to think of him saying "to cease to serve, is to cease to function."
The story takes place after Reign of Starscream #5 and before the Alliance series. Set on a remote Decepticon outpost on a distant planet, Thundercracker is left thinking that he's one of a few Decepticons left. With the help of Flatline, some protoform "hatchlings," and a few unlucky Autotbot "donors," their aim is to create their own platoon and eventually take the fight back to Cybertron.
17 comments:
- Web said...
Scary! But cool, can't wait to read this. :)
- January 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Absolutely fucking hideous. I will avoid this like STDs.
- January 1, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
Nice to know you're not taking after your mother, then.
- January 1, 2010 at 7:03 PM
HA! Slick comeback.
When does this come out, Mr. Mowry?
- January 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
With any luck (seriously, what is up with the shipping lately?), January 6. This Wednesday.
- January 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Fascinating. Very fascinating.
I'd wager a voyager class figure would be made if Flatline made it into the toyline. I wouldn't mind having him as a figure.
Also, Mr. Mowry, can we assume this issue will retcon how the ROTF Autobots arrived on Earth?
Alliance said the troop of Arcee and her sisters, Sideswipe, and the Twins arrived on Earth at the same time; however, Tales of the Fallen has said Sideswipe arrived on his own.
- January 1, 2010 at 7:51 PM
I so a figure of flatline he looks really cool its also nice to know how arcee wound like that yay thundercracker is back
- January 2, 2010 at 8:45 AM
This one looks really interesting, can't wait to see it and I really like the art.
- January 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM
WOA! love that art! i consider myself in love with these histories of cybertronian in out of earth places bc they are in their original forms,and the backgrounds of each character are pretty good, i live in spain and here those comics don`t come so i buy them via web my lates adition was reign of starscream tradepaperback and u know why? mostly to have in my hands and see that art and some sketches at the end, i love so much those movie verse characters in their cybertronian original forms,Mr. C.M your hand is blessed! Congrats from madrid!
- January 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM
Collaboration "Mowry+Milne+Perez"=
WIN..WIN..WIN. Now, any chance for MORE..MORE..MORE? Here's hoping!!!
Canada says .."IDW--Pay Attention!"
- January 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Graham Thomson said...
Looking forward to this! Enjoyed Reign of Starscream and Defiance. Chris, do you have any more Transformers work on the horizon?
- January 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
Originally, I wanted the Autobots to leave a beacon in that junkyard. Basically somewhere that they could land safely, scan a form, then meet up with the other Autobots. That was the only thing I could think of that would allow them to stay in vehicle form (we weren't allowed to show their robot forms yet), while also keeping them involved somewhat with the story. While I may have had an idea, it doesn't mean that any other writer necessarily needs to follow that. That would be up to the editors to decide.
- January 3, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
@Anonymous from Madrid:
Thanks for the kind words, but Alex Milne is the artist on those books. I just wrote them. Alex has a great eye for detail and is always adding something new to his work. It's been a great pleasure working with him not only on these stories, but also on the characters. He's always got something cool to add to them.
- January 3, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
@Anonymous and Graham Thomson:
Thank you very much for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoy our work. I'm sure that Alex and Josh will be working on things in the future, but for Transformers, I'm afraid that currently, this is my last story. There may be other licenses that I will get involved with at IDW (or elsewhere), but currently I have no plans to continue on the TF license. I do have a few rough outlines for stories I wanted to tell that I'll end up sharing on this blog though, so stay tuned.
- January 3, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Jeysie said...
Well, you know I've been looking forward to this one! :D
BTW, I'm kind of amused just how many people have been like, "60s hearse/coroner's van Decepticon medic = must have toy". XD I think you tapped into some weird need in the fandom. (Not that I disagree with them, mind you...)
- January 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Chris Mowry said...
I know you have and I'm anxious to hear your thoughts. :)
I'm flattered by the reaction so far. I'd love to see him as a toy someday, but I'd prefer he earns it by getting some more "screen time" first!
- January 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- lonegamer7 said...
Ack, that reminds me! Flareup or Elita-One?!
