CyberSoft News For November 2008
CyberSoft Goes Green
CyberSoft Research
New cyber.com website
CyberSoft President Contributes to New Book
CyberSoft Goes Green
We know that our customers want us to be a green company, and we are complying. There are may benefits to "being green." The first is the knowledge that we are helping our country and environment. Using less energy means importing less energy and keeping the money at home. Helping the environment has direct benefits for everyone. Above and beyond all of these, there is an unexpected benefit. Going green is good for the bottom line. Saving energy means spending less. Spending less means holding the price down for our customers, which in turn means happy customers and more business.
Recently, we completed phase one of our initiative. We replaced all of the HVAC systems in our building and we replaced many development servers with fewer servers running virtualization. These changes resulted in a 50% reduction in energy usage. This is a significant improvement, but we hope to do more. Phase two will involve pressure testing of our entire building and additional changes in our Data Center and electronic infrastructure. Anyone interested in details is welcome to call us at (610) 825-4748.
CyberSoft Research
CyberSoft is working on a project that may provide a significant increase in speed for our scanning system, VFind™. Trading off functionality or reliability typically increases speed. CyberSoft has never believed in that theory. We have always increased speed by long-term investment in algorithms. Our target speed is 22 Gigabytes per hour of mixed files without loss of functionality. No one is able to accomplish this speed, but it is a worthwhile target.
New cyber.com website
Like new clothes for each season, CyberSoft regularly polishes our websites and spruces them up to conform with generally accepted appearance. We recently completed a new look for the www.cyber.com website that does just that. As part of this new look, we simplified the sites so that everything that you used to find on the www.cyber.com and www.cybersoft.com websites are now conveniently located in one place on the www.cybersoft.com website. Both websites are Section 508 compliant. We hope you enjoy this new website.
CyberSoft President Contributes to New Book
CyberSoft Founder and President, Peter Radatti, provided a chapter on computer security for Dr. Cliff Bragdon's new book, "Transportation Security," published by Butterworth-Heinemann (an imprint of Elsevier). Mr. Radatti's chapter is titled, "Computer and Transportation Systems Security." Topics discussed in this chapter are:
- Security Is Flawed
- Holistic Security Design
- Physical Security and Locks Have Limited Value
- The Trade-Off Between Security and Accomplishment
- The Attacker Has the Advantage
- Cameras, Computers, and Physical Security
- Computers and Physical Security
- Holistic Security Design Is Transparent and Passive
- Radatti's Rules of Computer Security
- Disaster Recovery
- Time Management Is Part of Security
The conclusion: that security is a promising career for those who like challenges. Mr. Radatti also quotes Thomas Hobbes' famous line, "War of all against all," as relevant to the subject of security.
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