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The link above should take you to TechRepublic’s “Top 5 reasons why Project Management fails in most of the company. It is an amazing list, of course with my view. Especially I like the point #3.
Personally I’ve felt in many occasions, that a task is complicated unnecessarily to “fit the process” rather than “fitting the process to the task in hand”
Many projects which are short-term or long-term in nature are to be handled, however the process that governs tend to be the same unfortunately! The output? Well you either tend to bend the process according to the long-term projects (usually, isn’t it?), which leads unnecessary overhead for the short-termed ones.
Think about managing a 3 week project with full scale project standard definitions, just like that! – Cause? –> It is the company policy to fit it to a framework.
After all it turns out “Indian Mujahudeen” is none other than “SIMI” and Police cornered 10 activists who were believed to be involved in the Blast.
The plot
- A training camp was held at Ernakulam from December 8-10, 2007 and again in first week of January 2008.
- According to sources 20 students from Hubli, Belgaum and Bangalore attended this camp.
- They were trained under SIMI Chief Safdar Nagori.
- Here they were taught how to assemble explosives with easily available materials by bomb expert Altaf Subhan.
- Intelligence agencies believe at least some of those trained here were involved in the Jaipur blasts
Above is some of the details which is seriously threatening. “Ernakulam” is in Kerala (from where I’m !). I still remember my school days & college days where SIMI used to be just another student’s organization, just like 100 others that were prevailing at those times. Now, 2 out of those guys already do have connections with Lashkar-e-Toiba!
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The latest report on performance from Miercom on Enterprise segment Firewalls goes as this; for real world HTTP (web 2.0) simulated traffic;
While this is a performance evaluation of the box by itself, some time back NetworkWorld tested SSG 500 series firewalls from Juniper and it topped the converged security solutions. Which means UTM (Unified Threat Management) next generation firewalls.
Also note that the firewall involved in Miercom’s testing is ‘NS-5200’, which is based on Netscreen architecture, the latest firewalls are much more efficient (hardware wise) and runs on Juniper architecture! I guess, when a test is performed and some one picks ASA-5580 which is pretty latest, the Juniper gear also should’ve been the latest (from SSG/ISG series)
So what does it mean for a customer looking at the market?
Real-World HTTP throughput tops in Cisco’s ASA 5580, instead if you’re looking for a box which can do Integrated stuff (IPS, AV, AntiSpam, Network Access Control) then the answer seems to be Juniper Firewalls. It is a tough choice again based on your switch ports you want to protect vs additional security that you want in one box.
Personally, I’m a fan of both of the boxes and both has its flexibility. After being configuring for almost 6-7 years the Cisco Gear, now I’ve been working on Juniper gear for last 2 years. But this 2 years made me like the Juniper security solutions as well. The reason, policy driven traffic management and support for WAN drops directly onto the firewall (remember, I worked mostly on PIX firewalls which only has 1 outside interface with Ethernet support).
Links to read :
Miercom Full Report :
http://6200networks.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/miercom_cisco_asa_5580.pdf
NetworkWorld Full Report : http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2006/020606-juniper-ssg-test.html
Eight years back when I headed to US with loads of network certificates which was a requirement for NEC’s gold partnership for Cisco Global Support, all I knew was Switching and Routing. Then the security part of networks caught me on and I decided to specialize in security.
Then its been 6 years now, I’ve only been working on security and I started off by security on one of those Big PIX boxes. A wonderful box with lots and lots to learn. I hold a Wizard status for supporting PIX Firewalls @ Experts-Exchange even now. So no more of PIX, all converted to ASA’s now.
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