- January 6, 2010 at 6:11 PM


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Have you noticed I haven't posted many sewing photos lately? I promise I'm hard at work. Probably harder at work than I've ever been actually. But I can't show you the couple projects occupying my time just yet. Hopefully you will be excited to see them when I can though!
In the meantime, I thought I would share my newest quilt labels. I ordered these from World Wide Label after seeing the labels Megan ordered. I was very happy with their process and communication. I designed my labels to have a fold and use the same font as my header. These are woven labels and the text stitching is a very dark grey. I love that these won't fade in the wash like my old printed labels too. Overall a great experience, and they look great on finished quilts!


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The blaze, discovered among oily rags, mops and dust cloths in a closet just off the vestibule in the entrance to the church, had gained but slight headway when the fire department arrived.
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President Obama Committed to Helping Colorado Deal with Wildfire
(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama spoke with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper Friday to reaffirm his commitment to helping Colorado as it deals with the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
The White House said Saturday that Hickenlooper updated the president about the current conditions on the fire just outside Colorado Springs.
President Obama expressed his concern for the damage that has been caused by the fire that started Tuesday and gave his condolences to the families who have lost relatives.
Nearly 500 homes have been destroyed and two people were killed preparing to flee from the wildfire. Authorities have lifted some evacuation orders and thousands of people are expected to return to their homes Saturday.
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Roku, a company that produces boxes that stream web content to televisions, announced today that it is unveiling a new lineup of devices that feature games and motion controllers.
The company's flagship title at launch is Angry Birds, a game that has already collected tens of millions of users. The controller is similar to the Wii MotionPlus controller from Nintendo. Instead of using infrared light to track a motion controller, it uses an internal set of components that track the controller's orientation. That means the box will register a move to the left or right when you flick the controller.
The device is designed to power 3D graphics. I got to try out Angry Birds on the device (in the video below — I'm not that great at it) and the graphics felt a little sluggish. But given that it's streaming 1080p video from a tiny box to a huge television, that might be par for the course. The device is powered by a system-on-a-chip architecture, so it doesn't carry the same oomph that a PlayStation 3 or a Xbox 360 does.
The controller felt very responsive — on par with the Wii MotionPlus controller. It felt like what was happening on-screen was more or less one-to-one with whatever I was doing with the controller.
The company plans to aggressively add game content to the Roku 2 box. That includes the likes of Pac-Man: Championship Edition and other games from Namco, and more versions of Angry Birds. The company is mostly focusing on casual games that people can just "pick up and play."
It's a new step for a company that has traditionally focused on streaming videos and movies to the TV. Roku was spun out of Netflix three years ago and given the directive to create a box that could stream Netflix content directly to a television. But the company still intends to focus on Netflix as the device's flagship app.
The devices are powered by traditional AA or AAA batteries, depending on the model you choose, or a power cable. They are about 3 inches across by 3 inches long, and about an inch deep. Each model has a bold embossing of its model name — the "XD," "HD" or "XS." The devices are connected to the Internet wirelessly, though the top-level device features a traditional broadband port.
The base-line model costs $60, but doesn't include a game remote and only supports 720p HD video quality. The next step up, the Roku XD, costs $80 and includes Netflix title streaming and supports 1080p HD video quality streaming. Only when you buy the $100 model, though, do you get a game remote (and a "free" full version of Angry Birds).
Each box consumes around 5 watts of power. That's compared to DVR devices — which are known to be electricity vampires — that consume around 30 watts and a PlayStation 3 that consumes around 130 watts at full speed. All three devices feature 256 megabytes of storage with a micro-SD card expansion slot for additional memory.
The company has sold around 1 million Roku boxes to date. You can check out a video of a hands-on experience with the device after the break.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A pair of first-time meets pepper Tennessee Tech's 2011 cross country schedule, which once again features the Golden Eagles' annual home event on Friday, Sept. 30.
The TTU Invitational will serve as the third meet of the season for head coach Tony Cox's team and will be hosted at Southern Hills Golf Course in Cookeville. The event will feature several Ohio Valley Conference squads and give the Golden Eagles a chance to see how they stack up against league competition prior to the end of the season.
Tech begins its slate with a return trip to the Sewanee Invitational, which will be held at Sewanee Golf Course in Sewanee, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 3.
