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	The Security Industry All-Stars From Bruce Schneier to Moxie Marlinspike, these folks are the one's to isten to for security insight Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Understanding Web Application Security This paper examines current trends in Web application security, assessing the present threat environment as well as limitations in existing approaches to protection. Learn more In this Issue 'Advanced persistent threat' concerns boosting security budgets How to have real risk management NASA looking at building tractor beams for space Firewalls In The Clouds Harvard to welcome back Facebook CEO, ex-student Mark Zuckerberg Stallman parody site catches Stallman's attention Biden, Cameron hit out at Internet censorship, hacking Researchers defeat CAPTCHA on popular websites They are the 11 percent (or less) who really get security US intelligence group wants to change the way chips are made Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks 10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do Choosing a next-generation firewall is more than a simple comparison of technical features. It's about balancing the needs of the business with the risks associated with modern applications. Gain access to valuable information in one location- read articles and watch videos that will empower you to make the right decision. Learn More! 'Advanced persistent threat' concerns boosting security budgets Heightened awareness about stealthy network attacks designed to steal sensitive information -- what some call the "advanced persistent threat" -- is having an impact in raising security budgets and increasing executive management involvement in information technology, according to a survey published today. Read More How to have real risk management Akamai Technologies CSO Andy Ellis talks about some of the things organizations need to consider in order to better manage risk. Read More NASA looking at building tractor beams for space Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light – have generally been the purview of Star Trek and other science fiction shows but NASA has real-life space plans for the far-out technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Phones Become the Leading Multi-Factor Authentication Device According to a leading analyst firm phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Read now Firewalls In The Clouds Where is your firewall? Yes, it's in a rack—but where's the rack? Increasingly, we find organizations looking to a layered firewall model where the first line of defense is not in a rack in the data center, it's in the cloud. Organizations are turning to cloud-based firewall services for traditional firewall functions as well as defense against distributed denial of service. In this second... Read More Harvard to welcome back Facebook CEO, ex-student Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is embarking on a tour of three major universities that will take him to Harvard on Nov. 7, the school where he created the famous web site then dropped out of and moved the operation to Silicon Valley in 2004. Read More Stallman parody site catches Stallman's attention A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody Web site - The Stallman Dialogues - as well as some debate over the propriety of poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation. Stallman himself has an opinion on the latter issue, which we'll get to at the... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Optimizing Information with a Tiered Storage Architecture Oracle's approach to the use of tiered storage provides a solution that optimizes performance, cost and capacity across the breadth of storage media available today. Learn more. Biden, Cameron hit out at Internet censorship, hacking U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday condemned efforts by some countries to censor their citizens' use of the Internet, making a case that free expression online has long-term benefits. Read More Researchers defeat CAPTCHA on popular websites Researchers from Stanford University have developed an automated tool that is capable of deciphering text-based anti-spam tests used by many popular websites with a significant degree of accuracy. Read More They are the 11 percent (or less) who really get security Our survey shows only a small percentage of respondents making a top priority of data protection, strengthened governance and risk-based investments. Read More US intelligence group wants to change the way chips are made The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that U.S. security and intellectual property protection is baked in. Read More Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push Cisco today announced a former VMware executive will head up the newly formed Cisco Security Group at Cisco, which combines two formerly separate units into one security-focused group. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Security Industry All-Stars Welcome to the Security All-Stars! Here we have assembled our list of top players in information security who year after year demonstrate the specialized skills that make them worth listening to. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012 iPhone 4S owners report dramatic battery drain First look: Android 4 'Ice cream sandwich' Ubuntu Unity instead of Windows 7 and ready to scream PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky The ugliest laptops ever made Are you ready for networking in the cloud? iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Oct. 28 Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware Cisco seen turning things around
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