{"id":45671,"date":"2009-11-20T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/iphone\/cisco_sio_to_go_halfbaked_iphone_security_tool_143782.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-20T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:30:00","slug":"cisco-sio-to-go-half-baked-iphone-security-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45671","title":{"rendered":"Cisco SIO To Go: Half-baked iPhone Security Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cisco_sio.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/original\/cisco_sio.png\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of years fussing with servers and networks. So, this item in CNET&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27080_3-10400155-245.html\">Cisco launches iPhone security app<\/A><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;with Cisco, security, and iPhone in a single subject line is interesting (ironically, Cisco sued Apple over the iPhone name before the Apple iPhone&#8217;s launch). SIO is an acronym for Security Intelligence Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco&#8217;s SIO site describes it as: <em>Early-warning intelligence, threat and vulnerability analysis, and proven Cisco mitigation solutions to help protect networks<\/em>. But, from what I see this free iPhone app&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cisco-sio-to-go\/id338613740?mt=8\">Cisco SIO To Go<\/A> (iTunes App Store)<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t tell me anything I couldn&#8217;t find using nslookup. It didn&#8217;t see to tell me much else of use from a cyber security aspect.<\/p>\n<p>The app doesn&#8217;t even record the domain names and IP addresses I typed into its search box. So, a recheck requirings retyping the name or IP address all over again (and again and again for repeat checks) on the iPhone&#8217;s virtual keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>This app is a huge disappointment. I don&#8217;t understand how an industry giant like Cisco allowed it to be released.<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of years fussing with servers and networks. So, this item in CNET&#8230; Cisco launches iPhone security app &#8230;with Cisco, security, and iPhone in a single subject line is interesting (ironically, Cisco sued Apple over the iPhone name before the Apple iPhone&#8217;s launch). SIO is an acronym for Security Intelligence Operations. Cisco&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}