The Golden Eagles then make their first trip to the Georgia State Invitational on Sept. 17, where they will run at Nash Farm Battlefield Park in Hampton, Ga., before returning home to host their own meet on Sept. 30.
In October, Tech will take part in two meets to prepare for the OVC Championships, first traveling to conference foe Jacksonville State on Oct. 8 for the JSU Foothills Invitational, which will be held at Oxford Lakes and Recreation Park in Oxford, Ala.
The Golden Eagles conclude their regular season at the University of Evansville Invitational on Oct. 15 at the UE Cross Country Course.
The OVC Championships begin at 9 a.m. on Oct. 29 and will be hosted by Eastern Kentucky at the Arlington Country Club in Richmond, Ky. Tech will be looking to improve on last year's finishes, in which the women took sixth and the men earned seventh.
The teams will then have the opportunity to compete in the NCAA South Regional.
"I really like our schedule this year," says eighth-year head coach Tony Cox. "We are going to a couple of new meets this year, and the team is excited about going to some different places."
Tech's women have designs on vast improvement from their 2010 finish as they return an intact squad.
Each of the Golden Eagles' top seven runners a season ago was a newcomer. This year, Tech will be anchored primarily by a crop of sophomores who were often the team's top finishers as freshmen a season ago.
Peri Winborne, a rising sophomore from Knoxville, Tenn., led the Golden Eagles at the OVC Championships, placing 30th with a time of 20:01.62. Others expected to earn points for Tech include sophomore Rebecca Cline, senior Leah Bradley, sophomore Beth Miller and sophomore Emily Williams.
Also returning to the squad are sophomore Yeshi Dohrmann, junior Kathryn Forbes, senior Traci Jones, sophomore Amelia McCoy, sophomore Meghan O'Donoghue and senior Emily Weinzetl.
Newcomers to the team include freshmen Kara Webb, Elizabeth Mitchell, Carrie Higgins and Katie McCrary.
The prospect of having a young but experienced squad is one that has Cox excited about the upcoming season.
"We have all the women's team coming back, and they should be significantly better this year," he said. "Having gone through the program for a year will really be valuable to them this year."
While the women's team returns wholly intact, Cox will have some holes to fill on the men's squad, which graduated four of its members last year. The men will also be without senior leadership.
Cox hopes the 2011 serves as a chance to build a foundation for the program for years to come.
"This team is a very close-knit group, and they have been training hard this summer," he said. "They know they will be together another couple of years, and they really want to work together to be as good as possible over the next few years."
Sophomore Matthew Bishop paced the men's squad at the OVC Championships last year and figures to be among the team's leaders in 2011.
Also returning are junior Kolbe Andrzejewski, junior John Greene, junior Nathan Livesey, junior Michael Mahan, sophomore Adam McLeod and sophomore Nathan Snow.
Newcomers include freshmen Charlie Jordan and Matt Pennycuff.
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During the Middle Ages, Michaelmas was celebrated as a Holy Day of Obligation.
It was also one of the English, Welsh and Irish quarter days when accounts had to be settled. On manors, it was the day when a reeve was elected from the peasants. On the Isle of Skye, Scotland, aprocession was held.
Folklore in the British Isles suggests that Michaelmas day is the last day that blackberries can be picked. It is said that when St. Michael expelled Lucifer, the devil, from heaven, he fell from the skies and landed in a prickly blackberry bush. Satan cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, and stamped and spat on them, so that they would be unfit for eating. A Traditional Irish proverb says:
On Michaelmas Day the devil puts his foot on the blackberries. If you have access to blackberries, make this the last picking and eating. Perhaps make a blackberry pie?
The act of giving a Michaelmas Daisy symbolises saying farewell, perhaps in the same way as Michaelmas Day is seen to say farewell to the productive year and welcome in the new cycle.
Traditionally, in the British Isles, a well fattened goose, fed on the stubble from the fields after the harvest, is eaten to protect against financial need in the family for the next year; and as the saying goes:
"Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day,
Want not for money all the year."
In Christianity, the Archangel Michael is the greatest of all the Archangels and is honoured for defeating Lucifer in the war in heaven.[2] He is one of the principal angelic warriors, seen as a protector against the dark of night, and the administrator of cosmic intelligence. Michaelmas has also delineated time and seasons for secular purposes as well, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland as one of the quarter days.
