| Social networking: too much of a good thing
The potential of social networking web sites is truly awesome. Venues such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter (and dozens more), allow us to connect with, and form, social units for all manner of activities. Keeping in touch with friends and colleagues has never been easier, and people are taking advantage of these new tools to organize everything from hikes and art discussions to wholesale political... Network neutrality: Doing the right things
Gibbs argues that the Internet is bigger than business and therefore needs to be seen as a core issue to our culture which means that network neutrality is needed if we are to collectively prosper. National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Must Become More than a PR Event
Yesterday, I attended an industry event in Washington to kickoff October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The event was sponsored by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and featured prominent speakers including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, and the White House National Security Staff's Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity,... Microsoft: You Won't Sell More Windows Licenses By Not Making Microsoft Security Essentials Free To Everyone
I have a lot of good things to say about my experiences using Microsoft Security Essentials. You know Microsoft's doing something right when Symantec and McAfee start slinging FUD, whining about MSE being warmed over OneCare (and, I liked OneCare btw). But Microsoft most definitely stumbled in one very important aspect of Microsoft Security Essentials: it suffers from the "it's free but..." syndrome.... Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA?
Cisco IP SLA has been embedded in most Cisco switches and routers for the past decade. Many network admins and managers are aware of it, but may find it difficult or impossible to use. The below Q & A with Josh Stephens - VP and Head Geek of network management software vendor - SolarWinds, talks about Cisco's IP SLA and new software that according to Solarwinds makes IP SLA easy to use: 1.... CCNA Security Part 1: What's on the Test?
I had this grand vision of a nice morning at the book store. Three books stacked on the table next to the easy chair, cup of coffee in hand. The books: The CCNA Security ECG (Exam Cert Guide), The Cisco Press CCNA Voice ECG, and the CCNA Wireless ECG. The goal: figure out what was on each exam, and then blog about it over the coming weeks. Cisco pulls rug out from under RADVISION with Tandberg buy
Partners big and small need to be wary of Cisco, it seems. First, it bit the hand of resellers HP and IBM by developing its own blade servers for the data center. These companies accounted for roughly $2 billion in Cisco sales annually. iSCSI is a growth strategy
Use of iSCSI is associated with aggressive IT strategies -- and also with smaller companies, which deploy it to far larger percentages of their server plant than larger companies. This makes sense, as iSCSI is typically a lower-overhead investment, and because larger companies with money sunk into Fibre Channel networks (and FC staff expertise) want to get maximum return on that investment. In the cloud, watch out for deceptive service-level agreements
There are many things to consider before moving a business application to the cloud, and the service-level agreement offered by the vendor is among the most important. A vendor might promise five nines of availability – but that's no consolation if there are no meaningful service credits or an easy way to collect them. Princeton's Wayback Machine helps break Vanish security system for self-destructing data
Researchers this week published a paper describing how they broke Vanish, a secure communications system prototype out of the University of Washington that generated lots of buzz when introduced over the summer for its ability to make data self-destruct. FBI warns of social networking fraud, malware escalation
Fraudsters are targeting social networking sites with increased frequency and users need to take precautions, the FBI warned. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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