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SSL decryption: 1 sure way to freak out employees
There are plenty of reasons that a company might want to try and decrypt SSL sessions — to stop outbound malware botnet connections that are decrypted, or to stop a rogue insider from sending out sensitive corporate information — but be prepared to hear employees whose data traffic is decrypted complain loudly about their privacy being invaded. Read More


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A Significant Shift In Multi-Factor Authentication Strategy
Escalating IT security threats and strengthening regulatory requirements are driving multi-factor authentication adoption to unprecedented levels. Increasingly implementations are leveraging phone-based authentication instead of hardware security tokens. In fact, analysts report phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the market by 2014. Download The Authentication Revolution whitepaper to understand the key drivers for this market shift, including real world case studies from organizations that have made the move to PhoneFactor's phone-based multi-factor authentication.

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The Holy Grail of Mobility: Behavior Change
We all do it. Skip taking meds. Put off seeing our doctor. Eat what we shouldn't. People with diabetes can put their lives in danger doing these things. That's why WellDoc's app, DiabetesManager, is such a great case study for learning how to change behavior. It's so effective the FDA approved the app as a medical device. In this podcast, Anand Iyer, president of WellDoc, and Mobiquity customer, lets you in on the app's development and why it works so well. Learn how you can apply behavior change to your business.

15 Microsoft alumni: Where are they now?
Microsoft didn't become the industry giant it is today by hiring slackers, and that's proven by taking a quick look at some of its alumni and where they have wound up. Some went on to start their own companies, some went into nonprofit work, some became leaders of rival companies and one on our list -- so far at least -- seems to be just taking it easy. Read More

Office 365 email conks out twice within a week
Microsoft's Office 365 service has suffered two email outages within a week of each other that affected some customers in North and South America that stemmed from different causes but ended in the same result: failed email delivery. Read More

Final attempt to pass cybersecurity legislation appears doomed
Meet the new U.S. Senate fight over federal cybersecurity legislation -- pretty much the same as the old fight. Read More

Apology for 'piracy confession' scheme lacks a lot
Yesterday I wrote about Enfour's outrageous attempt to shame software pirates through impersonated "confession" tweets and all the blowback that resulted when paying customers - including the magician Teller of Penn & Teller fame -- found themselves caught up in the scheme. Read More


RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch

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As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days!

MIT beats the rush, names Dropbox CEO as 2013 commencement speaker
Colleges and universities typically don't announce commencement speakers until the spring, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology got a jump on things this week by announcing that Dropbox CEO and 2005 MIT grad Drew Houston would be doing the honors in 2013. Read More

Report: Cloud botnets, search poisoning and mobile attacks among 2013's biggest security issues
Researchers from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center today released their official 2013 cyberthreats forecast, detailing what they say will be the most serious computer security issues in the coming year. Read More

Cisco to build small cellular base stations, Chambers says
Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations, building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. Read More

DARPA wants army of networked amateur astronomers to watch sky for space junk
There is really so much junk floating around in space the government needs help keeping track of it all. This week the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a program to utilize amateur astronomers to help watch space for any dangerous junk that maybe be threatening satellites or other spacecraft and even the Earth. If you have a telescope, great but the program will even install equipment... Read More


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Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability
By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now

Android market share spikes to more than 72% in Q3
Smartphone and tablet buyers snapped up Android products five times more often than they chose Apple iOS devices during the third quarter, according to a new study from Gartner Research. Read More

Is Sinofsky's Departure a Reflection of Windows 8?
About a year ago at the 2011 Build conference, just weeks before Steve Jobs's passing, Steve Sinofsky owned the stage as he took the wraps off Windows 8 and highlighted Microsoft's plans to create a single interface spanning phones, tablets and PCs that ran ARM and x86 processors. More than a few Net pundits proclaimed Sinofsky the Second Coming of Jobs. So much for that prediction. Read More

U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6
The IPv6 Forum on Tuesday presented a special award to four U.S. government officials for their pioneering work in promoting IPv6, an emerging upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More

SDNs provide a solution for Extreme Networks' XOS
Extreme Networks took advantage of the media frenzy caused by the Big Switch launch to announce an upgrade to its SDN strategy yesterday. Previously, Extreme had unveiled the behemoth of a switch, the Black Diamond X8, to be the centerpiece of its SDN and network fabric strategy. Early feedback from Extreme customers has been more than positive, as the product appears to perform as advertised in the... Read More

Is IT Outsourcing a Dying Concept?
Has the concept of IT outsourcing outlived its effectiveness? KPMG's Cliff Justice says the process that the term was invented to describe has evolved considerably and finding value in IT service providers is taking on new meaning. Read More

Products of the week 11.12.12
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Intel and Sourcefire Read More

 
 
 

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