Review: Portnox, Extreme lead NAC pack

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	INSIDER Review: Portnox, Extreme lead NAC pack NAC hasn't disappeared. In fact, NAC products have evolved and improved as well. For this review, we were able to bring the following five vendors together: Enterasys/Extreme Networks Mobile IAM, Hexis Cyber Solutions NetBeat NAC, Impulse Point SafeConnect NAC, Pulse Policy Secure, and Portnox NAC. (Cisco, ForeScout, Auconet, and Aruba declined our invitation.) Read More   In this Issue GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks Facebook reveals the logic behind its forced Messenger split INSIDER Will open source save the Internet of Things? NAC is back. And better than ever Tim Cook plans to donate all his money to charity Intel could strengthen its server product stack with Altera Using Aylien intelligence to analyze your data Yepzon: Tracking your stuff in the real world has just become affordable India backs open source software for e-governance projects WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Who's Spying on You? You're aware of the threats of malware to your business but what about the ever-changing ground rules? Cybercriminals today are launching attacks against businesses by copying sophisticated malware and techniques used to target governments and high-profile organizations. View Now GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks Software development platform GitHub said Sunday it was still experiencing intermittent outages from the largest cyberattack in its history but had halted most of the attack traffic. Read More   Facebook reveals the logic behind its forced Messenger split Facebook annoyed and puzzled many people last year when it forced them to download its Messenger app for chats. Its reasons for doing so are now clearer: Messenger is becoming a beast of an app, with its own links to outside businesses and software apart from Facebook's main site. Read More     INSIDER Will open source save the Internet of Things? To some degree, open source is already present throughout the Internet of Things value chain. Cloud apps that collect and analyze data are heavily dependent on open source software and standards, for example. (Insider Story) Read More   : Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Be the One Who Puts Security on the Agenda eBook You want to maximize the potential offered by new technologies and establish an advantage over your competitors. But you know the latest IT developments can also bring new security challenges. This practical guide helps you align essential IT security with your core business objectives. Learn More NAC is back. And better than ever For this review, we were able to bring the following five vendors together: Enterasys/Extreme Networks Mobile IAM, Hexis Cyber Solutions NetBeat NAC, Impulse Point SafeConnect NAC, Pulse Policy Secure, and Portnox NAC. Read More   Tim Cook plans to donate all his money to charity On the path to becoming a billionaire, like many prominent tech CEOs before him, Apple's Tim Cook isn't the type of guy prone to blowing large sums of cash on lavish expenditures like yachts, mansions, and fast cars. On the contrary, Cook revealed in a recent in-depth interview with Fortune that he plans to quietly give away all of his money to charity, save of course some money set aside for his nephew's college education. Read More   Intel could strengthen its server product stack with Altera Intel's chips dominate servers in data centers, but the possible acquisition of Altera could help the company provide a wider variety of custom chips designed to speed up specific applications, analysts said on Friday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Data Warehouse Modernization: The Queryable Data Store Read the paper to understand how data can be stored and optimized with Hadoop, to assess whether or not you need a queryable data store, and to find out how you can try IBM InfoSphere BigInsights software's key enterprise features for free. Read More Using Aylien intelligence to analyze your data As you massage your piles of Big Data, particularly when the data comes from social media, you'll often come across tasks such as extracting "clean" text from HTML content, summarizing content, extracting concepts and entities, classifying the content, and identifying the contents of images. Read More   Yepzon: Tracking your stuff in the real world has just become affordable   Keeping track of your stuff is hard enough when it's in your office or your home but when it's running around in the real world and you want to track it in real time it's next to impossible, at least, next to impossible at a reasonable price. But technology marches on and a new company, Yepzon, have just made tracking your stuff far more affordable. Read More   India backs open source software for e-governance projects India has said it will use open source software in all e-governance projects, though it did not rule out the use of proprietary software to meet specialized requirements. Read More
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