I’m sure their food is lovely, but I don’t think they’re going to deliver to me in Oxford, England, are they? Or if they did I’d have to give the delivery driver a stonking tip.
Graham Cluley
I’m the opening keynote speaker at CRN’s MSP conference in London next week, where – amongst other things – I’ll be describing to managed service providers how it’s possible to make a billion dollars through cybercrime.
I hope to see some of you there!
Not me, at least not in this instance. The self-described doofus here is a contributor to Reddit’s section devoted to networking, who says he acquired his doofus bona fides while troubleshooting his company’s VoIP system. Mr. Doofus explains:
I’ve been struggling with nasty packet drops occurring on VoIP calls at our data center for a few weeks now and for the life of me I couldn’t find the source of the issue. I thought at first that the servers I have running our custom VoIP applications were just overloaded, but the issue would show up on just a single active call. Restarting the VoIP servers didn’t help, all of the QoS markings and switch/router prioritization were spot on, the ISP was returning a clean bill of health on the circuit, etc., nothing was making sense. I made a few internal VoIP calls that stayed on the LAN which were crystal clear, and made some calls that also traverse the router to another internal subnet which were also clear, so I now knew the ISP connection was where the trouble was beginning.
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If you are a cybersecurity professional, you’ve probably read the quote, “AV is dead” hundreds or even thousands of times. The thought here is that antivirus software is no longer effective at blocking modern exploits and malware, thus its useful lifespan is effectively over.
Now when any technology is declared “dead” it is usually an industry analyst (like me) who makes this type of provocative statement. I remember the analyst declaration “mainframe is dead” from the early 1990s and the more recent refrain portending the death of the PC. In this case however, many people attribute the “AV is dead” soundbite to a former Symantec VP quote in the Wall Street Journal which seems to give it more credibility. After all, if Symantec, the market leader, thinks AV is dead than it sure as heck must be.
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