Category Archives: Security

Project Poindexter:VPN Logs

June 16, 2010 – 6:33 am

Total Information Awareness with your Netscaler/AGEE Harvesting VPN Logs with the Netscaler: When I first heard about Total Information Awareness I was a little concerned. Like a lot of my current team, I am one of those libertarians who really isn’t keen on his personal life being correlated and analyzed and a program that is [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, Citrix SQL Queries, Digital SCIF, Layered Security, Netscaler, Netscaler Syslog, Netscaler VPX, Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, SSL VPN | Comments (2)

The Digital SCIF: Compartmentalizing Sensitive data with Access Gateway Enterprise Edition (SCIFNET)

January 3, 2010 – 6:30 pm

  A little over six months ago Citrix released the Netscaler VPX virtual appliance and I was immediately thrilled with the potential to create my own virtual lab using XenServer and internal Xen networks on the hypervisor for downstream hosts. What I noticed was that I could locate resources inside a hypervisor’s black network and [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, Digital SCIF, Netscaler, Netscaler VPX, Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, SSL VPN | Comments (1)

Xen and the art of Digital Epidemiology

November 27, 2009 – 3:32 pm

In 2003 I started steering my career toward Citrix/VMWare/Virtualization and at the time, aside from being laughed at for running this fledgling product called ESX Server 1.51, most of my environment was Windows based. There were plenty of shrink-wrapped tools to let me consolidate my events and the only Unix I had to worry about [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Application Firewall, Netscaler, Secure Ticket Authority, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Will that be Paper or Panic?

June 9, 2009 – 11:08 pm

According to the New  York Times, 8/10 doctors still use paper record keeping.  As I stated in an earlier blog, the stimulus package will spend a “ga-jillion” dollars on converting paper records to electronic medical records.   Techworld.com cited in an article in 2007 that “a key tenet of HIPAA’s data privacy and security requirements is [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in HIPPA, Identity Management | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Electronic Stimulus

June 1, 2009 – 12:29 am

According to the Baltimore Sun, President Obama has promised to spend $50 billion dollars over the next five years coax hospitals, medical centers and the like to begin the process of offering electronic data.  So nurses, occupational therapist and other allied health personnel as well as Doctors may be carrying something like a Kindle around instead [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Application Firewall, HIPPA, Netscaler, Stimulus | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)
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