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DMARC: End of Spam and Phishing for Good? Maybe, But Proof-of-Concept Still Needed

It was recently announced back in March of 2011 that the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) organization, consisting of AOL, Facebook, Cloudmark, Linkedin, Band of America, PayPal and other leading organizations, proposed a new operational specification for the current email authentication infrastructure. In short,...

Operation Megaupload: Are Companies and Organizations Negligent with Today's Cyber Threats?

Recently, an online retail store called Zappos experienced an enormous cyber attack on January 16, 2012. A data breach occurred resulting in loss (or compromise) of twenty-four million customer names, e-mails, physical addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers. Although the incident only caused minimum monetary damage...

"Sprint Inside" - The Case for Integrated Network Access

A very successful branding campaign was launched years ago by Intel in conjunction with PC manufacturers known as "Intel Inside". There were numerous video and print ads as well as little stickers on the PCs indicating that Intel was actually inside. Intel and other chip manufacturers make bits of silicon that are used in every electronic device ma...

Can We Secure the Network?

While attending the Homeland Security for Networked Industries (HSNI) conference, I learned from the two largest communication service providers (CSPs) in the US – indeed, two of the largest in the world – that they spend a great deal of time and money to secure the networks that we use every day.  Whether it’s the notion of “clean pipes” offered b...

Telecom Fraud Market Expands via the Cloud

When the market for a given capability approaches saturation, it is incumbent on the market's suppliers to find new ways to grow their business.  Two classic methods include product enhancements/extensions and competitor acquisition.  The former seeks to incrementally expand the current market size while the latter assumes market segment size is re...

National Broadband Plan - Blurry Vision

I was invited to participate in call to discuss the recently released US National Broadband Plan.  The roundtable was conducted by the 4G Wireless Evolution group and Carl Ford, Partner, Crossfire Media.  Leading the discussion were Glenn Richards, Pillsbury Law and Executive Director of the VON Coalition and Todd Daubert from Kelley Drye.  In prep...

IBMPulse 2010

Pulse Postscript IBM’s Pulse 2010 Service Management Event wrapped up in Las Vegas this week.  The event brought together IBM executives, customers, partners, analysts, and press from multiple industry verticals worldwide.  Integrated Service Management (ISM) is a theme that IBM is stressing across its Applications, Infrastructure, Data Center, Se...

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