New Cisco virtual worlds blog; Brocade not worried about Cisco anymore

Cisco News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by SonicWALL Webcast: Assessing Risk and Net Security Join this live Webcast on September 12, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT to learn how assessing your company's risk can lead to a more proactive sustainable security strategy. Hear respected security experts discuss this new risk management approach and its benefits. Click here to get all of the details. Network World's Cisco News Alert, 08/27/07 New Cisco virtual worlds blog launched by Cisco networked virtual environments team: Authors of the new Cisco Virtual Worlds Blog happen to be members of the Cisco networked virtual environments team within the Cisco technology center. This group within Cisco is chartered to look at new and emerging technologies will regularly wander far from the beaten path. Network World Storage Buyers Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. From a tape library to an on-line backup service to a complete, drop-it-in-place SAN Solution, check out this Buyers guide. With over 200 products divided into specific categories, you can conduct side-by-side comparisons and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Storage Buyers Guide now. Today at Cisco Subnet: Cisco's new CFO has a tough act to follow. IP routing expert Jeff Doyle explains how to protect your network edge with reverse path forwarding. Channelguy says despite the promises of Chambers and Ballmer to play nice it's likely that their sales reps will still sling FUD. Blogger Michael Morris asks if two diverse LAN ports to every cube is more trouble than it's worth. Plus: Brocade says it's not worried about Cisco anymore. Protecting Your Network Edge with Reverse Path Forwarding: In the previous post I discussed implementing source filters to secure your network edge boundaries against source spoofing, a common component in Denial of Service attacks. But such filtering requires you to specify the prefixes you expect to see enter your network at a given filtering point; what do you do if there are thousands of prefixes, or a dynamically changing set of prefixes, or both (one usually implies the other)?

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