Juniper: Quick look at security strategy behind its SDN controller security

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	Juniper: Quick look at security strategy behind its SDN controller security   Juniper Networks in September made its software-defined network (SDN) controller known as Contrail generally available. Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer delves into the security strategy behind the Contrail controller in a discussion with Juniper's Senior Director of Product Management Jennifer Linn, and Chris Hoff, vice president of strategic planning in the security business unit at Juniper. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell EMA Radar for Hybrid Cloud Integration Technologies Which cloud integration platform is right for your company? EMA Radar evaluated 7 leading cloud integration platform vendors for the value they deliver. How did they rank? Which is the right fit for your business? Read EMA Radar's report and learn more. 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Read Now "Revenge porn" operator busted over extortion allegations The California-based operator of a revenge porn website who posted more than 10,000 sexually explicit photos and then allegedly tried to extort victims for as much as $350 each to remove the content is sitting in a San Diego jail today with $50,000 bail and possible jail time hanging over his head. Read More   Box adds security, automation to IT admin console Box is prepping a revamped IT administration console for its cloud storage and file sharing service that adds content management, security and workflow automation capabilities. Read More   It Could Be a Very Happy New Year for FireEye Ah, December. Time to reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2014. In retrospect, 2013 was a banner year for the security industry as the world finally woke up to the very real perils of cybersecurity. Of all many events of this year however, FireEye's IPO may have trumped them all. As I write this blog on December 11, 2013, FireEye's market cap is just north of $4.5 billion. Wow! Read... Read More   WHITE PAPER: AT&T Transforming Your Organization with Mobility This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More The week NSA surveillance finally jumped the shark Forget about the complaints from top tech leaders, the NSA's biggest problem is its own ridiculousness. Read More   NSA taps tracking cookies used by Google, others, to monitor surveillance targets The browser cookies that online companies use to track Internet customers for targeted advertising are also used by the National Security Agency to track surveillance targets and break into their systems. Read More   Security tactics might have helped in foreign ministry hacks   Network segmentation that restricts intruders' access to data would have helped contain Chinese hackers who breached computers at the foreign ministries of five European countries, an expert says. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Practices for Success This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now Secret TPP intellectual property agreement misses deadline Negotiators on a secret trade treaty, which includes controversial intellectual property proposals, could not meet their year-end deadline for an agreement this week at Singapore. Read More   Now, more than ever, Twitter knows exactly where you are   Twitter is stepping up its ability to track the location of its users. Read More   300 victims report fake support calls to security org The Internet Storm Center, an arm of the SANS Technology Institute, has started collecting reports of fake support calls in an attempt to figure out how prevalent the scam is among computer owners. Read More   Identity-theft vulnerability fixed in Microsoft Office 365, says security firm Microsoft has plugged a vulnerability in Microsoft Office 365 that would have let attackers grab user identities and steal email and documents, according to Adallom, the security vendor that says it discovered the problem. Read More
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