The future of network security Enterprise connectivity is exploding, driven by globalization, convergence, virtualization and social computing. As corporate perimeters dissolve, the security focus switches towards application and data-level security solutions. The question to ask is what are the longer-term implications for network security? Will it become redundant or could it grow more powerful? Only one thing seems certain: It will be different from today. Jericho Forum: Visionaries with a visibility problem Now in its forth year, the Jericho Forum has held the course in its role as a user forum advocating security alternatives to the perimeter firewall, arguing for its vision of "de-perimeterization" in an Internet- ... Moving to a safer social place -- together Jeroen Willemsen, researcher at Capgemini, a member of the Jericho Forum, discusses the "collaboration-oriented architecture." Managing trust in our digital world In this month's piece, John Arnold, chief security architect at Capgemini UK, discusses the Jericho Forum's concepts of online trust and collaboration-oriented architecture. The Forum is an organization dedicated to ... Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and its partnership with systems-management vendor BigFix. Cloud security guarantees? Cloud computing providers no doubt put forth a best effort to secure their infrastructure in order to protect their customers' data, but what kind of guarantees are there? Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing One of the hot buttons, or buzz phrases, these days is "cloud computing." Boiled down, it's just like client-server computing except: a) you don't own the server; b) you don't know where the server really is; and c) you ... April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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