St Michael is also the patron saint of horses and horsemen. This could explain one of the ancient Scottish traditions that used to be practiced on Michaelmas Day. Horse racing competitions in the local communities would be held and small prizes won. However, with a twist, it was the only time at which a neighbour's horse could be taken lawfully the night before and ridden for the entirety of the day, as long as the animal was returned safely!
The Eastern Orthodox Churches do not observe Michaelmas. The Greek Orthodox honour the archangels on 8 November instead.
HolyScripture describes St. Michael as "one of the chief princes," and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been especially honored and invoked as patron and protector by the Church from the time of the Apostles.
Although he is always called "the Archangel," the Greek Fathers and many others place him over all theangels - as Prince of the Seraphim. St. Michael is the patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police and sickness.
Saint Michael the Archangel,
Defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the
Wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him,
We humbly pray.
And do thou,
O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
By the Power of God,
Cast into Hell
Satan and all the evil spirits
which prowl about the world,
Seeking the ruin of souls.
Feastday: September 29
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Who Actually Felt 'Guilty' That They Read The NYTimes Online For Free?
from the living-in-delusion-land deptThe latest news on the NY Times' bizarrely uncompelling paywall experiment is that the people at the NY Times appear to be delusional about it. Peter Kafka has an interview with NYT digital boss Martin Niesenholtz in which he defends the paywall with some strange reasoning... including claiming that people feel guilty reading the NY Times for free:
I think the majority of people are honest and care about great journalism and the New York Times. When you look at the research that we've done, tons of people actually say, "Jeez, we've felt sort of guilty getting this for free all these years. We actually want to step up and pay, because we know we're supporting a valuable institution."A few thoughts on this: first, it's a load of crap. I can't see that passing the laugh test. If they have research that says that, I'm willing to bet the research methodology was done poorly. At best, perhaps they asked the question in a way that made people embarrassed so they felt compelled to answer that way. News is free online. I've never heard anyone feeling "guilty" about not paying for news that was offered up for free on purpose. I mean, it makes you wonder, does anyone feel guilty for paying the subscription fees for a paper copy of the NY Times? After all, the subscription price doesn't even cover the printing and distribution costs, so if people feel guilty for not paying for the reporting, then they ought to feel guilty for paying the paper subscription price. But that's crazy.
More importantly, though, if they really believed that people felt guilty about it, they would just offer them up a way to pay what they wanted, voluntarily. Setting up a paywall with specific (and, at times, nonsensical) rules makes very little sense if you believe the key reason why people will pay is guilt. If the reason to pay is guilt, then just make it easy for people to do a pay what you want offering. But the Times didn't do that because they know, deep down inside, that very few people "feel guilty" for reading the NY Times without paying for it. Thus, they know that just asking people to pay won't work.
So why not just be upfront about why they're putting up the paywall? My guess is that the folks putting this together know deep down inside that this is a disaster in the making. It's why there's no value proposition being added here. All you get is a negative value proposition ("we won't block you at some point"). I doubt that the paywall will be a "disaster," just because the NYT's has a big enough core and loyal audience to get some to pay. I just can't figure out any way that it'll actually serve to really make the company that much money.
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The world of health care is booming and proves to be one of the fastest growing industries today. In a rapidly growing and aging population, this trend is likely to continue for some time, thus creating an abundance of health care related jobs and careers. In health care, your job choices are many and there are careers for those with varying levels of education ranging from a high school diploma to an associate's, bachelor's, masters, or professional degree. Regardless of where you fall in the spectrum of education or experience, this site was designed with one main goal in mind and that is to help you find your ideal place in the health care field.
Because the field of health care is so expansive and there are so many careers to choose from, it is often difficult to know where or how to begin your search. In an effort to simplify this, each health care career is categorized below under one of five health care pathways: direct patient care, imaging and diagnosis, health care facility support, informatics and business, or research and development. Once you have decided which pathway is optimal, energy and focus can be directed towards preparing for a career within that pathway.
