tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221897962012-01-02T04:12:46.702ZSecurity, Virtualization, & Performance, at 360isMarknoreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-55957410575271346512011-12-30T08:13:00.000Z2011-12-30T08:13:05.454Z

Cambridge Display Technology is a UK-founded company that is leading the development of display technology based on polymer organic light emitting diodes. Their technology is used in mobile devices, screens and lighting. The company employs hundreds of scientists, engineers, and supporting staff around the world. The company needed a high performance desktop virtualisation solution that would

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2011 was another year of growth for 360is and for many of those with whom we work. Our base of Financial Services clients has seen a rebound since the darker days of 2009, and we have continued to expand into Scientific and Research Intensive sectors with several new projects and clients in Cambridge. As a result of this, we were pleased to welcome another Cambridge-based senior consultant to the

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360is have recently completed a data centre migration from our primary location (shared with the Manchester University Supercomputer) into a new facility nearby. We continue to maintain a presence at both sites, which have layer-2 adjacency. The motivation for the move? Power costs. UK consumers are seeing domestic bills increase this year up by 18% for gas and 10% for electricity. The UK

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We'd like to welcome another new consultant to 360is. Miles is an ex-UUNET consultant who worked with 360is founders in the 90's, where he  specialised in secure Internet gateway deployments and UNIX/Solaris hosting. At UUNET he managed the secure Internet gateway infrastructure for BP/Amoco at 7 international sites. Back then, Miles drew the short straw and did all the on-site work in Bogota.

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Three Sixty will be present at the 2011 Defence & Security Equipment International, held at at the Excel Center, East London, between City Airport and Canary Wharf. Between the 14th and 16th September we shall join with our clients and partners in the exhibition hall, briefings, and break-out sessions. Just as in 2009, the 2011 the conference will be attended by a range of military, intelligence

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There is now a LinkedIn group for those end users running or evaluating Citrix XenServer in the City Of London. New members shall need to be approved before being able to post (to keep the SPAM out) but otherwise the group is open to members. Feel free to invite your colleagues and contacts. Discussions can only be read by other members of the group. This group operated for the benefit of end

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Maximising Virtual Machine Density is one of the few topics that is of interest to both engineers and business managers alike. With recent announcements from VMware, even Procurement and Finance Directors have reason to show an interest in this subject. Being able to run a very large number of Virtual Machines on a very small number of physical hardware platforms (servers, switches, storage,

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Industry analysts never seem to tire of debating factors that drive IT spending, it may be their favourite subject. In our experience, IT spending is driven primarily by 4 factors: Your choice of products and technologies Your business processes How your organisation is structured The way in which you interface with customers If you are a CIO (or more likely in UK companies, an IT Manager), the

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This year our normal New Year message to clients and partners comes exactly one month late. Another way to look at it (with the Chinese New Year starting February 3rd) is that we are bang on time. 一个好年头 (Another Good Year) 2010 was another year of growth for 360is with more clients in new sectors and a formalised datacenter performance practice. We deepened our profile in Private Equity with

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“A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top” - James Reston, Journalist Rarely does a story with a strong information security thread garner quite so much attention in the mainstream press. However, when the leaking of secret state information is combined with pent-up public interest in subject matter like current and future adventures in the middle east, climate change, the

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Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001 and was deployed widely until the end of 2006 when IE7 appeared. Although a 2001 browser should be ancient history, IE6 has proved hard to dislodge from corporate desktops, in spite of concerted efforts by Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft. Internet Explorer 9 went into beta a month and a half ago. If you work for a young company, or keep

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-10586051321553965882010-09-14T11:42:00.000+01:002010-09-14T11:42:07.084+01:00

Back in April we discussed XenServer's recent submission to the Common Criteria (CC) scheme. Based upon previous evaluations, we predicted a 6-month end-to-end process. True to form the guys at SiVenture have delivered on time. As is common with other virtualization technologies that have been through the CC process, the investigation work centered around separation of virtual machines, their

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Sooner or later someone important asks you the awkward question.      "So what happens if…"      ......nobody can get in to our office?      ......the power goes out in our building?      ......there is a flood?      ......the datacentre is ransacked?      ......our network is cut? Power companies, telcos, and data centre operators all strive for 100% uptime, their marketing literature is

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It's a familiar story. The client had wanted to move to a virtualised data centre for some time but non-essential IT spending had been frozen. They took a 10% haircut across IT in the past 18 months and most of their contractors had been dropped, but after a long cold winter they were coming out of hibernation as business improved. The call came in first to the notional head of IT. As in so

