Blog of Wade Making Connexions

Posts from June 2006

Posted
14 June 2006 @ 8pm

Tagged
IT, Security

Australian Banks Password Policy

I’ve got a few bank accounts that I access online with a few different companies, which is not uncommon. What is uncommon in the Enterprise space, which I found out is in quite a lot of online banks is the lack of decent password policy.
All the banks obviously have a password policy. What [...]


Posted
6 June 2006 @ 9pm

Tagged
Security

The Sky Is Falling?

Over the past few months I’ve been to a fair share of vendor seminars, breakfasts and even the odd lunch. All of these vendors(at an SP/enterprise level) are all selling their own products.
The ONE thing that ALL these different vendors have in common, is a SQL Slammer image, and associated pitch.
The pitch [...]