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	Can you guarantee secure remote access from devices in the wild? In the course of scores of conversations about security, I have regularly elicited a gobsmacked silence with a simple question: "How do you reliably secure access from an untrusted computer?" Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave More Power, Lower Price, Earn $15 GC iPrism Web Security's 500h appliance delivers 1Gbps of throughput for unrivalled speed and performance across your enterprise. We've got the power to handle your biggest pipeline. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. In this Issue Waledac botnet poised for a rebound with stolen credentials It's Time To Re-Examine Endpoint Security NIST puts one more nail in the Mercury thermometer coffin Cloud services could bolster national cyber security Is spying on teenage drivers an invasion of privacy or a parent's right? Appliance bolsters corporate web access, e-mail security The politics of cyberspace Danger, Danger: The Cloud Will Eat Your Data WEBCAST: F5 Networks Secure DNS with BIG-IP v10.1 DNSSEC Domain Name System (DNS) provides one of the most basic but critical functions on the Internet. If DNS isn't working, then your business likely isn't either. Secure your business and web presence with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on F5 BIG-IP v10.1 Learn more now! Waledac botnet poised for a rebound with stolen credentials The Waledac botnet, crippled by legal action from Microsoft and covert infiltration by security researchers just a year ago, appears poised for a big comeback. Read More It's Time To Re-Examine Endpoint Security Commodity viewpoint is erroneous -- and dangerousBack in 2007, ESG Research asked 206 IT security professionals to respond to the following statement: "Desktop security has become a commodity market with little difference between products." As expected, 58% of respondents either strongly agreed (17%) or agreed (41%) with this statement. In other words, it really didn't matter whether your ran Internet security tools from Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft,... Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Web Security Gateway Solutions Demo This demo provides a hands on view of Websense Web Security Gateway solutions and how they enable safe productive use of today's dynamic, interactive Web. Learn More Now! NIST puts one more nail in the Mercury thermometer coffin Mercury still found in many industrial applications but alternatives to the poisonous product existThe venerable Mercury thermometer has been on its way out for a number of years and the National Institute of Standards and Technology next month may give it a final push. Read More Cloud services could bolster national cyber security The shift to cloud computing offers an opportunity to better secure the national digital infrastructure by concentrating the burden of cyber security among a relatively small number of service providers rather than thousands of individual businesses, according to a report by a foreign policy think tank. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Application-Aware Network Performance Management Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. Is spying on teenage drivers an invasion of privacy or a parent's right? DriveCam executive defends American Family Insurance's Teen Driver surveillance technology and answers critics charges that captured footage violates privacy.Teenage drivers crash nine times more often than adults. Teens drive more safely when parents are riding in the car with them, but parents can't always ride with them. So some turn to technology to capture audio and video of teenage drivers in an effort to make them feel watched, as if their parents were there. Read More Appliance bolsters corporate web access, e-mail security Websense today unveiled three new gateway security products for e-mail, Web and data-loss prevention that combines an on-premises appliance with secure content filtering in the cloud. Read More The politics of cyberspace Using Computer-Aided Thematic Analysis (CATA), I organized over 300 transcripts, interview and lecture podcasts and video clips into groups for each of the weeks in the course. Read More Danger, Danger: The Cloud Will Eat Your Data People place too much confidence in "the cloud". Newsflash: Placing your mission-critical data in "the cloud" may be hazardous to your health. You are at an increased risk if you are elderly, pregnant, or wish to keep your IT job. Read More
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