Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls

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	Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls Today's next-generation firewalls are "application aware" but they aren't aware of the connectivity needs among applications. It's common for a change in a firewall rule for one application to break the business process of another application because no one understood that the rule impacted more than one application. Tufin Software Technologies has a new tool that automates that process to maintain business continuity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Endace Ltd. Pssst! Your NOC Is Flying Blind How long did it take you to get a permanent fix for your last network problem? If your answer is "Too long!" or "We never did get one!" your organization is leaking real money in network and business downtime. But you can stem the flow. View Now In this Issue 12 Common Project Management Mistakes--and How to Avoid Them How to find happiness in a world of password madness Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion Banks can only hope for the best with DDoS attacks 7 common risk management mistakes Inside Microsoft botnet takedowns How to encrypt your cloud storage for free WHITE PAPER: McAfee 6 Steps to Defend Business-Critical Social Media 80 percent of organizations with over 1,000 employees allow access to social media sites. Yet the stakes of reputation loss and data loss are very high-averaging USD $2M per incident. Dive into 6 Best Practice considerations for safe & productive social media use. Get this solution guide now. Learn more. 12 Common Project Management Mistakes--and How to Avoid Them So many projects, so much mismanagement. That's the refrain of many IT executives. Indeed, even with project management software, IT projects often wind up taking longer (much longer) than planned and costing more than budgeted. Read More How to find happiness in a world of password madness In early August, Wired reporter Mat Honan had his most precious passwords hacked via a complex series of social engineering exploits. The breach made headlines because it exposed security flaws in Apple and Amazon customer service policies; but let's not forget that the Honan saga capped a long summer full of server invasions that exposed millions of user passwords en masse. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Real-Time Insight for Big Data Machine data holds critical operational insights into user behavior, security risks, capacity consumption and more. Learn how to leverage this unstructured data and correlate meaningful events all in real time. Learn More Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting more funding, according to industry watcher Ovum. Read More Banks can only hope for the best with DDoS attacks As with Tuesday's attack on Wells Fargo, distributed denial of service attacks are said to be still crude but effective Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware Cloud Control: Meet the Challenges Head-On Looking for the "On" switch for your cloud computing deployment? Right. While Cloud Computing is the gateway to business flexibility and agility, there's no "On" switch. There's no "right" way. The benefits of cloud hold tremendous promise, and challenges abound. Learn More 7 common risk management mistakes Executives know they face risks, but they often don't know which risks are real, or what that exposure means to their business. Read More Inside Microsoft botnet takedowns When Microsoft took extraordinary steps earlier this month to disrupt the Nitol botnet it was the fifth time its Digital Crimes Unit had taken action against such threats, each time expanding its technical and legal toolkit for making it harder and more expensive to run cybercrime enterprises. Read More How to encrypt your cloud storage for free If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. That may sound like a trite cliche, but the maxim rings true when it comes to securing files that you've stored online: A handful of recent incidents--including breaches of Dropbox and iCloud--underscores the fact that even with built-in encryption and SSL transfers, cloud storage providers can't perfectly ensure the sanctity of your data. Read More
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