Best practices to mitigate DDoS attacks

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	Best practices to mitigate DDoS attacks DDoS attacks are on the rise and growing more complex. A majority of respondents in a recent survey from Neustar indicate a service outage would cost their companies $10,000 or more per hour in lost revenues. Follow these tips to mitigate an attack against your organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue INSIDER Bank of America CIO Says Simplification and Risk Reduction Are Keys to IT Success Chicago's CIO doesn't believe in 'good enough' How to talk security so people will listen (and comply!) Best IT resolutions for 2013 WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Controller-less Access Network Architecture Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, "controller-based" model, involving controllers and thin access points. Read Now INSIDER Bank of America CIO Says Simplification and Risk Reduction Are Keys to IT Success Catherine Bessant's journey to the CIO role at Bank of America wasn't your standard ascent through the ranks of IT. Bessant, now Global Technology and Operations Executive, leads a team of more than 100,000 employees and contractors who handle all technology and operations for the giant financial institution. But prior to tackling IT, Bessant was president of Global Corporate Banking, Global Treasury Services and the Global Product Solutions groups. She's also served as chief marketing officer for the bank. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Unified Threat Management: A Better Approach to Security In this Webcast you will learn how Unified Threat Management (UTM) combines firewall, IPS, Web filtering, antivirus and more in a single box to combat a broad range of threats efficiently and economically. Learn More. Chicago's CIO doesn't believe in 'good enough' Brett Goldstein brings a deep background and big plans for the city's IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T / AT&T Wireless Cloud Services: It's not just what but how...and who Cloud services can be an effective way to find the needles of value hidden in the Big Data "hay stack." Choosing a cloud provider capable of transport, storage and analysis in a single infrastructure can simplify this process and strengthen return on investment. Learn More! How to talk security so people will listen (and comply!) Sure you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Insider (registration required) Read More Best IT resolutions for 2013 It's that time of year when IT executives' thoughts turn to setting resolutions for the new year. We've talked to CIOs, IT analysts and other industry experts about the major trends for 2013 to come up with our own list of suggested IT resolutions. Read More
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