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	A hazy view of cloud security A recent survey of 384 business managers from large enterprises revealed that confusion abounds about cloud data security. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Rival calls foul over Microsoft's delivering Security Essentials via Windows Update Don't be an application bigot EU tests cyberwarfare defences in low-key simulation Microsoft: Cloud services hampered by unclear data rules USB devices play part in one out of every eight attacks Protect your photo rights online Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix WHITE PAPER: CA The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More Rival calls foul over Microsoft's delivering Security Essentials via Windows Update Microsoft this week began offering U.S. customers its free antivirus program via Windows' built-in update service, a move one major security firm said may be anticompetitive. Read More Don't be an application bigot Many security decisions and acceptable use policies are based on a false categorization of applications. "Business applications" are good, safe and have business value. "Personal applications" are bad, unsafe and have no business value. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Be the Change: Discover the 3D Scaling Advantage Imagine a platform that can scale up to provide improved performance and throughput as its host servers consolidate, scale out to deliver capacity, performance and bandwidth from a shared pool of resources as more and more host servers are connected to it, and scale deep by connecting external storage. Read Now EU tests cyberwarfare defences in low-key simulation States across Europe have today carried out the region's first ever cyber-attack 'desk simulation' designed to find weak spots in the way government organisations might behave if faced with the real thing. Read More Microsoft: Cloud services hampered by unclear data rules The patchwork of rules across Europe regarding the handling of data poses a hurdle for Microsoft's efforts to provide cloud-based services, a senior Microsoft attorney said on Thursday. Read More WEBCAST: Emerson Network Power Hands-on DC management shouldn't give you paper cuts This webcast demonstrates how field-proven Avocent MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer software is already providing substantial ROI for data centers up to 500 racks. Its dynamic, graphic interface gives a deep view of your data center to help you more efficiently plan changes, lower operating costs, and deliver on-target capacity planning. Watch Now. USB devices play part in one out of every eight attacks One out of every eight computer attacks is being made via USB devices targeting the Windows AutoRun function, according to security software firm Avast. Read More Protect your photo rights online A big part of the joy of photography is sharing your images with others. The Internet has made it easy to instantly show your shots to friends, family, and even people you don't know. Many photographers post their work to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, photography forums, or their own blogs and websites. Read More Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database Privacy groups have raised alarms over plans by the federal Office of Personnel Management to build a database that would contain information about the healthcare claims of millions of Americans. Read More Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, all of them rated as high-level threats by the company's security team. Read More
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