Articles for May 2009

Striking a Balance Between Control and Protection

May 29th, 2009

Since we began shipping our firewall, we have heard from a small but vocal contingent that they should be allowed to do what they want at work. We see it in the comments on some of the articles about us and we have heard it from our customers once they have deployed our platform. The [...]

Please Ignore That Sucking Sound…

May 22nd, 2009

It is merely the bandwidth being consumed by video (and photo) application usage. A somewhat random factoid posted on TechCrunch.com stated that every minute, 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Think about that. There are 1,440 minutes in a day, which equates to 2,880 hours of video. It is a remarkable statistic, given [...]

Hulu Networks’ Battle Against External Proxies

May 12th, 2009

This TechCrunch article outlines how Hulu Networks, the rapidly growing purveyor of streaming HD content, is taking some fairly extreme steps to make sure that their content is only accessed by users in the US. Apparently anyone with an anonymous IP address is blocked. An interesting step that will, in all likelihood, fail.
Why? It’s all [...]