Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

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	Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies -- including Facebook, Google and Comcast -- have committed to June 6, 2012, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing. However, cloud providers usage agreements squarely make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Read More In this Issue Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC? RSA, unapologetic, looks to move beyond The Breach Full steam ahead for gigabit wireless, report says Data center networking discontinuity impacts network security Alcatel-Lucent, Arbor Networks partner on DDOS mitigation Twitter, Facebook fuel SOPA protests Clamor for cloud apps increases corporate data breach risk LightSquared claims GPS industry rigged tests Survey: Security deployments, training reduce cyberattack wipeouts, downtime 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 Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC? Will 2012 be the year when U.S. retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents Web site spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions - are hoping will occur. Read More RSA, unapologetic, looks to move beyond The Breach Last April's RSA security breach was engineered by a nation-state whose ultimate goal was not to steal secrets about SecurID tokens but rather to use those secrets to compromise U.S. military contractors that protected their networks with the devices, RSA officials say. Read More Full steam ahead for gigabit wireless, report says The uptake of wireless networks based on 802.11ac is expected to be high when the first products arrive later this year, according to a report from IMS Research. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Aerohive Corporate Brochure The way that Wi-Fi is being used and the requirements on an enterprise Wi-Fi network are going through a fundamental and generational change, so much so that we are calling it Wireless 2.0. It's not a new term, but it is a relevant one. Read now. Data center networking discontinuity impacts network security Data center consolidation and server virtualization are creating data centers of massive scale, and thus radically changing the data center environment. Unfortunately, legacy data center networking equipment was not designed for this type of scale and dynamic use case. ESG calls this state data center networking discontinuity. Read More Alcatel-Lucent, Arbor Networks partner on DDOS mitigation Alcatel-Lucent is now offering a router with technology from Arbor Networks that defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks. Read More Twitter, Facebook fuel SOPA protests Several major internet companies and thousands of concerned users are lighting up social networks in efforts to spread opposition to controversial anti-piracy bills now under debate in Congress. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Clamor for cloud apps increases corporate data breach risk Vendor analysis of network and application traffic shows poorly managed remote access tools and traffic flowing outside port 80 are rampant. Read More LightSquared claims GPS industry rigged tests LightSquared's proposed mobile data network was set up to fail in tests of interference with GPS that were conducted last November under government auspices, the would-be cellular carrier charged on Wednesday. Read More Survey: Security deployments, training reduce cyberattack wipeouts, downtime A survey of 1,425 information technology managers in 32 countries about the type of security they deployed on their network endpoints, as well as security training for employees, indicates that these technology investments paid off in mitigating cyberattacks and downtime. Read More
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