I’ve rolled a few Mac OS X Servers into production either sitting on top of PGP or Checkpoint. Other than the obvious issues of killing the ability to remotely reboot the thing it’s actually going really well so far. If anyone else has any observations or has been doing this as well let me know as I’d be interested in comparing performance benchmarks and notes about other potential technical ramifications. So far I’m seeing almost the same performance (about 5% degradation, which is easily made up by running faster drives), there are limited troubleshooting options and the issue with it booting to a password request rather than to the OS…
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Lo/Jack
It’s Friday and I’m feeling fairly non-technical after a call earlier today with actual end users (I’d forgotten we had those). So I’m going to talk about Lo/Jack. Tangent time: One of the great parts about being involved with MacWorld is the schwag. The speaker bags are full of stuff that, to be quite honest, I would almost never think to buy myself. Not that the vendors who throw crap in there don’t get me hooked on their phonics. But one of the few things that have caused me to think about security strategies from that bag is LoJack for Laptops. The thing is, I don’t really need it for…
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Partner Programs
So I’ve been working on getting us into a bunch of new partner programs recently. Some companies get it, others not so much. Companies I rather like working with: Cisco, IBM, SonicWALL, CheckPoint, PGP