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As a result of our growth last year, we'd like to welcome 2 new consultants to 360is. Wynn was a contractor running the virtualised infrastructure for a financial services company, and is taking on part of the responsibility for customer support. After only a month he has proven an invaluable addition to the team. Iain we discovered as an independent contractor attending one of our training

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-44471919115643720582010-04-14T14:25:00.001+01:002010-09-14T12:07:46.523+01:00

As some of you already know, Citrix have sponsored XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp, and Netscaler into the Common Criteria program for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC). We have had several questions about the announcement and what it means for both VMware and XenServer in particular. Since 1 or 2 of us at 360is were there way-back when Common Criteria & ITSEC first started seeing

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-74524175322857745662010-03-19T09:01:00.000Z2010-03-19T09:01:16.030Z

The Virtual Machine Company seminar is now available for download. For details of the agenda and material covered please see the original invite here. We are making it available as a 40MB Powerpoint (pps) file. Download it here (registration required).

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NOTE: This entry was written for XenServer v5.0 and 5.5 and may not be applicable to 5.6. If you would like 5.6 compatibility then let us know and we'll consider updating this post. We are big fans of Sun Solaris at 360is. Particularly for anything mission critical or when infrastructure is needed that requires little or no maintenance. Features like Zones, Dtrace, ZFS, and Live Upgrade, make

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-41096990680800551712010-03-01T22:45:00.006Z2010-03-02T18:12:35.758Z

Over the last 12 months we have seen a sharp increase in clients targeting poor performance of systems and applications, particularly around storage, virtualization, and wide area networking. As a result of which we have formalised our professional services for performance investigation, reporting, and remediation. We call this our Performance Expert Service.We provide fixed-fee projects where

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-9105502854322677952010-02-22T18:51:00.025Z2010-03-19T08:50:38.124Z

We are holding a 15 minute webinar on choosing dedicated virtualization hardware. Some of you will have already received the invite directing you to register. Click on the date below to register for a place and receive the calendar appointment and PDF agenda via Email. Nearer the date and time you will also receive a brief Email reminder. Save the date: 10am, Friday 19th March 2010, to be held

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-66883476694720608022010-02-03T09:58:00.005Z2010-02-03T10:10:56.385Z

Its been a while since our last Solaris/OpenSolaris post. Now, like buses, suddenly 2 come along at once. Both are related to performance, the first (this one) is about benchmarking Solaris versus other mainstream Operating Systems. The second will follow in a few days, and is about maximising Solaris performance when virtualized on XenServer.Most people see Solaris as extremely reliable, but one

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-40441584017051529842009-12-15T10:38:00.012Z2009-12-15T21:00:17.256Z

Where has this year gone?We have acquired many new clients in 2009, some in new sectors such as Biotech and Scientific Research (outside of our historical finance and telecoms verticals). We have seen increasing crossover between our security work and the data centre practice, as clients seek to protect their estates "post-consolidation", and vendors introduce virtual versions of traditional

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-91075620766712552402009-11-16T13:52:00.005Z2009-11-16T15:20:18.085Z

360is were delighted to be able to take part in this months virtualization round-table, held at Incisive Media's central London offices. We spoke alongside representatives from Microsoft and Computerlinks. The panel debated the mainstream adoption of virtualization occurring now the software is mostly free, virtual desktop infrastructure, and the skills gap that exists in many IT/MIS departments

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We are holding an invitation-only seminar on mission critical & production systems virtualization in November. Some of you will have already received the invite directing you to register.Choose the date/location below to book your place and receive the calendar appointment and PDF agenda via Email.19th November: Royal Mint, Royal Mint Court, London, EC3N 4HJ.26th November: Trinity Centre, Milton

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-37625428641118336382009-09-18T15:50:00.001+01:002009-09-18T19:34:10.811+01:00

360is are delighted to be the first UK reseller awarded Platinum status in recognition of their achievements as the partner with the highest unit shipments in 1H 2009.360is continue to see strong growth in the hardware virtual appliance market, fueled by tightening operating expenditure, increased hosting/colo costs, and growing adoption of virtualization in business critical infrastructure.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-71836150408111606402009-08-19T17:11:00.003+01:002009-08-19T17:22:55.279+01:00

Back in June we gave away a new TomTom GO 530 SatNav system. We can now announce the lucky winner as Ms K.Pavitt, who registered an opportunity with us for a virtualization project beginning in August. Congratulations!

