Drupal

A client recently had a stream of attacks on several of their online applications. Thanks to excellent monitoring, solid architecture and nice, clean installations, the attacks were easily rebuffed. Cheers to all involved. Just the same, the attacks gave me some insights on what a typical attack vector looks like to an online intruder. There were certainly some patterns in the commands directed at each server or application. As I said, the client faired very well. However, the incident gave us an excellent opportunity to review our monitoring efforts and even more interesting, our security...

I wanted to blog about something exciting and relative to the current hour such as "who will win the coming presidential race to the Whitehouse", especially that the first presidential debate of 2012 is looming (personally I think Jim Lehrer is pretty lame and would have preferred to see Oprah Winfrey conducting these debates.)  But my friend ...

I can’t resist the urge to write this, but winter is officially over today and I didn’t have to use the snow blower (not even the snow shovel) a single time this winter season (no, I don’t live in Florida) and at this pace, odds are, in few years I’ll never have to wear any winter clothing; I love global warming. Back to business; so we touched base a short while back on a potential Web Content Management (WCM) tool as a potential replacement for WebCenter Interaction (WCI): ...