Comments and Suggestions
These products are in their infancy. The core technology was first created in late 1999 for ‘millenium bug’ projects. It does the seemingly impossible and doing that was not without issues. It has been worked and reworked over the years and is very robust. However these applications, which, for the technically minded, are WPF xbap applications, are recent creations, utilising the engine.
The beauty of our approach to network scanning/auditing is that our applications simply request information from the network & the devices within it. If they are unavailable for any reason and the requests go unanswered, our applications...
I Can't Get Sacked For Buying......
IBM/Microsoft/any other major brand. If you’re in IT (and you are) you’ve heard this or similar. Buy the safe option and cover your back. Why? Because they are the best innovators, provide the best service, that sort of thing yes of course. But is that true, was it ever? Maybe there was a time but they get big, they get complacent and rot sets in.
Remember that these Icons of IT buy smaller companies to acquire their intellectual property (e.g. Visio) so they are not the only ones capable of a good idea. Service? Well we’ve all seen industry...
Compliance and the Recession
Well, compliance won’t go away just because of a recession. I recently watched an interview with Dr. Michael Lynch of Autonomy (the UK’s equivalent of Bill Gates) in which he was asked about the effects of the current economic climate on IT. His response was that one of the safest areas was that of compliance because management had a legal responsibility and could be held personally responsible in some cases; and there was nothing more likely to motivate budget approval than personal risk.
That said, things are tight for everyone at the moment and no one can afford to be...
Agentless versus Agent Based
Not that old chestnut…
In the world of IT asset management / audit there are basically two fundamental approaches; agent based or agentless. The former requires the deployment of software (the agent) , manually or via an automated process onto each and every computer / network device (where possible) on the audit target network; and, in the case of one off audits, the removal of agents on completion. The latter however …. does not!
Now I am going to level with you right up front. As a vendor of agentless auditing and systems management software I am a tad biased;...