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Month: September 2014

ManageEngine Network Management
Shannon Lewis

​Maximize Your Application Performance to Ensure Successful Business Outcomes – September 9, Forrester Webinar

Join  Forrester   and  ManageEngine   on a free, one-hour  webinar  that will help you discover ways to unlock the true prowess of application monitoring. Learn how to fully leverage the capabilities your APM tool to give your business that much-needed boost. John  Rakowski ,  Forrester’s  leading analyst and  advisor  working with infrastructure and operations professionals, will be the keynote presenter.  John has been helping IT leaders and their teams understand the business value of service management, develop their strategies, evaluate and select vendor tools, and implement service management processes

ManageEngine Network Management
Shannon Lewis

My iCloud Password is “iCloud”

I guess the editor at  MCP  Magazine who fired me for talking about  passphrases  and ways to secure your passwords is looking rather foolish at this point. Years and years ago, I wrote an article on securing passwords – only to be told that I was out of touch with reality when I suggested that everyone needed to use more secure passwords.  With the latest attack on the  iCloud  due to weak and pathetic passwords, you’d think that ​  the attack’s victims would have appreciated learning the password strategies I was advocating 10 years ago! Apple now is saying that it is not their fault that the nude pictures of so many celebrities were obtained from their cloud storage ​ .   Does that mean that the weak questions for  iCloud  password recovery aren’t their responsibility either?  I truly hope that this latest attack on the  iCloud  opens the eyes of everyone who uses social media, social networking, centralized cloud storage, and other online resources