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As you explore this site, you will find detailed career profiles with additional career resources designed to answer questions such as, "where do I begin, what type of education or experience do I need to become a....?" Though these resources will not guarantee you job placement in the health care field, they certainly can be utilized as tools to help direct you down the right path. With such resources available at your fingertips, you will find healthcarepathway.com an excellent place to begin your quest, whether it be to start a career in health care or to expand your roles and responsibilities in a current occupation.
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Not only are hands on medical professionals needed more than ever, there is tremendous potential for growth in areas directly related to health care such as health care informatics. Regardless of the career path you choose, you will find that jobs in this sector are plentiful. Whether our are new to the workforce, new to the field of health care, or looking for career change or advancement, there are resources here to be utilized by all.
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MWT Retail Solutions is the versatile leader in the Manufacturing industry of Acrylic Plastic Fabrication, Displays, Point of Sale, Signage products and material supply of all Polycarbonate, Acrylic Plastics and Aluminium Composite Panel. We are proudly 100% Australian and all our products that we produce are Australian Made and manufactured locally in our state of the art Headquarters in Victoria. MWT was established in 2001 and in that time our experienced team have grown to become one of the most reliable, responsive and versatile manufacturing companies in Victoria. We service and deliver to all locations in Australia including all major capital cities and regional centres. We also export to New Zealand. MWT client base encompasses a wide range of industries including Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Construction, Government, Defence, Mining, Gas and Oil, Retail, Health and Hospitality.
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Vodafone India has been awarded seven more blocks in Rajasthan for extending M-Pesa operations that aim at empowering rural women and Self Help Groups.
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You just had to open up old wounds, didn't you Trebek? How GIF is pronounced is a sore subject for many. It is the internet version of the War of the Roses — It's pitted brother against brother, mother against daughter. Friendships have been shattered, families split in twain.
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God forbid, next you'll be going around asking how "doge" is pronounced.
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I am follower of yours thru Google Reader. Thanks for the giveaway!
I visited WW & my favorite one (still) is the scrolly Christmas tree. It would be great to win a vinyl wordy! Thanks.
i am a follower! i also follow shelly and she really is a supermom- own business, creative, lovely home… you two have a lot in common!
i visited wonderfully wordy, and i think i would want a big fat "B" mongram for my front door. that might be cool! there is too much to choose from so i might change my mind…
Im a follower <3!
I'm a follower!
Loving the Laundry Room and Powder Room vinyl, and contemplating a custom order when she starts taking them again!
I am a follower!! :O)
What to choose, what to choose!!! I am torn between the Christmas tree and the Christmas subway vinyl right now!! :O)
I'm a follower!
The subway vinyl!! So cute!
I'm a follower as well!
Love, love, love, the Christmas tree!
Those are so cute and I am a follower!
I'm following you! Great giveaway!
I'm luvin' the family rules lettering.
I'm a follower:)
The scrolly tree or the subway art, I would be happy with either one.
I'm a follower!
How funny! I follow both ya'lls blog! Love her vinyls, especially her pantry…if I didn't have 5 kids who practically live in there I would so redo it. Love your blog.
I am a follower!
I just popped over to Wonderfully Wordy and there are so many fun choices! I love all of her Christmas vinyls…the Christmas tree is great! I also love the subway art. It's a very nice giveaway. Thank you for the chance.
Hi Shaunna, please count me in as I just love that large Christmas scroll. Thanks again. 😉
I'm a follower! 🙂
I am a recent follower, came to visit from Shelly's. I LOVE the Christmas tree!!!! Lovely blog, thank you for having me :)
Follower on reader. Would LOVE to win!!!
I follow – thanks for the chance to win! I just love the MERRY on the balls and CHRISTMAS on the sign (sigh!)…
I am a new follower!!
I love the large scroll Christmas tree!
I'm a new follower!
My fave Wonderfully Wordy item is the Welcome decal! I'd love to put one on my front door 🙂
I'm a follower 🙂
i'm a recent new follower of the house of smiths…i spent all last weekend reading her site….she really got me inspired to redo my pantry..redo and organize that is…LOVE her ideas!
i posted this on facebook!
i'm a new follower!
I follow :)
I love "Bless this Home and All Who Enter"
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I'm a follower, and I would love to win. Thank you!
