Comparing Data Loss Prevention Products

At Nektra we develop custom DLP solutions that can be run as individual components or integrated into third party products. In our comments below we focus on critical capabilities: mobile, BYOD, cloud, operating system coverage, and compliance regulation. We built a feature comparison matrix for data loss prevention products to gain a better understanding of […]

Automating Google’s Doodles: 4.9 Second Record on Hurdles

And now for something completely different. The AutoIt script below will make you run Google’s hurdles doodle faster than Usain Bolt: 4.9 seconds is our automation record. Can you improve it? Surely there is room for more records before the London 2012 Olympics end. We deal with AutoIt on a daily basis since we use […]

Cloud Development: the dictatorship of the mainstream services’ APIs

You can reverse engineer binary applications but you cannot reverse engineer the cloud. When Google deprecates a web service, Facebook eliminates an API, or Twitter imposes tougher API restrictions, all dependant services fall like dominoes. The weakest link in the chain is the cloud services that you can’t run or port anywhere: we no longer […]

Data portability is good, but Late 2.0

Back in 2001 we wrote an arcane simple perl script just for fun. The script gave you the freedom to export IMDB movies from your ranking to your web page. Now in 2008 and with business goals in mind, we need to export/interact with information from sites like LinkedIn and add it to our handcrafted […]