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WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

Can you deploy a new application in days rather than months?
In this executive Q&A, Cloud Luminary and PGi CTO David Guthrie discusses how the cloud computing platform helped his company scale up immediately by getting his applications running efficiently in a matter of days, rather than months. Learn More

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Gartner Names Palo Alto Networks a Leader
Palo Alto Networks was named leader for Enterprise Network Firewalls. According to Gartner, vendors in the leaders quadrant "lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability, rather than treating the firewall as a commodity, and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products." Click to continue

4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking
A company's domain name is one of its most valuable assets, yet businesses do little to protect them from being hijacked. As DNS hijacking becomes more prevalent, IT leaders need to understand how they can protect their companies from the damages domain hijacking wreaks. Here are four tips. Read More

Mobile device management: Apple's extra little tricky requirement
Anyone wanting to buy mobile-device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage Google Android devices, for instance. Read More

Navy wants electromagnetic railgun to pump out 100s of rounds per minute
The US Navy wants to develop the power system necessary to get its prototype electromagnetic railgun to fire hundreds of rounds per minute rather than the single shot it is capable of today. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Internap

New eBook: Choosing a Green Colocation Provider
As the world's appetite for apps increases, so does the demand for processing power and the energy to fuel it. Is your colocation provider truly addressing this growing need with sensitivity to the environment? Learn More

Kelihos botnet still dead, say Microsoft, Kaspersky
Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware. Read More

The in-depth guide to data destruction
A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs. Read More

Malware automates storing of data haul on file-hosting site SendSpace
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

What to Look for in Smart Card Readers
Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More

How to protect online transactions
The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats. Read More

10 questions for Total Defense CFO Marcus Smith
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Copyright lawsuit targets owners of non-secure wireless networks
A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content. Read More

Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X
Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Read More



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