Last updated May 26th 2011. Thu Jan 27, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. MORE

I’m excited to announce that my first novel, a cyber thriller entitled Zero Day , is now available at all major book retailers! Zero Day is a book in the style of Crichton and Clancy, weaving technical fact into the story. If you like the Sysinternals.( read more MORE

Given that my novel, Zero Day , will be published in a few weeks and is based on malware’s use as a weapon by terrorists, I thought it appropriate to post a case that deals with malware cleanup with the Sysinternals tools. This one starts when Microsoft.( read more MORE

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Permalink. Comments (). MORE

Sunday, December 4, 2011. ▼ 2011. (22). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Celebrating Innovation at EMC. Can innovation be fostered or facilitated? Can it be measured? MORE

Continuing the theme of focusing on malware-related cases (last week I posted The Case of the Malicious Autostart ) as a lead up to the publication on March 15 of my novel Zero Day , this post describes one submitted to me by a user that took a unique.( read more MORE

This post continues in the malware hunting theme of the last couple of posts as Zero Day availability draws near (it’s available tomorrow!). It began when a friend of mine at Microsoft told me that a neighbor of hers had a laptop that malware had rendered.( read more MORE

Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. SBS 2011 Essentials. (52). MORE

Tuesday, August 9, 2011. August 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM. ▼ 2011. (22). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. MORE

Tuesday, December 27, 2011. December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. December 30, 2010 - GovCloud Predicitons for 2011. 2011 will be the breakout year for GovCloud! December 2011: And what did Santa bring this year!! Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. MORE

My last couple of posts have looked at the lighter side of blue screens by showing you how to customize their colors. Windows kernel mode code reliability has gotten better and better every release such that many never experience the infamous BSOD. read more MORE

Monday, October 17, 2011. NJVC® General Manager, Cloud Services, Kevin Jackson to Moderate “Cloud Computing and the Intelligence Mission” Panel at GEOINT 2011 Symposium. 13, 2011 — NJVC ® , one of the largest information technology (IT) solutions providers supporting the U.S. 19, 2011. Visit the NJVC booth (#601) in the GEOINT 2011 Exhibit Hall, Oct. 16 – 19, 2011. ###. Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. MORE

Saturday, October 29, 2011. 28, 2011 — NJVC ® , one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. 3, 2011 Time: 11:40 a.m. 1 comment: Prasetyo November 4, 2011 at 10:23 AM Nice articles. Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. MORE

Sunday, October 2, 2011. 10 comments: Shivan October 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM Hi Kevin - thanks for the article, and more importantly, pointing me to your white paper. Jackson October 10, 2011 at 6:12 AM Most federal agencies are moving to cloud based on the "Cloud First" policy and the promise of reduced IT infrastructure cost. Reply Delete SheanPerry October 10, 2011 at 9:27 PM now I know its importance. Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). MORE

Friday, August 26, 2011. 2 comments: JP Morgenthal September 1, 2011 at 2:25 PM Seems redundant with the Cloud Security Alliance efforts. Jackson September 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM I see it as complimentary. Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Cloud Musings on Forbes. MORE

” For CIOs who are looking to create new value for their organization in 2011, here are five areas for experimentation that have the potential to yield incremental innovations that can increase profitability. 2011 CIO Agenda – A. MORE

My last blog post described how to use local kernel debugging to change the colors of the Windows crash screen, also known as the “blue screen of death”. No doubt many of you thought that showing off a green screen of death or red screen of death to your.( read more MORE

Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with.( read more MORE

All organizations seek knowledge. Knowledge is the information gathered and stored by its people. Quality knowledge is not possible without access to all sources of knowledge held by an organization. All companies face the challenge of ‘knowing’ what information it holds and of being able to access that same information instantly. Organizationally, a company holds this knowledge information in three forms: Paper – Traditional Information. Electronic – Modern Information. MORE

This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network. Windows Intune is a cloud service that manages systems on a corporate network, keeping their software up to date.( read more MORE

Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some say long overdue, official guide to the Sysinternals tools is now available ! I’ve always had the idea of writing a book on the tools in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until.( read more MORE

Reinvent Your Training Methods by Chris Curran. Available does not equal best by Eric D. Brown. Transitioning IT from a technical focus to a business focus by IT BS Watch. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. MORE

I love the cases people send me where the Sysinternals tools have helped them successfully troubleshoot, but nothing is more satisfying than using them to solve my own cases. This case in particular was fun because, well, solving it helped me get back.( read more MORE

This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had become unusable. Whenever the friend connected it to a network, their laptop would reboot. The power.( read more MORE

Fri Sep 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Hybrid Cloud Computing. Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. MORE

Thu Jun 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Competition for the Cloud Heats Up. karindalziel. MORE

In the first post of this series , I used Autoruns , Process Explorer and VMMap to statically analyze a Stuxnet infection on Windows XP. That phase of the investigation revealed that Stuxnet infected multiple processes, launched infected processes that.( read more MORE

Monday, April 04, 2011. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Next up you’ll have to copy the Windows Home Server 2011 DVD to the root of the disk. Installing Windows Home Server 2011. Otherwise I love WHS 2011. MORE

Tue Jun 7, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The Browser as an application platform. MORE

Mon Jun 20, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command. MORE

Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Intel vPro Add-in. This was demonstrated at MMS 2011: This solution is running on top of Acers AC100 SBS Solution with the new Intel Xeon processor. SBS 2011 Essentials. (52). SBS 2011 Standard. (24). MORE

Thu Jun 16, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Pandora's IPO. a sign of the times. MORE

Though I didn’t realize what I was seeing, Stuxnet first came to my attention on July 5 last summer when I received an email from a programmer that included a driver file, Mrxnet.sys, that they had identified as a rootkit. A driver that implements rootkit.( read more MORE

Tue May 24, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle. Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the largest contributors to it. The primary building block for Symfony2 is a bundle. Through itâ??s s bundle system Symfony 2.0 MORE

In Part 1 I began my investigation of an example infection of the infamous Stuxnet worm with the Sysinternals tools. I used Process Explorer , Autoruns and VMMap for a post-infection survey of the system. Autoruns quickly revealed the heart of Stuxnet.( read more MORE

Symfony2 is slated for release in March 2011. Tue Feb 1, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. On Symfony2. Disclaimer. ve got a couple disclaimers in writing this. m one of the primary authors of the Zoop Framework for PHP. s pretty much the first web framework for PHP dating back to 2001. MORE