Some examples of Cyber Security Firms and what they do

This article is a part of my series 'Security is our duty and we shall deliver it'

Following are some examples of Cyber Security Firms and what they do:

IBM Security: Services include- security intelligence and analytics; identity and access management; application security; advanced fraud protection; data security and privacy; and infrastructure protection.

Symantec Software: World's largest security product vendor, largest antivirus (Norton) and a variety of backup and asset management systems manufacturer

Cisco - Products range from advanced malware protection; next generation firewalls; security management; cloud security; next generation prevention systems; VPN security clients; email security; policy and access; web security; network visibility and enforcement; and router security, to name a few.

BAE Systems - It operates through five segments: the electronic systems; the cyber and intelligence systems; intelligence and security systems; applied intelligence; and the platforms and services.

McAfee - One of the biggest antivirus and anti-malware provider in the world.

Palo Alto Networks - It works on Next-Generation Firewall, Advanced Endpoint Protection and Threat Intelligence Cloud. The company’s Next Generation Security Platform was built for breach prevention with threat information shared across a range of security functions that can operate over mobile networks.

Apart from these, there are hundreds of companies around the globe that manufacture security products or provide their services. We have relations with some of the companies fast emerging in these arena and some having good clientele and reputation in terms of Software security implementations. We are close to building one own Software Security product.



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Method hiding Vs overriding in C# : New feature that can be cause of big troubles later

In here, I tried to show a new feature in C# or Visual studio languages. This is not in Java, and I have proactively tested that ;)

Example: Class A has a Print method; class B inherits from class A and implements the Print method as well. Now Print method will be overridden. Simple!

But now, test carefully that what happens if you change the Print method signature in class B. If you add the new keyword there, a behavior changes. In this case the method does not overrides. In fact it will hide the method. For references, i have the Github repository up and running: https://github.com/Anwar-Faiz/Method-Hiding-Demo

Most Important: In normal object calls, this one will not be caught. The behavior difference is seen when you make an object with parent class variable.


Let us start with defining some classes, and see a working example:

class A
    {
        public string Print()
        {
            return "A";
        }
    }

    class B : A
    {
        public string Print()
        {
            return "B";
        }
    }

    class A2
    {
        public string Print()
        {
            return "A2";
        }
    }

    class B2 : A2
    {
        public new string Print()
        {
            return "B2";
        }
    }

Now let us write a program to check the behavior in both ways. See attached screenshot:

The result of the run is as follows:


Demo of overriding...
 a.Getname : A
 b.Getname : B
 a2.Getname : A2
 b2.Getname : B2

Demo of method hiding...
 x.Getname : A
 y.Getname : A2



Now this clearly shows that in the second case, the method of child class becomes hidden!


Issues seen with this new feature in Visual Studio C#:
What I foresee here are a couple of problems and i am describing the same:
1. Programmers of other languages reading this part of code, will have a tough time understanding what is happening.
2. There is a huge difference between the way overriding works and this method hiding functionality behaves, this new feature may prove to be step going back to Non-OOP days!
3. More importantly, the function written in the child class, gets of no use now. It becomes hidden, in a way.
4. I further see that it is default behavior in C#. This means that you do not even need to write the new keyword. Also, if the method on the base class is marked as virtual, and you forget to mark the method on the inheriting class with override, you might land in method hiding.
5. If a bug is encountered, it will be hard to find that the trouble is cause of a new keyword.


Proposed solution to team Microsoft working on this:
As we know, since already introduced, it will be tough to remove it. Particularly, because many have already started using in their projects. I know the team Microsoft spends a lot of effort on giving backwards compatibilty, and they are really good at that!.So, the best option is to introduce the Warning on Visual Studio Editor. You can also raise a compile time warning.

PS: You can download working repository of code sample at:
https://github.com/Anwar-Faiz/Method-Hiding-Demo


Have a happy coding and testing guys!
@Anwar Faiz

Refresh All the open tabs in Chrome browser instead of F5 each window

Ever encountered the issue of lost connectivity and on regaining connection the need of refreshing all the open tabs in chrome browser. Yeah! sounds similar. Isn't it?

Basically you will need to refresh all the tabs in following circumstances:
1. You have opened tabs and network loses and comes again after sometime.
2. You have hibernated machine and on restart want to refresh each tab
3. you open some websites or a list of saved bookmarks, but gone for a cuppa coffee and return again.

In all the above scenarios you need to go to each and individual tab and hit F5 or Refresh. Actually this was what i have been doing for quite some time.
And, trust me I was really very upset about that. I knew there would be some solution, but installing just another plugin for this was a not-my-type solution.

And, finally my Columbus heart discovered AmericA! Yo:)

Refreshing All the Tabs in Chrome is actually very easy. Thanks Google Dev Team for that. But at the same time, I would be angry with them ( anger of a beloved!) that why have they hidden this for so long.


To do this you need to treat the tabs as if they are some files or folders in System explorer. Just click on the first tab. Hold down the shift key. And, finally click on the last tab. This would light up all the tabs, if you see minutely. Actually, its an indication that all tabs are activated or selected. Now just right any tab and click on reload or do an F5. This would refresh all pages.

Photos of Anwar Faiz with Ankit Fadia in Adobe

This post is in continuation with my old post Meeting with Ankit Fadia. Similar article is also published at My meetinng detail with Mr. Fadia on MeOnShow Forum++