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Wireless medical devices face myriad security concerns

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Wireless medical devices face myriad security concerns
The growing use of wireless technology combined with the complexity of many of medical devices has raised concerns about how protected they are against information security risks that could affect their safety and effectiveness. Read More


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Why Traditional Network Monitoring Tools Fall Short
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Blueprint to Secure Cloud-Based Communications
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Criminals hack Adobe certificate
Criminals have broken into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. Read More

Tufin's SecureApp Completes Triad Of Security Policy Mangement
It's all about the apps. That seems to be what we are hearing over and over again these days, as computing moves to an app-centric model. In security the reaization that it is the apps that matter is causing us to rethink how to manage and secure our networks. Read More

CIOs Should Get to Know Their Chief Legal Officers
CIOs and chief legal officers need to communicate early and often to build a deeper relationship. Discussion topics include data privacy, e-discovery and policies for mobile devices. Read More


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Splunk Enables Security and Improves Business Performance
Read this analyst case study on how the Interac organization used Splunk to centralize and correlate monitoring data across its diverse IT landscape. Learn the details of how the Interac organization realized an annual ROI of over $500k. Read Now!

Think tank's website rejects browser do-not-track requests
The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the U.S. government. Read More

Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University's new lab
Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products' strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly-named lab director. Read More

You might be surprised at which Web browser aced this security test
Microsoft IE9 blew away Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari in new tests by NSS Labs to measure the ability of web browsers to block malware and catch click fraud. Read More


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Get Your WI-FI Ready For Airprint and Airplay
Let your users wirelessly print from iPads, project in conference rooms, and share content using Apple TVs. Aruba AirGroup makes it possible to use Apple Bonjour services in the enterprise or in classrooms. With AirGroup, only the necessary set of services are made visible to mobile devices, based on the user identity and location. Read now.

5 dysfunctional IT relationships -- and how to repair them
Sys admins are from Mars, developers are from Venus, and legal is from hell -- here's how to heal friction among IT factions Read More

ACLU: Electronic surveillance by US agencies skyrocketing
U.S. law enforcement surveillance of email and other Internet communication has skyrocketed in the last two years, according to data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Read More

As promised, Islamic hacktivists disrupt PNC Bank
PNC Bank's website was disrupted on Thursday by a group of Islamic hactivists who have also claimed responsibility for downing the sites this week of Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank. Read More

 
 
 

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