Cornerstone Issue 20: March 22, 2000
Welcome to issue 20 of Cornerstone, an electronic newsletter
issued periodically by Core Competence.
Cornerstone reports on a wide range of networking topics and
activities involving Core Competence. A brief abstract explains
what you will find if you choose to visit each URL.
http://tisc.corecom.com
We invite you to the Internet Security Conference, hosted by
Core Competence and InfoWorld at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Jose, CA, April 24-28. This year's conference
program includes one-day workshops, special one-day events on VPNs
and Healthcare & Security, a 2-day Security Symposium, and 1/2 day
seminars. The faculty consists of leading security industry experts
and innovators, including Stephen Kent, Radia Perlman, Bruce
Schneier, Bill Hancock, Marcus Ranum, Char Sample, Ian Poynter,
Phil Cox, Taher Elgamal, and Chris Klaus.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pi/xml/00/03/06/000306piegap.xml
Security administrators joke that the best way to secure a
server is to remove it from a network, and Whale Communications'
e-Gap does just that. Dave reviews this product that combines
physical separation with file transfer and transaction software
that insulates servers from TCP/IP-and OS-based attacks.
http://www.isp-planet.com/technology/web-based_apps.html
Should providers market Web-based intranet services as
'virtual private networks'? How well does this trendy
technology label fit these emerging service offerings?
Lisa Phifer weighs pros and cons in this month's column.
http://www.isp-planet.com/technology/iss_epatrol-a.html
Through its SAFEsuite and ePatrol product lines, ISS wants
to make it easy for ISPs to get into the security business.
In this ISP-Planet article, Lisa Phifer interviews Allen
Vance, Director of Offer Management for ISS Managed Security
Services.
http://www.clec-planet.com/tech/0003phifer.htm
The law says that incumbents must provide CLEC access to
their backoffice operations support systems (OSS) for
key functions like provisioning. In Lisa's first
monthly column for CLEC-Planet, she describes supporting
platforms and pitfalls for interconnect gateways.
http://www.clec-planet.com/tech/000228tech.htm
Both ISPs and CLECs should take measures to protect against
DDOS attacks. Dave tells CLECs how to take proactive security
measures in this CLEC-Planet column.
http://www.clec-planet.com/tech/000210tech_dsl.htm
DSL is commonly offered by CLECs. But are you providing true
broadband service in the most efficient, cost-effective
way possible? David Piscitello describes some of the barriers
CLECs face when offering DSL and how to overcome them.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/qmail-a.html
This modular suite of e-mail programs offers scalability,
security, and simplicity of administration. Better yet,
it's more efficient than Sendmail. And free. Lisa
interviews George Carey at NetReach, who's been hosting
the corecom.com domain on QMail for the past six months.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/cache_conclusion1.html
We finish up our cache review series with a head-to-head
comparison of the six reviewed web caches, lessons learned,
and our subjective assessment of outstanding products.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/squid_intro.html
This open source solution is a great low-cost way to get into
caching. It's far from cost-free, though, since a stable Squid
installation calls for some hefty hardware. Lisa reviews Squid
in this final installment of our ISP-Planet caching series,
also published by Linux-Planet.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/ncache_intro.html
The NetCache C720s provides a full-featured, versatile platform
for ISPs who want to cache streaming multimedia and/or news, as
well as Web traffic. Lisa reviews this Network Appliance
product in the fifth installment in our ISP-Planet cache series.
http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/cflow_intro.html
The first unit to survive our ISP-Planet cache series tests without
a reboot, the CacheFlow 545 offers many innovative features,
including an intriguing hybrid config interface and a proactive
'adaptive refresh' algorithm.
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SPECIAL INVITATION TO OUR READERS
THE INTERNET SECURITY CONFERENCE
April 24-28, 2000
SECURITY
e-Gap Beta Effectively Shuttles Apps, Data
InfoWorld, March 3, 2000
Stretching 'VPN' to Fit Web-Based Intranets?
ISP-Planet, February 11, 2000
Best-of-Breed Platform For Managed Security Services
ISP-Planet, February 10, 2000
CLEC-PLANET
Interconnect Gateways: Competitive Enabler or Barrier?
CLEC-Planet, March 8, 2000
CLECs Should Be Proactive In Security
CLEC-Planet, February 28, 2000
What's Missing From DSL?
CLEC-Planet, February 10, 2000
MAIL
QMail - A Better Sendmail?
ISP-Planet, March 2, 2000
WEB CACHING
Cache Review Series Wrap-Up
ISP-Planet, March 6, 2000
Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3
ISP-Planet and Linux-Planet, February 28, 2000
Multiprotocol Caching: NetCache C720s
ISP-Planet, February 14, 2000
Predictive Caching: CacheFlow 545
ISP-Planet, February 3, 2000