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-66609888488318683032009-08-17T13:31:00.005+01:002009-09-18T22:45:36.428+01:00

Wren Academy is a new 1000-place secondary school in the London Borough of Barnet. The Academy, specialising in Design and the Built Environment, offers state-of-the-art ICT facilities. Over £1 million will be spent on hardware and infrastructure supporting the aspiration that every student will have plentiful access to Information Technology.360is is rolling out a complete campus-wide VDI

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-20635651915381765262009-06-22T11:58:00.007+01:002009-06-22T13:41:50.950+01:00

The acquisition of Virtual Iron was announced by Oracle on the 13th May this year. Oracle already had its own OracleVM product and can now add Sun's xVM software to the pot. Both of those products are (like Virtual Iron) based on open source Xen.While this consolidation is good for customers in the long term, providing 3 strong competitors to the incumbent VMware, in the short term it was hard to

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-17982502843747677982009-06-01T16:28:00.005+01:002009-06-01T20:04:07.939+01:00

360is has been operating since 2002, our consultants have been advising UK companies since the early 90's. Over the years we've been asked many times for case studies on Security Assessments, Penetration Tests, and Post Incident Investigations. Up to now we have always resisted, for reasons of customer confidentiality and because most of our clients are still referred to us by word of mouth.We

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-38447731950517281102009-05-11T12:45:00.005+01:002009-05-29T10:33:40.483+01:00

If you register your Virtualization or Security Service, support or training requirement with us before the end of June 2009, and attend a meeting with one of our consultants, you will be entered into a prize draw for a TomTom GO 530 Sat Nav system.To register your project and to arrange a meeting, email your contact details and an outline of your requirement to Rob Gilson. Details of the lucky

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-27145749178440116512009-05-02T23:07:00.010+01:002009-05-07T15:41:16.344+01:00

Over the last 3 years, our consultants have delivered about 50 virtualization projects for clients as far away as India. We have worked with all the major hardware and software vendors to solve real business problems. A few of these experiences were captured as case studies and can now be made available to you.What makes these documents a little more interesting than an average case study is that

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-50203402990557168432009-03-30T09:52:00.010+01:002009-04-28T06:23:50.242+01:00

Since XenServer was made freely available for download a few weeks ago, there has been a surge in companies new to virtualization, taking their first steps into this area. As you would expect, this has resulted in lots of questions on the user forum and calls to our help desk.360is have produced a XenServer administrators poster, in A4 format, for both new and experienced admins to download for

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-33188492591004971162009-02-26T21:46:00.013Z2009-03-07T11:24:30.142Z

Many of you will already be aware that Citrix has just announced that XenServer Enterprise (the version of Xen many of our clients run) is to be made available free of charge. A new enhanced version of XenServer called "Essentials" is being launched. Essentials has sophisticated Lab-Manager, Orchestration, and Workflow functionality along with integration to Hyper-V and the Microsoft stack. It is

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-11698080338548508252009-02-07T18:23:00.003Z2009-02-13T19:45:00.689Z

You can now find us more easily in the following online business directories:Yahoo UK, under IT Consultants.Google Local, under IT Consultants in London.London Directory.ITNerd, under IT Consultants.The UK Business Directory, under Independent Consultancies.

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The recent availability of Microsoft Hyper-V has generated an enormous amount of interest and inevitable questions for our sales engineers. If you have a project on plan this year and want to discuss it in person with one of our consultants then contact us. Meanwhile I'd like to take this opportunity to dispel some myths and inform a few truths about this triumvirate facing IT managers in 2009.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-28630871803556472392008-12-17T12:39:00.010Z2009-02-28T11:03:29.870Z

What is Information Assurance (IA)? Why is it so hard for organisations, large and small, public and private to achieve? When there is a failure of IA why don't the causes get put right? For the answers to these and other questions take a look at the latest issue of the UK National Computing Centre magazine. 360is Principal Consultant discusses Information Assurance and addresses the root cause

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-82339180660382215082008-11-16T21:50:00.004Z2009-02-11T11:51:54.160Z

The amount of 360is articles, whitepapers, software, and interviews has grown to such a degree this year that we have decided to collect them all in one place for easy reference. The 360is Resources section is the place to go for all this information, freely provided by our experienced consultants. Over the coming months look out for new material.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-72466109755853410592008-10-27T16:06:00.003Z2009-02-11T11:53:35.366Z

IT workers in the city are beginning the annual job of updating their CV early this year, who can blame them. 360is has negotiated a 10% discount from training partner vTrain for students quoting reference 360NOV. vTrain offer short, sharp certified courses for virtualization technologists covering Citrix Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft Hyper-V, based either at your own premises or their dedicated

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-86888735068005993162008-10-20T14:18:00.005+01:002009-02-11T11:52:15.501Z

