Virtual-security appliances winning users over traditional messaging-security software

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	Virtual-security appliances winning users over traditional messaging-security software There's no question enterprises want messaging security -- the market for products and services worldwide reached almost $3.2 billion last year, up from $2.7 billion in 2010, and will grow to $4.78 billion in 2015, according to research firm IDC. But a fundamental shift is occurring that foresees businesses favoring virtual-security appliances over more traditional messaging security software. Read More WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies Experts Help CIOs Rethink Threat Prevention This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more. In this Issue Who are the go-to cybersecurity help groups? Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments X Prize offers $10M competiton to build Star Trek-like medical tricorder Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous? Media Player, security bypass are focus of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012 10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! Who are the go-to cybersecurity help groups? There are a ton of groups out there that offer cybersecurity help and guidance, the trick, it seems is finding the right one for your organization. Read More Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability Exploit code for a recently patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that affects Microsoft's ASP.NET Web development platform has been published online, therefore increasing the risk of potential attacks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study - Psomas As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be. Read now! Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments Visa has added smartphones from Samsung Electronics, Research In Motion and LG Electronics to the list of devices it has certified to work with the 185,000 NFC-based payWave payment terminals in Europe. Read More X Prize offers $10M competiton to build Star Trek-like medical tricorder The X Prize Foundation is out to dramatically change the medical industry by offering a $10 million prize for the company that can build a mobile platform that can accurately diagnoses 15 diseases from 30 consumers in three days. Read More WHITE PAPER: Bradford Networks (BYOD) Unleashed in the Age of IT Consumerization IT departments need to understand what devices are trying to connect to their networks, so they can provide convenient, secure access to those that are authorized, including personal iPads and smartphones. This white paper explains how IT departments can implement a practical and secure strategy and offer the convenience mobile devices provide. Read more Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity. Read More What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous? Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group's name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO. Anonymous in 2011 took on everything from HB Gary to a Mexican cartel, from oil companies to banks, from NBC to a transportation site. The group has positioned itself as a kind of Internet-based Robin Hood; when it hacked banks, the group claimed it was helping "the 99%" by giving money from the banks back to the people who rightfully deserved it. What have companies learned from this year of terror? The most that can be said is that corporate security needs to be shored up. At a conference panel in August it was evident that instead of battening down the security hatches, some companies were looking to just lessen the economic impact of a hack on their site. Network World has assembled some of the key stories surrounding Anonymous, the reactions from enterprise IT and their advice for surviving an attack, in a special PDF report that is free with Insider registration. So take a peek and then register to receive this package of stories about hackers' doings last year and what can be done next. Download "Hacktivists vs. the World" today. [[link]] Read More Media Player, security bypass are focus of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012 Seven bulletins, one deemed critical, and a handful of new Microsoft security issues all arrived today as part of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2012. Read More 10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman Name: Michael Lehman Read More
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