NSA security expert worries about mobility, cloud

	Patch management still big stumbling block in risk management, survey shows | Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer
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	NSA security expert worries about mobility, cloud Approaching its 60th birthday, the National Security Agency (NSA) has a staff some 35,000 strong worldwide, and an impressive building complex in Fort Meade, Md., where the walls are lined with copper mesh to prevent electronic eavesdropping. True to its origins dating back to breaking enemy code during World War II, the agency has two primary missions: signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA). Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Network/Cloud Security & Business Continuity eGuide Network security today means much more than simply building a perimeter around the enterprise network to defend from threats. With cloud-computing models becoming more popular, enterprises are extending corporate data and applications outside the four walls of the data center. Learn More! In this Issue Patch management still big stumbling block in risk management, survey shows Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer Did Cisco Make the Right Call With Cius? Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets WAN Virtualization's benefits "beyond the WAN" for security, cloud computing Cisco's not on board, but is Shortest Path Bridging winning? Now Pay Attention, 007: Flame Malware Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Reality RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Patch management still big stumbling block in risk management, survey shows Everyone talks about "risk and compliance" in security, but what do companies have to do to make it through audits and meet regulations related to information security? And what are the costs? Read More Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! Did Cisco Make the Right Call With Cius? At the end of last week, Cisco's OJ Winge published a blog announcing that the company would cease investments in its Cius tablet. Does this mean it's end-of-lifing it or killing it as I've read in many of the press articles? No, it does not. Read More Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Your Network is Heading for Traffic Chaos The increased use of virtual machine (VM) mobility and new application deployments is significantly increasing traffic levels between servers in the data center. This Gartner report provides recommendations for overcoming these challenges prevalent in most traditional data center networks. Learn more. Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets Despite Cisco's decision to end development on its Cius collaboration tablet, Avaya says it is still committed to its Flare Experience unified communications endpoint software... and to "support" the Avaya collaboration tablet on which it runs. Read More WAN Virtualization's benefits "beyond the WAN" for security, cloud computing Last time, we covered the network benefits of WAN Virtualization. Here, we look at how WAN Virtualization delivers benefits "beyond the WAN" to the security and computing sides of the enterprise IT shop. Read More Cisco's not on board, but is Shortest Path Bridging winning? Is Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) winning the data center fabric standards battle? One could have walked away from Interop 2012 with that impression, given the level of interest in it during a conference session and the production implementations that were discussed at the show. Read More Now Pay Attention, 007: Flame Malware Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Reality In Ian Fleming's universe of James Bond, the character Q – standing for "Quartermaster" and for so many years played in the film adaptations by Desmond Llewellyn – provides Agent 007 with all of the gadgets and just-out-of-reach-from-the-real-world technological tools he needs to achieve the goals of Her Majesty's Secret Service. One of the most amazing things about Q's technological... Read More
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