Shortcuts to PCI Compliance; New Cisco rap video; Amazon EC2 and Symantec

View the hottest new rap video: The sensational Cisco Catalyst 6509 NetFlow rap song; Happy 25th Anniversary, Cisco Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Learn more Spotlight Story Five Shortcuts to PCI Compliance Cisco security expert Jamey Heary writes: We all know that the key to becoming PCI compliant is how well you control the number of in-scope devices. Obviously, the smaller your scope the better. But how to judiciously reduce your PCI scope without breaking everything and costing you a ton of cash? Re-architecting your network to reduce and define PCI scope might be one of the first action items as you work towards compliance. Unfortunately, it is also a big hurdle. You know what they say, "When on a trip around the lake, always paddle into the wind first." Ok, I made that up but it doesn't change the fact that your PCI journey is very front end loaded. Read full story Related News: View the hottest new rap video: The sensational Cisco Catalyst 6509 NetFlow rap song Brad Reese: Plixer International has released its new rap video featuring the geeky but highly talented Cisco NetFlow hip-hop rap sensation - Mix Master Mitch. Happy 25th Anniversary, Cisco The Cisco Subnet blog: Today is Cisco's 25th birthday. The company was founded December 10, 1984, by two former Stanford University computer scientists, and the rest, as they say, is history. Reasons not to buy Cisco The Cisco Subnet blog: Goldman Sachs a few weeks ago published survey results on IT spending patterns for 2009, going into 2010, from 100 IT executives at Fortune 1000 firms. The survey found that pricing pressure is increasing, which could lead to share losses for Cisco. Amazon EC2 and Symantec: What Does it Mean? Symantec announced today that it will offer host security and storage management products through the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). An Early Gift for MySQL servers Jimmy Ray Purser: Trying to keep up with all of the possible attack vectors and decreasing your attack surface is like trying to eat Minute Rice with chop sticks. It's a full time job! I used to blame a lot of attacks on PHP because it deserves it. Market transitions and architectures key for Cisco enterprise growth The Cisco Subnet blog: Despite its dominance in enterprise networking -- 82% share in routing and 70% in switching -- Cisco still sees plenty of growth potential. The key is selling a network, not a switch or a router. Blue Gears: vSphere Upgrade, use Host Profiles to Save Time Edward Haletky: If you have to upgrade a VMware VI3 Cluster it may be best to use Host Profiles at least temporarily while you complete the cluster upgrade. But beware the gotchas. Cisco not big on smartphones The Cisco Subnet blog: Cross that Cisco smartphone off your Christmas list. CEO John Chambers said in this Bloomberg interview that he's not big on the company offering one of its own. Way too Easy: Dynamips Under Linux was a Breeze Wendell Odom: I'm beginning to wonder why I didn't do this earlier. It looks like the path to a humming fast Dynamips (DM) server isn't all that painful. CUCM Common Device Configuration Dennis Hartmann: Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 5.0 introduced the common device configuration elements which provide a pool of configuration elements that can be assigned to multiple devices. Savvis puts Cisco UCS to use The Cisco Subnet blog: An early beta tester of Cisco's Unified Computing System, service provider Savvis, is now trialing a private cloud service with the data center platform. From Cisco Subnet This is the Friday edition of Network World's Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Happy 25th Anniversary, Cisco and Five Shortcuts to PCI Compliance; On Microsoft Subnet: everRun 2G: Keeps your applications highly available On Google Subnet: Google adds discussion forums, e-mail lists to Google Apps Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Ethernet everywhere! Inside planes, trains, cars and spaceships, Ethernet is a morph master. 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