Cloud vision or clouded vision?

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	Cloud vision or clouded vision? I missed the recent Catalyst Conference, the first I've missed in a dozen years. But over the next few weeks I will bring up things from the conference, as reported by a number of friends who did attend. But thinking about Catalyst, I looked to see what happened there 10 years ago as, perhaps, a good topic for one of our occasional "10 years ago in this newsletter," and I did find a gem. Read More REPORT: Radiant Logic, Inc Download Latest Gartner Report on IdM Today's centralized identity infrastructure can't keep up with tomorrow's increasingly federated demands, from user-centric identity, to Identity-as-a-Service, and the cloud. In "The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management," Gartner outlines a vision for tomorrow's identity landscape--one with virtualization at its core. Download the report--free! In this Issue US military wants to protect social media privacy FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems Black Hat gets its video feed hacked U.S. should seek world cooperation on cyber conflict, says ex-CIA director Researchers tout glass invisibility cloak FBI rings organizers over Defcon contest Best practices for cleaning up your firewall rule base Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches X Prize opens $1.4M competition for technology to rapidly clean up oil spills WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminat This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Read Now. US military wants to protect social media privacy Military researchers are embarking on a project designed to provide social media users on Facebook or even Google for that matter, greater privacy. Read More FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems The FBI has in the past two years seen a major uptick in the use social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace for cyber crime and today it detailed that problem to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Read More Black Hat gets its video feed hacked A security expert found a way to catch the talks at Black Hat for free, thanks to bugs in the video streaming service used by the security conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ESG: Business Value of Reservationless Storage Capacity This report explores the value of some exciting new storage technologies which are collectively known as "reservationless storage." ESG Lab hands-on testing of the HP StorageWorks product line and analysis are used to quantify the business value of reservationless storage. Read Now U.S. should seek world cooperation on cyber conflict, says ex-CIA director The U.S. needs to consider working with other leading nations to develop rules of engagement in cyberspace, retired general and former director of the CIA Michael Hayden said during a keynote address at the Black Hat conference here on Thursday. Read More Researchers tout glass invisibility cloak Using magnetic resonance technology and glass material, a team of researchers Michigan Tech and Penn State says they can create a cloak that will make objects invisible to human eyes. Read More FBI rings organizers over Defcon contest A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now. Best practices for cleaning up your firewall rule base After years of use, the rule bases that drive your network firewalls get unwieldy -- clogged with expired, obsolete, duplicative and conflicting policies. For better performance, stronger security and compliance with regulations, you'll want to clean up those rule bases. In this article, technical experts and customers of Tufin Technologies, a firewall management provider, offer their best practices for cleaning your firewall rule base, either manually or with tools that automate the process. Read More Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches The Microsoft Vulnerability Research program said Wednesday that third party developers have patched less than half the bugs it reported to them over the past 12 months. Read More X Prize opens $1.4M competition for technology to rapidly clean up oil spills As expected, X Prize Foundation today announced a $1.4 Million competition for advanced technology to help clean up devastating oil spills like the one currently Read More
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