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5 May 2009

Check Point Software Posting Record Financial Results For Q1 2009

Filed under: business,check point - 05 May 2009

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As someone who recently became …

29 April 2009

How Many Arrows are Left in Nokia’s Services Quill?

Filed under: apple,mobile phones,networking,nokia,Services - 29 Apr 2009

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One of the phrases I heard when I worked at Nokia

23 April 2009

Windows 7 Direct Access Won’t Put Conventional VPN’s Out Of Business

Filed under: check point,networking,security - 23 Apr 2009

Last week, I attended a presentation at the West Sound Technology Association about Windows 7. The presenter, Chris Avis, showed many of the new and interesting features present in Windows 7. He didn’t present slides, but simply demonstrated …

20 April 2009

One Icon To Rule Them All

Filed under: business,check point,computers,software,windows - 20 Apr 2009

One of the things I will not miss about working for Nokia is all of the crap that the IT department loads on the company laptops. Aside from all the end-user apps, there were different programs for:

Firewall (it wasn’t the …

14 April 2009

It’s Official: PhoneBoy Now Works For Check Point

Filed under: business,check point,nokia - 14 Apr 2009

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Now that we have …

8 April 2009

Job Change Dead Ahead

Filed under: check point,nokia,phoneboy - 08 Apr 2009

Om Malik posted a quote from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog that got me thinking:
You can obsess over your work, build an audience based on deep mutual respect, and eventually opportunities to earn money from it will …

4 April 2009

The Long Goodbye

Filed under: check point,nokia,security - 04 Apr 2009

Over my 10 years in Nokia’s Security Appliance Business, I have met a lot of people. Many of these people worked in the business and moved onto other areas of Nokia. Others were the direct result of my “poking around.” …

8 March 2009

You Know More Than I Do

Filed under: check point,software - 08 Mar 2009

While I know Kellman is going to write about his troubleshooting presentation at CPX (I looked through it, was pretty comprehensive), I wanted to borrow a slide from his presentation that I believe

Where Does The IPS Go?

Filed under: check point,nokia,security - 08 Mar 2009

Intrusion Prevention Systems are designed to detect possible attacks that are occurring over the network and act upon them in some way. They are not unlike firewalls, but they tend to approach the problem a bit differently. Whereas your typical …

6 March 2009

Humbled

One of the things that is making this transition to Check Point Software easier is the community of people that support, use, and sell what used to be called Firewall-1, but now goes by a few different names and offers …

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