Sean Michael Kerner

VMware reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Tuesday with revenue reported at $1.36 billion, for a 14 percent year-over-year gain. Net Income for the quarter was reported at $199 million or $0.46 per share. “As we talk to customers, one thing is becoming clear, they not only see the value of the software-defined […]

For the quarter, Juniper reported revenue of $1.17 billion, a 10 percent year-over-year gain. Net income came in at $110.6 million or $0.22 per share. Looking forward, Juniper provided second quarter guidance for revenue to range from $1.20 billion to $1.23 billion. Looking at Juniper’s core product categories, routing product revenue was $550 million, up […]

In the world of information security research studies, no research group is more prolific than the Ponemon Institute. It publishes more research studies than any other group in any given year. Leading the Ponemon Institute is its eponymous founder Dr. Larry Ponemon, who helps provide structure and context for the data and the research that […]

Apple is updating its iOS mobile operating system, the OS X desktop operating system and the firmware on the Airport WiFi access point for security vulnerabilities with a series of security updates released on April 22. Among the patched issues, several affect both iOS and OS X, one of which is a fix for the […]

Although Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which came out this week, includes lots of specific data points, one of the key observations is that attacks vary based on specific industry sectors. Overall, the 2014 DBIR received data from 63,437 security incidents of which 1,367 were confirmed data breaches. Verizon senior analyst and DBIR […]

Though the cloud offers a different deployment and consumption model for computing services, many of the same security risks present in non-cloud IT deployments are still in play. That’s the general conclusion of the Spring 2014 State of Cloud Security Report from cloud security-as-a-service vendor Alert Logic. “With the growing adoption of the cloud, we […]

In the open-source development model, when disputes happen and one group wants to take a project in a different direction, forks happen and that’s what is now occurring with OpenSSL. The open-source OpenBSD operating system community has now officially forked the OpenSSL code and is building its own version of an open-source cryptographic library called […]

In September of 2013, Cisco first revealed its intentions to launch a managed security services practice under Bryan Palma’s leadership. This week Cisco formally announced the launch of its Managed Threat Defense Service as part of its managed security practice. Palma is the Senior Vice President of Security Services at Cisco. He came to the networking […]

While Web servers remain a key target for the Heartbleed vulnerability, they aren’t the only Internet technology that is at risk. Virtual private network (VPN) technology today is often deployed in the form of SSL-VPN, which has now been identified as also being under attack from Heartbleed.Security research group Mandiant, which became part of FireEye […]

One of the most hyped examples of the Internet of Things is the Internet-connected refrigerator. But according to Rebecca Jacoby, Cisco CIO, the refrigerator will not likely be an Internet of Things use case that she deploys within Cisco itself. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Jacoby explained what the Internet of Things […]

To put an actual number on it, given some historical precedence, I think $500 million is a good starting point. Back in 2001, eWEEK reported that the estimated cost of W.32 Nimda worm cleanup would hit $500 million. That was 13 years ago; given inflation, the cost of Heartbleed could be much higher, though the […]

Helping lead the new Intel Security division is CTO and General Manager of Corporate Products Mike Fey. In a video interview with eWEEK, Fey explains his role within Intel Security and how McAfee technologies fit in. He also details why antivirus (AV) is still at the core of the business and continues to evolve to […]