I follow your blog now!
I love all of Shelley's work, but I die for that Christmas tree decal she made for her mantel display!
I'm a follower of Shelley's! LOVE her work! I would LOVE the scroll Christmas Tree! I now follow you too!! LOVE your work too!
I'm a follower
I am a new follower. I use Google Reader 🙂
I really love House of Smiths. I have been a follower for a little while now. I plan on making her ironing board holder for my laundry room. I LOVE IT! So, I'd have to say that my favorite vinyl is that one. 🙂
I am a follower of your blog!!
I love her labels for her sugar, flour, etc…
I am a follower!!
I'm a new Google follower!
Thanks so much for the giveaway! I follow Shelley too, and have loved the scrolly Christmas tree since she first posted it!
I like several from her website, A cute laundry room, the Pantry, the Powder Room. Maybe some labels for pantry items… tough decision!
I am a follower! Thanks for the chance!
I loooooove the scrolly Christmas tree decal!
Of course I follow your blog! who wouldn't?
I love Shelley's work. My favorite (most practical for me) are the pantry labels(flour, sugar, etc etc).
I also follow house of smith's AND woderfully wordy!
I'm a follower!!!
I LOVE the Scroll Christmas Tree from WV! So pretty!!
I'm a follower!
I tweeted!!
I found you through Shelly,I am a new follower!
I just became a follower. I really like the family rules vinyl. Thanks for the chance to win. I love house of smith's blog!
I like the laundry vinyls.
I am a follower now!
I am liking the labels for the canisters….I have been wanting to do that, but haven't! 🙂
I think I love everything at Wonderfully Wordy. Her skillz are mad! The whole entire Christmas Collection is stunning. The Halloween collection was so creative and clever. And I've been eying those "flour, sugar…" labels since she first re-did her pantry. So, for me to pick a single favorite would be nearly impossible.
I'm a follower!
I love, love, love the scroll Christmas tree
Just became a follower!!
I love love love the kitchen aid mixer decals, especially the subway art one!!
I follow you.. 🙂
I am a follower and already a loyal fan and customer of Ms. Shelly! So excited that you teamed up with her for this giveaway!
I follow House of Smiths also.. Love her decals for mixers 🙂
Oh…and I LOVE her new Subway art for the kitchenaid mixers! So creative!
Oh I am SO a follower of yours! You are awesome! And now, I may just have to follow house of smiths as well!
I just made my way over from Shelley's blog and I'm so glad I did – I'll be a follower here from now on too! :o)
I pretty much love everything Shelley creates…but I've been drooling over that fun Christmas Tree image ever since she shared it on her blog! :o)
I follow through googlereader! email@example.com
Love the Christmas tree vinyl.
I'm a follower! Her design aesthetic is amazing!
One of my favorite things on her site are the decals for laundry! Would love to win this 🙂
Hi, I am a follower. Great blog.
I love shelly's scroll christmas tree. It is the perfect decoration!!!
I'm definately a follower!!!
I love the Merry Christmas ornaments! Love it all though!
I'm a follower for sure!
I am a follower. Love vinyl!
I'm a follower through google!
I love Shelley's scroll Christmas tree! So creative & unique! 🙂
I have been watching the large scroll tree. She has such adorable and unique vinyl.
I'm a blog follower 🙂
I've just shared on facebook!
i am a follower!
I am a follower and love your blog!
I just blogged about this awesome giveaway!
my favorite Christmas vinyl is the subway art!!! LOVE it.
I visited WW and my favorite is the large scroll Christmas tree.
I shared this giveaway on FB too.
my favorite ww is the xmas subway art. But also love the labels for pantry items.
I'm a new follower of yours! I've followed Shelley for quite a while and love love love her Christmas set!
I love the wash. dry. fold. repeat. sign for the laundry room. With 3 little kids I know this drill all too well!
Tweet Tweet!
And I posted on my blog! But my blog is private 🙂
I'm a new follower
Love her Xmas Subway Art, but anything she does is great!
posted on my FB
I just became a follower. LOVE your blog! Can't wait to check everything out.
I love Shelley's vinyl and her blog. She's awesome. I really like the small scroll tree though in that beautiful green. And the number vinyl is delightful.
