Author Archives: T.Rob

Choosing a PCI DSS Auditor? Does WMQ awareness count?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by T.Rob

James DeLuccia’s post about choosing a PCI DSS QSA auditor has some good advice.  I would add to his list a criteria one of my own: the auditor should at least know how to spell WMQ.  Or JMS.  Or “message … Continue reading →

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Must-read article – Secure Software: 'See No Evil' is Not a Strategy

Posted on January 23, 2009 by T.Rob

Given that software currently enables or imperils most aspects of our buying, selling, and communicating, it is time that responsible people acknowledge that this is a massive problem, and stop looking in the opposite direction. “See No Evil” is not … Continue reading →

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developerWorks live chat on WMQ

Posted on January 15, 2009 by T.Rob

developerWorks is hosting a live text chat at Noon Eastern US time on January 22nd on the topic of WMQ Best Practices.  The panel will include some folks from the WebSphere MQ online community that you may know: Chris Frank, … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Podcast audio restored.

Posted on January 14, 2009 by T.Rob

Hmmm…maybe I need to take Andy Piper’s advice and switch my WordPress plugins.  Sure, I’ll blame it on PodPress – as if! Well, some of you may have noticed that Episode #6 of The Deep Queue was a PDF, depending … Continue reading →

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Signed C&C messages? What a novel idea!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by T.Rob

I’ve been saying for a while now that Command and Control messages to be signed.  It’s a question of authentication.  When you pass a message to perform an administrative action, what assurance do you have that the message got to … Continue reading →

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The Deep Queue – Episode #6: The Myth of the Trusted Internal Network

Posted on January 1, 2009 by T.Rob

In this episode of The Deep Queue I explain why I believe the “trusted internal network” is a myth.  Many of the problems that I see on consulting assignments would have been prevented by the same security measures I recommend … Continue reading →

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WMQ File Transfer Edition launched

Posted on December 7, 2008 by T.Rob

I’ve been haunting the Vienna MQ list server for long enough to have seen the topic of moving files over MQSeries, and later WebSphere MQ, raise it’s ugly head on many occasions.  I say “ugly” because creating a general-purpose program … Continue reading →

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Mission:Messaging: Migration, failover, and scaling in a WebSphere MQ cluster

Posted on December 2, 2008 by T.Rob

Certain aspects of service orientation are best served using an IBM® WebSphere® MQ cluster. The cluster provides the location independence, run time resolution of names, and concurrency required by SOA applications. For these reasons, adoption of SOA is driving migrations … Continue reading →

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The Deep Queue – Episode #5: WMQ Security news and Random WMQ Stuff

Posted on December 2, 2008 by T.Rob

The Deep Queue Episode #5 is now online.  In this episode we cover some WMQ security news and introduce a new segment called Random WMQ Stuff which is pretty much what it sounds like.  We also now have an iTunes … Continue reading →

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Having fun in Barcelona!

Posted on November 11, 2008 by T.Rob

Well, I made it to Barcelona on Sunday after 20 hours on various planes and in various terminals.  My luggage arrived on Tuesday having seen MUCH more of Europe than I was able to.  Unfortunately, I had the camera and … Continue reading →

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