360is Principal Consultant, Nick Hutton, is a guest speaker at a breakfast briefing at the Royal Society for the Appreciation of Arts, London on Wednesday October 22nd 2008. The subject for the briefing is "The Insider Threat" and the event will be attended by CSOs and IT managers. Also speaking at the event:Geoff Harris, President of the Information Systems Security Association in the UKDamir

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-18322461296612702262008-09-02T11:34:00.006+01:002009-02-11T11:52:45.915Z

SteelEye's Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer is now certified for mission critical use on the 360is v1624 virtualization hardware appliance. SteelEye joins VMWare and Citrix XenServer as the 3rd software vendor to achieve this certification on the v1624 hardware appliance.The certification allows SteelEye, Citrix, and VMWare customers to benefit from higher uptime and faster Disaster

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-79968325888035275592008-08-28T10:33:00.005+01:002009-03-13T11:19:57.815Z

The cost of provisioning a server or desktop has collapsed thanks to virtualization, thin client, multicore CPUs and ubiquitous gigabit networking in the data centre. Indeed, in the last 3 years virtualization software itself has tumbled in price from thousands of dollars per unit and is now given away for free with many Operating Systems.So what happens when server hardware reaches true

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-17162384408012852822008-07-14T09:41:00.007+01:002009-02-11T11:54:16.683Z

360is is running an invitation only seminar on the 21st July at Chalfont Park, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks. The theme is mission critical and production systems virtualization. If you are an existing customer then you should have already been contacted, however there will be a few extra places available. The agenda includes a preview of Citrix Xen v4.2, disaster recovery and business continuity

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-70885673194998185602008-06-26T10:01:00.008+01:002009-02-11T11:54:37.592Z

Steve Barnett has been an associate of the company for several years since 360is founders worked with him during their time at Unipalm PIPEX in Cambridge UK. We are now delighted to announce his official appointment as the first member of our advisory board.Steve brings with him a wealth of experience and contacts in the IT Security sector, having established CheckPoint's operations in Europe

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-9766823119961322382008-06-23T11:41:00.006+01:002009-02-11T11:57:03.998Z

We are delighted to announce the opening of our Scotland office, and the appointment of Bill McMillan as regional sales manager for Scottish and Borders clients. Bill has a long history in the enterprise storage industry and will be managing our existing clients and growing the business in this region. Call us to discuss your requirements.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1983382031046635042008-05-26T12:18:00.004+01:002008-05-26T12:23:53.021+01:00

We are pleased to welcome the clients and staff of Datacenter Services Ltd to the group. DSL is a specialist in Server Virtualization and was established by some of the people behind Citrix XenSource biggest UK reseller. DSL provides products and services to allow clients to take full advantage of virtualization in mission critical environments, and counts some of the UK largest users of

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-49855951390905536242008-05-11T21:59:00.005+01:002008-08-15T17:19:20.966+01:00

By popular demand, and after many emails from readers of our previous post, we have now released an scponly package for Solaris 10 on SPARC. The package is available for download here. Thanks go to Keith, Jarrod, Jimmy, Dan, and all the rest of you who reminded us.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-71965944353461563762008-04-25T15:26:00.009+01:002008-05-30T11:51:37.659+01:00

Today we have a guest blogger! Steve has been a long-standing friend of the company and has been involved in the IT security industry since the early 1990's, where he managed the European Operations of CheckPoint. We caught up at one of Europe's busiest events, the Infosec Show at London Olympia.Here's what he had to say.Being the first day of the Infosecurity Show in London my eye was caught by

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-18613961201619617372008-03-30T16:04:00.031+01:002009-02-11T11:58:00.394Z

Our consultants are often contacted by Network Operators to audit and improve security. Having spent our formative years at the worlds largest ISP, Telco security is a subject close to our hearts. Mobile Network Operators face some particularly unique challenges. They have all the normal concerns of a business dependent on IT, plus the added requirement that they must secure the network while

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-75552931934812475942007-12-11T12:56:00.000Z2007-12-11T13:01:13.702Z

My esteemed colleague at 360is, Nick Hutton, has been on the post again. He's written a short article for Exaprotect on the ROI of security and how vendors often choose to sell security based on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.Wander on over to Exaprotect's site for an informed read.