I love all of the Christmas decals especially the Subway art!
I am a new follower;)
I am a follower!
I'm in love with her "hey good lookin' what you got cookin'" vinyl and just about everything else in her shop!
I am a follower of you and Shelley. My favourite is the Christmas subway art. Love–love–love!!!
I am a Follower!!
I love the kitchen aid designs!
Liked on facebook and posted!
I just became a follower!
I LOVE the Christmas subway art!
I'm now a follower and love your ideas. I've been following Shelley and love her scroll Christmas tree.
I'm a new follower!
I love the "flour, sugar . . . " labels!
Posted to facebook!
Found your blog through Shelly's – beautiful! I am now a follower!
I love the scroll tree!
I am in love with the Large Scroll Christmas Tree, especially on the framed glass.
The the Christmas Tree Scroll and Psalm 46:10
I'm a follower. I like the Christmas tree stickers.
Love love love the Kitchenaid mixer decals!! Too darn cute!
Put ya on FB! 🙂
I am a follower! Love your blog!
I also blogged about the giveaway: http://gimlinfamily.blogspot.com/2010/12/gimme-gimme-gimme.html
I've been watching Shelly for a while and love her style, her vinyl and of course Shelly her self!! She's totally cracks me up!!
At the moment I'm over the moon for her Christmas tree 25 windows. I just wrote her this morning telling her I had a shed full of windows & I think they all need a little vinyl.
I love Shelly! I love the Christmas Tree or Subway art!!!!
I am a follower, and have been of Wonderfully Wordy!
My favorite items are the numbers that you would put on the back of the dining room chairs. I love that each person has a number to sit at.
I'm a follower! Love it!
I just facebooked about the giveaway:
I love the swirly Christmas tree! Simple yet elegant!
Oh I posted on FB (I also have you on my facebook)
Love House of Smiths Blog and vinyl recently became a follower of yours and I would love the christmas tree decal. Love it!!!
I am follower of yours thru Google Reader.
I love the canister labels!
I am a follower of your blog!
I love the kitchenaid mixer vinyl!!
I tweeted this giveaway! Woo hoo!!
I'm a follower!
I love her glass canister labels!
I'm a follower! And naturally would looooove a bundle of Christmas goodies!
I love that Christmas tree vinyl she put on the window!
I am a follower 🙂
I love her new ones that she posted today for her gift ideas!
I just love all of Shelleys stuff.. I am a follower
I've been looking at Shelley's vinyl words for a while now and I'm in love with them ALL! I love the new on she came up with about the mistletoe 🙂 And I am now a follower of Perfectly Imperfect!
I've been a happy follower for a while now, Shaunna! Be right back…..going to check out Shelley's place to pick out my fav! :)
LUV Shelley's lettering, Shaunna! Thank you for the scoop on her great blog! I'm her newest follower. I adore the mistletoe saying! So cute! The Christmas subway art is adorable, too!
I'm a follower!
I love the Christmas tree and subway art.
I am a follower.
Following YOU!
I love that CHRISTMAS tree one…and just about EVERYTHING ELSE she makes!!!!
I have been following House of Smiths for awhile now and love all the creative use those words get around her house!
I posted it on facebook!
I love Wonderfully Wordy's large scroll Christmas tree!
Posted the giveaway on Facebook! Would love to have some vinyl letters of my own!
I am a follower of your blog! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I really love that scroll tree…so pretty!!
I tweeted about this giveaway!
I also posted a link to this giveaway on my FB page.
I am a follower! I love Shelley's vinyl! I think my fav Christmas decal is her scroll tree — sooo beautiful! Here's hopin!
I LOVE everything she does, but the saying: Home- Where The People You Love Gather really hits home.
Just like sheep……….I am a follower!
OK, you are also now on my facebook
I am a follower and I LOVE this giveaway! I'm a follower of Shelley's blog too and I think she's amazing!
I went to the Wonderfully Wordy website and my favorite is the Christmas subway sign…so cute!!
I'm a Follower.
I love her Kitchen Aid decal. Too cute for words.
I love it all, so hard to choose. The Christmas subway art is adorable.
