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	Danger to IE users climbs as hacker kit adds exploit Microsoft will likely issue an emergency kit to an unpatched IE flaw after it was added to the Eleonore crimeware kit. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Learn more In this Issue US wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Top 10 network vulnerabilities inside the network Election unlikely to slow U.S. cybersecurity efforts Cisco VP talks of data center strategy IT pros, workers show a 'disconnect' over mobile devices and policies Palin e-mail snoop doesn't belong in prison Using logs for forensics after a data breach WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain How to Reduce Your Backup Burden Discover the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now US wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys 4G cell phone, cloud computing, VoIP forensics target of US Department of Justice call for actionThe US Department of Justice this week said it was looking to boost the research and development of technology that could significantly bolster new forensic tools for digital evidence gathering. Read More It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Myopic industry-driven title has become obsoleteBack around 2005, DLP was the buzz term Du Jour within the information security industry. DLP was designed to find sensitive data and make sure that this data wasn't accidentally or maliciously mis-used. The most common DLP implementation was as a network gateway for filtering Layer 7 content. When a DLP devices spotted credit card numbers in an email, it simply blocked this transmission thus preventing... Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Web Organizations around the world are racing to take advantage of social networking and media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Along with these new resources, comes new risk as user-generated content circumvents traditional security technologies such as antivirus and URL filtering. View Now Top 10 network vulnerabilities inside the network Today's state-of-the-art network security appliances do a great job of keeping the cyber monsters from invading your business. But what do you do when the monster is actually inside the security perimeter? Unfortunately, all of the crosses, garlic, wooden stakes and silver bullets in the world have little effect on today's most nefarious cyber creatures. Here are the top 10 ways your network can be attacked from inside and what you can do to insure your business never has to perform an exorcism on your servers. Read More Election unlikely to slow U.S. cybersecurity efforts Security experts expect the divided congress to remain mostly bipartisan on efforts to enact cybersecurity and online privacy measures. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Bailing Out Your Budget: How to Lower Your TCO The Websense® TRITON™ solution is a unified content security solution that not only delivers better protection against modern threats but also does so with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Read More Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Cisco Vice President of IT John Manville discusses the company's data center makeover strategy, the migration to the company's own Unified Computing System, the benefits of cloud and the new IT organizational structure with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More IT pros, workers show a 'disconnect' over mobile devices and policies Two-thirds of workers in a survey for Cisco said their companies need to improve IT policies; at the same time, 20% of IT professionals said their relationship with employees is "strained and dysfunctional." Read More Palin e-mail snoop doesn't belong in prison Now that Election Day is behind us, judgment day nears for David Kernell, the 22-year-old son of a Tennessee politician who was convicted earlier this year of prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account two months before the 2008 presidential election. Read More Using logs for forensics after a data breach Despite the best precautions, it is impossible to protect your network against every attack. When the inevitable happens, your log data can be critical for identifying the cause of the breach and collecting evidence for use in the legal system. That is, if your logs were properly configured before the breach happened. Read More
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