Security experts push back at 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' warning

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	Security experts push back at 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' warning The nation's top national security leaders have not convinced every expert in the cybersecurity community their warnings over cyberattacks are valid, and there is now some increasingly vocal push-back from some of them. Read More WEBCAST: Aternity Strategies for Ensuring Desktop Virtualization SLAs Desktop Virtualization is the top cloud-based technology impacting End User Computing. And, user-centric, Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management is the primary factor against which cloud-based virtual desktop solutions will be evaluated. Don't let your VDI project get derailed by poor end user experience. Register now. In this Issue You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone How (and why) to surf the Web in secret Government secrecy around IT failure will undermine its Big Data plans, says PAC chair How to properly use a load balancer in Cisco's Identity Services Engine Sandy wounded servers, some grievously, say services firms Are lawyers getting in the way of cloud-based security? 2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday WHITE PAPER: FireEye Intensified Dangers of Email-Based Attacks Keep your organization safe by staying educated. Download this report to learn more about identifying and preventing cyber attacks. Learn more. You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone Too often, we hear how researchers can take supposedly anonymized or obfuscated PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data and exploit "linkability threats" to re-identify individuals such as in I know where you are and what you are sharing and deanonymizing you after one mouse click on a website. Read More How (and why) to surf the Web in secret They say no one can hear you scream in space, but if you so much as whisper on the Web, you can be tracked by a dozen different organizations and recorded for posterity. Simply visiting a website can allow its operators to figure out your general physical location, identify details about your device information, and install advertising cookies that can track your movements around the web. (Don't believe me? Check this out.) Read More WEBCAST: PhoneFactor Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away Join Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor Chief Technology Officer, and Sarah Fender, PhoneFactor Vice President of Marketing & Product Management, to learn how phone-based authentication is helping companies tackle complex authentication challenges. Learn More Government secrecy around IT failure will undermine its Big Data plans, says PAC chair Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has called the government's transparency agenda into question by criticising its unwillingness to publish data about struggling IT projects, which in turn undermines its plans for taking advantage of big data. Read More How to properly use a load balancer in Cisco's Identity Services Engine So, this is my first blog post on here. Hope it goes well. One of the most commonly asked questions of late is how to properly use a load-balancer with Cisco's Identity Services Engine. Here are some basic guidelines to use when configuring a Load Balancer for the ISE Policy Services Nodes (PSNs). Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Solve QoS Problems in VoIP Call Centers View this short video "Maintaining High VoIP Quality for Call/Contact Centers with Network Time Machine", to learn more about how carrier and call center customers are using Network Time Machine to rapidly determine problem domain and identify choke points in the network. View Now! Sandy wounded servers, some grievously, say services firms Companies that specialize in data recovery are still getting many calls for help from businesses and institutions whose equipment was damaged by the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Read More Are lawyers getting in the way of cloud-based security? In an age where enterprises and their employees are being relentlessly targeted with malware-based phishing, denial-of-service and other attacks, the ability of the IT security staff to defend their networks and valuable corporate data faces yet one more obstacle, according to some: their own company lawyers. Read More 2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises Mobile application developers and wireless network engineers can expect a 9% and 7.9% increase in starting salaries, respectively, says recruiting and staffing specialist Robert Half Technology. Read More Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. Read More
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