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	New security tools protect virtual machines As enterprises move towards virtualizing more of their servers and data center infrastructure, the security technologies that are plentiful and commonplace in the physical world become few and far between. Read More WEBCAST: Trend Micro Deep Security with Trend Micro Watch this video of users of Trend Micro Deep Security and hear how it is ensuring regulatory compliance and preventing server, desktop and cloud data breaches. View now! In this Issue The DDoS Hall of Shame SSD Security Issues Surprise Experts After attacks, Google vows to fortify Android Market How We Tested Virtualization Security CIOs plot their response to tech's unstoppable forces Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period Google throws 'kill switch' on Android phones Microsoft can't wait for IE6 to die SonicWall CEO: Application awareness crucial for IT security WHITE PAPER: CA Next-Generation IAM Traditional IAM does not ensure the protection required for adequate security nor does it provide the flexibility needed today. Next-generation IAM enables IT to better control and secure identities and their access rights and goes further by controlling how sensitive information is communicated. Read Now The DDoS Hall of Shame Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks like the ones that nailed WordPress blogs in early March have been around for decades, but it's only in the last dozen years that they've had enough impact  to grab public attention. Read More SSD Security Issues Surprise Experts Many storage and security experts were surprised by a UC San Diego study that found that solid-state drives are harder to erase than hard disk drives. Read More After attacks, Google vows to fortify Android Market Google will build new safeguards into Android Market, its application store for the Android mobile OS, following an attack that infected thousands of phones and forced the company to wipe the malware remotely from phones, it said late Saturday. Read More WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion PacketSentry Virtual Segmentation While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter, when deployed internally for PCI scope segmentation they have significant deficiencies. This white paper outlines the issues faced with leveraging firewalls for internal network segmentation, and how PacketSentry bypasses these issues with a unique out of band approach. Read now! How We Tested Virtualization Security We did not test performance. We concentrated on what it took to setup new policies, hosts, reports, and user roles in each product, and how the various parts of each product worked to protect a typical multi-host ESX installation. Read More CIOs plot their response to tech's unstoppable forces CIOs at Computerworld's Premier 100 conference share their responses to the IT trends, including mobile devices, ubiquity and cloud computing. Read More Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period Wells Fargo imposes strict regulations on employee-owned mobile devices and social networking sites because of security risks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Maximizing UPS Availability This white paper explains why, contrary to popular belief, modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail. Read More Google throws 'kill switch' on Android phones For only the second time, Google has remotely deleted Android apps from users' phones, moving to erase malware-infected applications that users had downloaded from the Android Market. Read More Microsoft can't wait for IE6 to die Microsoft is counting down the IE6 browser's dying breaths with a new website Read More SonicWall CEO: Application awareness crucial for IT security SonicWall once focused on small and midsize businesses, but its introduction earlier this year of a next-generation firewall line dubbed SuperMassive leaves no doubt that the company is now taking aim at larger enterprises. In fact, the privately-held San Jose company's CEO, Matt Madeiros, says the enterprise market accounted for nearly half of SonicWall's sales over the past six months. Read More
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