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	Two-thirds of firewall managers lack confidence in their security posture In its annual firewall management survey, Tufin Technologies uncovered some disheartening details. For example, 1 in 4 firewall managers have never conducted an audit, and 66% of the managers think their processes put them at risk of a security breach. The alarm is sounding for a giant wake-up call. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Take Your Business Relationships to the Next Level This IBM publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. Read Now In this Issue The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards Why Law Enforcement Can't Stop Hackers Exclusive Research Shows CIOs Embrace Consumerization of IT Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company WAN Optimization is Shifting from Strategic to Tactical WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards For the eighth time, Gibbs awards those who deserve opprobrium for epic reasons Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! Why Law Enforcement Can't Stop Hackers The threat that criminal hackers pose to corporate and government information systems has spiked in the past five years, according to the FBI, and shows no signs of abating. The worst part: Law enforcement is virtually powerless in cracking down on cybercrime. CIO.com investigates the challenges law enforcement officials face in investigating and prosecuting hackers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0—is providing a solution. Learn more. Exclusive Research Shows CIOs Embrace Consumerization of IT With BlackBerry and Apple still leading the pack, and tablets and Android rising in the ranks, CIOs surveyed by CIO magazine are widely supporting employee-owned devices Read More Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against such attacks. Read More WAN Optimization is Shifting from Strategic to Tactical I was reading the recent Network World article, which highlighted the improved performance of Cisco's latest WAAS appliances (http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2011/112111-cisco-waas-252854.html?page=2). While the results were interesting and showed that Cisco might finally be closing the gap between itself and Riverbed, it did get me thinking about the evolution of this industry and where future... Read More
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