Tim O'Neill
As the Senior Technology Consultant & Chief Editor at LoveMyTool, Tim O’Neill has over 45 years of technology experience at data/voice and video networking analysis companies, including successful senior roles in Sales, Product Design, Marketing Management, Business Development and Security.
Smurfing and Other Mysterious Words in the Cyber World
Cyber world has its own language, often filled with acronyms and mysterious sounding words that both the good guys and the bad guys creatively come up with to describe what's happening on the dark side of the web. If you think a Smurf...
Your Solution for PCI Data Compliance
Compliance is hard enough to obtain – much less maintain day in and day out. Payment Card Industry, or PCI, compliance is no laughing matter. It involves personal data, including credit, finance and demographic information.
SPAN Ports Have Always Been A Disaster To Your Network Security
Remember that time when SPAN ports ensured your network visibility and, thus, its security and the security of your data? Oh wait, that time was never. The SPAN port has never been a viable means to capture your data. But, in 2015, the...
Breaches Are a Question of "When" Not "If"
"Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which has a network of a quarter of a million sensors, said there were 25.66 billion attempts to compromise systems," according to a report by Kyodo News at...
A Visibility Plane Can Lower Cyber Insurance Costs
Today, cyber insurance is very much like liability insurance but focused on covering the liabilities of a cyber breach. Right now, these plans are based on financial and cyber threat evaluation and not on the company’s:
What is the future of SDN?
SDN is one of the latest technologies designed for Network Control. SDN can allow a Network Manager to change the way the network devices, i.e. Routers, Switches..etc , handle packets by allowing complete control of the rules set into...