I just posted a new technote over at http://www.fusion-reactor.com/support/kb/FRS-246.cfm Hopefully you’ll all find this a good starting point on how to keep your server monitoring solution secure.

Hopefully we’re all back from a quiet festive break where your phones didn’t ring and you weren’t bothered by server outages at 2am on Christmas morning. If that wasn’t you and your pager/cell was lit up brighter than the Christmas tree then perhaps you should already be speaking to us! We offer a professional consulting [...]

A big hello from CFUnited! Myself (David Stockton) and my colleagues (Darren Pywell & David Tattersall) are all at CFUnited this week. We have a FREE copy of FusionAnalytics to give away so don’t be shy – come and speak to us for a chance to win!! Plus, ask nicely and we’ve got FREE goodies [...]

ColdFusion 9.0.1 has been released for about a week now. I’m sure everyone has done due diligence in their test environments, run a full test-suite and deployed to production right? http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html#cf9 Well it’s not always that simple is it? So if you want some professional help from the experts then call the experts – we’re [...]

The PCI-DSS standards are designed to help protect card-holder data. The specific section we’re interested in is section 4.1 of the v1.2 revision of the standards which are available for download here: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss_download_agreement.html The standards layout that you should use strong cryptography and security protocols when transmitting card data over open, public networks (ie the [...]

A common consulting engagement for us is configuring a new system for optimal use. It’s not just the application server that’ll need configuring, don’t forget the application server relies on a lot of underlying infrastructure including the network and OS. Often this stage gets over-looked or you’ll (often incorrectly) assume your hosting provider will have [...]