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	Cellphone kill switches: Finally some good security news Read More WHITE PAPER: Spirent Hardware Test is the Key to Accurate Network Testing Surprisingly, many organizations are not adequately testing their networks. Network testing is crucial for any IT organization that wants to ensure availability, security and performance of applications and services running on their networks. Learn More In this Issue The Future of Network Security in the Data Center – Flexible, Distributed, and Virtual Bill Buckner is the butt of painfully funny 404 error page IDC's Directions 14: Some Interesting Observations on Mobility – and Beyond CISOs Must "Think Different" Two Reasons why Heartbleed doesn't really change anything Cisco Live 2014: Dipping my Toes into the Social Side of Cisco Live US takes out gang that used Zeus malware to steal millions Amazons says cloud customers can take precautions to defend against Heartbleed WHITE PAPER: Neustar Inc. Four Ways DNS Can Accelerate Business Growth This e-book describes how DNS has developed over the years to support business growth as new needs have emerged, for example, advanced traffic management and protection from cyber threats. Learn More The Future of Network Security in the Data Center – Flexible, Distributed, and Virtual Think of a modern enterprise data center. There are likely hundreds of physical servers hosting thousands of VMs. Individual systems are connected via 10gbE links that likely feed 40gb cores. Local data centers connect over DWDM, remote data centers use MPLS, and cloud data centers chat amongst each other over high-speed VPNs. Read More Bill Buckner is the butt of painfully funny 404 error page Baseball fans will require no explanation to appreciate this 404 error page delivered by the newly redesigned Boston.com. Read More WHITE PAPER: Gigamon Visibility into the Cloud and Virtualized Data Center Security analysis and monitoring tools can't see inside the cloud. How can you shed light on workloads as they go virtual, and see inside your virtual networks? Read this white paper to learn how a Visibility Fabric™ can give you the visibility you need. Learn more >> IDC's Directions 14: Some Interesting Observations on Mobility – and Beyond I recently attended IDC's annual Directions conference in Boston, and this information-packed event is always worth a visit. IDC is, of course, the original analyst firm, today with over 1,000 analysts and always a fairly quantitative approach to the IT industry. I don't think it's possible to agree with every pronouncement that any analyst firm makes (including my own, by the way), but the reasoning... Read More CISOs Must "Think Different" Remember the "Think Different" advertising campaign from Apple? It ran from 1997 to 2000 and featured bigger-than-life personalities like Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King, and Pablo Picasso. The "Think Different" ads coincided with Steve Jobs's return to Apple as well as his somewhat contrarian and analytical mindset. In a PBS interview, Jobs offered this philosophical observation about... Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Optimizing Approaches to Enterprise Backup and Recovery IT organizations are faced with ensuring that backups occur in the shortest amount of time and are not operationally disruptive as well as maintaining a timely backup window as data continues to grow. Learn More Two Reasons why Heartbleed doesn't really change anything Heartbleed, the CVE-2014-0160 OpenSSL flaw that threatens security of communications across a terrifying large swath of the Internet, could hardly be worse. And yet. I believe that it's unlikely to spur real and lasting change in either the mechanics of online security or the way individuals and companies deal with the situation. Read More Cisco Live 2014: Dipping my Toes into the Social Side of Cisco Live New to CiscoLive? At some point we all were there. The mixture of emotions, of course, is different for everyone. For me? Crazy excitement coupled with a huge dose of adrenalin and fear. Why? Not only was Networkers 2006 going to be my first time ever going, I was going to be presenting. So in 2006 I pretty much just stuck to doing the two things I love and adore the most: teach sessions... Read More US takes out gang that used Zeus malware to steal millions The US Department of Justice today charged nine members of a group that used Zeus malware to infect thousands of business computers with Zeus malware and illegally siphon-off millions of dollars into over-seas bank accounts. Read More Amazons says cloud customers can take precautions to defend against Heartbleed Amazon Web Services, one of the most popular cloud computing platforms, which hosts a large number of websites on the Internet, said this week that it has been able to mitigate the impact of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug revealed this week. But, it because of a "shared security" model that AWS operates under, some customers can take action if they want to take extra precautions to ensure the vulnerability... Read More
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