Sean Michael Kerner

One of the many ways that developers can build secure software is by following the tenets of the Building Security in Maturity (BSIMM) approach, now in its fourth generation. One of the most common types of software security attack vectors is the use-after-free condition, where an attacker makes use of legitimately allocated memory to launch […]

Earlier this year, IDC forecast that the SDN market could be worth $2.0 Billion by 2016. For 2013, IDC’s May Forecast pegged the SDN market at $168 million. Fast forward to December and IDC is now upping the forecast. IDC is now stating that the SDN market will be worth $360 million in 2013, more […]

BroadHop’s policy management solution is already in use by over 90 telecom service providers. It’s a segment of the market Cisco is active to engage with in an expansion of its service provider business and broader efforts for Software Defined Networking. “Cisco’s acquisition of BroadHop is also an evolutionary step in supporting Cisco’s Open Network […]

Ever since Oracle’s bid to acquire Sun Microsystems closed in 2010 Oracle has been building on the Sun business.  Now after two years, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is ready to declare the acquisition a success. “Our $7.5 billion purchase of Sun has already proven to be the most strategic and profitable acquisition Oracle has ever […]

From the ‘Slightly Delayed Open Source OS’ release files: PC-BSD is a desktop based derivative of FreeBSD and typically PC-BSD releases follow FreeBSD releases. That’s not quite the case with the new PC-BSD 9.1 release which is actually coming out *before* the official release of FreeBSD 9.1 FreeBSD 9.1 was originally set for official […]

The Oracle Java Development Kit 7 Update 10 (JDK 7u10) release provides new updating and control capabilities that go beyond what Java users have enjoyed in the past. Among the new security features in JDK 7u10 is the ability to restrict any Java application from running in a browser. There is also now an alerting […]

Two companies owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo are now set to come together. Network security vendor Crossbeam is being acquired by Blue Coat Systems. David Murphy, chief operating officer and president, Blue Coat told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Both Blue Coat and Crossbeam are owned […]

Tom Leighton, one of the co-founders of Content Delivery Network provider Akamai is set to become the company’s new CEO. Akamai announced in April of this year that Sagan was set to exit the CEO role in 2013. At the time the company began an executive search to find its next CEO, but as it […]

What will the IT world look like in five years? That’s the annual question that IBM has asked for the last seven years with its Five in Five report. The 2012 report is now out, and for Big Blue the future of IT is all about the five senses. That’s right, IT is set to […]

Over the course of the last two years, OpenStack has expanded beyond NASA and Rackspace and has been embraced by many large tech vendors, including IBM, HP, Dell, AT&T, Cisco and Intel among others. As OpenStack participation has grown, new capabilities have been added, including most recently the Cinder block storage project and the Quantum […]

The PacketShaper 9.2 release is the second major update for Blue Coat’s PacketShaper this year, following the 9.1 release that was announced in April that provided IPv6 visibility. “In the 9.2 release, we added increased visibility into Web applications as well their operations, including the ability to dynamically add new and update existing application definitions […]

From the ‘Nightly Open Source Innovation’ files: Firefox 20 is sure shaping up to be a really big release for Mozilla. We already knew that it would finally be the release that provides Private Browsing as it should be. Now it looks like Firefox is finally getting a really interesting Network load fix that seems […]