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	Visa to make it easier for merchants to adopt chip-based card payments Visa today announced plans that will let qualifying merchants in the U.S. eliminate the need to annually validate their compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now In this Issue When a Cloud Service Vanishes: How to Protect Your Data Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT Black Hat: Apple does well but Microsoft does better with enterprise security Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil German court's ruling may pose long-term concerns over Android Cyber-espionage attacks threaten corporate data in new unrelenting ways Defcon: The security penetration testing quagmire Augmented Reality Research: 'Offline to Online Recognition' NuCaptcha Improves Integration of CAPTCHA System Improve Your Security Leadership with One Lesson From Improv WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now When a Cloud Service Vanishes: How to Protect Your Data More and more, we rely on Web services as a matter of course. The key word is rely: We assume that the data we upload to, say, a photo-hosting account or blog service today will still be there tomorrow. In large part, that's because we assume the services themselves will still be there tomorrow. Read More Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private and public company IT groups as well. These include everything from dedicated funding for green products, to improved employee training and reducing use of paper. Read More Black Hat: Apple does well but Microsoft does better with enterprise security While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, researchers at Black Hat say. While not recommended for corporate use unless it's in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Three steps to agile change Comprehensive IT change configuration and release management (CCRM) continues to confound and frustrate both IT and the business units for which it provides services. But by first instituting the appropriate foundational processes and supporting tools, many enterprises are experiencing renewed CCRM success. Read Now Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil The tech industry's answer to this week's stock market roller coaster was delivered on Tuesday by Apple Inc, which briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S. Read More German court's ruling may pose long-term concerns over Android A German court's decision to bar distribution of Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in most of Europe shocked many. It also raises some long-term licensing worries for Android globally. Read More Cyber-espionage attacks threaten corporate data in new unrelenting ways Stealthy, sometime long-term cyber-espionage attacks to steal sensitive proprietary information -- what some now call "advanced persistent threats" (APT) -- have become a top worry for businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Case study: Getting started with desktop virtualization The promise of virtualized desktops is widely recognized and desktop virtualization is topping most IT departments' priority lists. But while the "why" of desktop virtualization is clear, it's the "how" that is most challenging. Follow one customer's journey to a more agile and secure business environment. Learn more.>> Defcon: The security penetration testing quagmire The relationship between CISOs and security penetration testers is anything but clear cut and raises ethical issues for both parties, a Defcon crowd heard from a former CISO. Read More Augmented Reality Research: 'Offline to Online Recognition' At the Black Hat security conference, Carnegie Mellon University researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman presented "Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality" [PDF]. During their research, they took photos of students with a web cam and then used facial recognition software to compare the photos with Facebook to get students' names. Read More NuCaptcha Improves Integration of CAPTCHA System A company that makes a security product designed to thwart problems such as comment spam has added new security and customization features for website owners. Read More Improve Your Security Leadership with One Lesson From Improv "Your job is to make your partner look like a rock star." Read More
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