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-31272499241740139202007-10-21T11:33:00.001+01:002008-04-12T11:46:36.273+01:00

There are many choices for authentication in the UNIX operating system, and PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) gives a flexible and powerful interface to many of them.Over at http://pam-mysql.sourceforge.net you can download source for a PAM module that allows authentication against MySQL - very handy. At 360is we have a managed email solution that permits virtual domain information to be

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-60534272788595995292007-10-10T13:51:00.000+01:002007-11-08T19:42:41.884Z

One of the banes of our lives whilst doing vulnerability assessments of Solaris has been finding what process owns a given TCP port that may be listening. On Linux this is easy to establish with a 'netstat -p', but Solaris has always called for the additional lsof package to help out. You could always mess about with pfiles to find the answer, but now somebody has kindly written a wrapper around

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-68858530790248780862007-09-14T17:07:00.001+01:002009-02-11T11:58:57.338Z

First published in early 2003, "Executive Intelligence" is the quarterly security briefing provided by 360is to our current clients. The briefing is extended to all former clients. Now in its 5th year, it is one of the longest running UK information security publications. No spam, no hype, no advertorial, just the facts 4 times a year, delivered to you as a PDF. For the first time ever, we have

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730250418591276136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-61186747417017751702007-08-21T17:52:00.001+01:002008-04-12T11:47:37.940+01:00

A common situation we come across is one of allowing people secure filecopying to a system, but without giving full shell access to the system at the same time.We've long since recommended scponly, which is a great solution to this very problem. scponly is a shell for UNIX systems that allows just that - scp/sftp only, with no access to an actual shell.Today we were implementing this on a Solaris

Marknoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-3871365726181731692007-08-17T10:41:00.000+01:002007-08-17T10:55:51.289+01:00

Here at 360is we've been using some common tools for a number of years - because, despite looking elsewhere, these tools have proven again and again to be great at the jobs they set out to do.So we've picked out our most frequently recommended pieces of software and investigated them in more detail - the people behind them, how they came about, and what makes them worth using.The seven are: nmap,

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-83392381431271376022007-08-17T10:26:00.001+01:002007-08-17T10:30:10.563+01:00

My esteemed colleague here at 360is, Nick Hutton, has written a great article about security whitelisting.In case you're not familiar with the phrase, security whitelisting takes the opposite (and some would say far more sensible) approach to security than we do today.Go have a read of the article to get in the know.

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-70743368365932601792007-05-15T10:56:00.000+01:002007-08-17T10:40:18.442+01:00

Here at 360is we're big fans of UNIX. Predominantly we use Sun Solaris, with some FreeBSD and Linux for specific tasks. Our desktop of choice is Mac OS X - founded on UNIX. We prefer UNIX over Microsoft's offering because of the flexibility and accountability of the systems. You can always get to the bottom of a problem.There are plenty of other reasons too, but here's a good enough reason alone

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1171987566386943782007-02-20T15:51:00.000Z2007-05-15T16:19:56.832+01:00

Most of the work we undertake is a mixture of penetration testing, audits, post-incident clean-up, and secure infrastructure deployment. However, over the last 12 months we have repeatedly been called upon to rescue failed or failing projects around the area of Security Event and Information Management (SEM/SIEM). We've collected all the knowledge gained in these "rescue projects" and have

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1141864301742451642006-03-09T00:28:00.000Z2007-05-15T16:20:19.929+01:00

360is would like to announce a new edition of "Executive Intelligence" the digest for CIO, Chief Security Officer, and IT managers. It features news, world events, and conclusions intended to help security conscious executives prepare for the future. Managed Security Service Providers use this to add value and uniqueness to their existing infrastructure-based offerings. Easily re-branded, it can

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1141859063931132802006-03-01T09:36:00.000Z2007-11-08T19:45:39.146Z

Three Sixty Information Security today announced the completion of its web site re-design located at www.360is.com. The new site is optimised to be quicker and easier to use, while offering more detailed information on our individual services. As a supporter of Open Source software, 360is have ensured that the site is compatible with all major browsers.About Three Sixty Information Security

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1141861301491162282006-01-07T11:30:00.000Z2007-05-15T16:22:13.071+01:00

Today Three Sixty Information Security launched two new services after successfully concluding bespoke projects for clients in 2005. The IDS Tune-up service is designed to get maximum value from clients existing investment in Intrusion Detection Systems. Our consultants have found that many companies are not getting the most from their IDS, and do not have the time or expertise to fine tune these

Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22189796.post-1141866100015586802005-10-27T18:44:00.000+01:002007-05-15T16:22:48.033+01:00

At a time when the market is crowded with managed security providers, questions remain over whether telecoms operators are well placed to offer security services alongside their existing network solutions. 360is consultants are quoted extensively in this article which offers advice to the telecoms operators seeking a place in the managed security market. The full text of the article is available

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