I am a new follower! Thank you so much for a wonderful giveaway.
Ooh, so much fun. I'm a follower. 🙂
I love all of Shelly's stuff esp her subway art pieces.
I would love to win I love all her work love the subway art so hard to choose!! Love it all!!
I'm a follower too!
I'm a follower of your wonderful blog!! And of Shelley's blog, love them both!!!
I love the subway art in all the frames and love all the stuff on the little wood blocks!!
Just posted this giveaway on my Fb page!! 🙂
I am a follower!
I love the Christmas subway art!
I posted on my facebook as well! Love it!
I am a follower!
I absolutely love the "I love you to the moon" vinyl! I would love to have that in my girl's room!!
I posted on my facebook 😀
I follow you on google reader and love your blog!!! I am also a follower of House of Smith's. Shelly is just adorable ,don't you think? She is so creative and has inspired me to do a pantry and laundry makeover so I would love to have the pantry vinyl or the laundry vinyl, but I also love the scroll christmas tree! What can I say, I love all her stuff!!
i have been obsessed with shelly for a while!! i follow house of smiths!
i follow YOU and cannot wait to have a house to mimic half the creativity you channel in your home!
i love all her vinyl in the shop and would want the kitchenaid mixer vinyl! or the jars to keep my life more organized! Love this giveaway!!!
I love vinyls! Found your site through hers… Can't wait to browse over your blog now.. be blessed, Anne
I also just became a follower… Anne
I'm a follower!
Some of my favorite WW vinyls are the baking supplies labels (i.e. flour, sugar, etc.)
I follow your awesome blog through Google reader. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love the little sign that says May your days be merry and bright! Thanks for the chance to win!
I facebooked it too.
I am a follower of yours.
I am a follower of House of Smith and I love the Christmas tree, that is one of my favorites.
I'm a follower!
I found your blog from house and smiths and will now be your follower too! I love her vinyls; particularly the ones for pantry items
I love the Christmas tree made of all the swirlies
I blogged it! :)
I'm a follower… woot woot 🙂 Love wonderfully wordy!
I am in love with that scrolly christmas tree!!
I am a follower
I LOVE all the Christmas designs. I can't even choose
Love the mistletoe idea!
Now a follower 🙂
I love the Scrolly Tree
I am a new follower! Love your blog!!
I am a new follower~! Love your blog!!:)
I would love to get my hands on the fabulous christmas tree design…and I love those pantry labels as well…!
I'm a follower!
I'm a new fan of vinyls! I would like to have the Christas one shown on this post. It's so simple but very pretty!
I am a follower and I am drooling over your beautiful blog!
just became a follower, love your blog


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RV satellite antenna supplier Winegard Co. announced that Bill Adams will be joining the Burlington, Iowa-based company's dealer training team.
According to a press release, Adams brings nearly a dozen years of experience in selling and installing satellite TV antennas on RVs for his own business. Adams will travel the western U.S. and Canada to train RV dealer technicians on proper installation and troubleshooting techniques for Winegard antenna products, such as TRAV'LER, RoadTrip and Sensar. He joins Winegard veteran dealer training specialist Mike Barum, who will focus his efforts on the eastern U.S.
Prior to joining Winegard, Adams and his wife Janet owned and operated their mobile installation and service company, RV Satellite Sales and Service and Internet Anywhere, and has been a Winegard dealer/installer since 2000. They will be living and traveling in their own RV, attending and supporting dealer open houses and rally events in addition to their dealer training activities.
"We are excited to have Bill join our team," said Aaron Engberg, director of mobile products for Winegard. "Because of his experience, he has instant credibility with our dealer base and th eir customers and he understands the importance of great customer service. Winegard will now be able to better respond to the high demand for our training, which will ultimately improve our relations with dealers and thus the overall customer experience."
Winegard's four-hour training course, which is also certified by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's (RVIA) continuing education requirements, covers new products, installation and troubleshooting, receivers/programming and helpful online resources. While the program is geared for the techs, it is also beneficial for customer service and sales personnel that handle customer questions or deal with quoting installation prices.
Since launching the training program back in 2005, over 1,000 dealerships and just under 5,000 technicians have completed the program. To request Winegard training, click here.