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	INSIDER After breaches, higher-ed schools adopt two-factor authentication Payday didn't go as planned on January 2, 2014, for some Boston University employees. On that day, about a dozen faculty members discovered their paychecks hadn't been deposited into their bank accounts. Thieves had changed the victims' direct deposit information and rerouted their pay. BU's IT security team traced the attack to a phishing email sent to 160 people at the university. (Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Rethinking Enterprise Wireless Networks This paper from IDC explores the trends, challenges, and solutions that the latest generations of WiFi architecture deliver. View Now>> In this Issue Researchers debunk marketers' claims that Americans are cool with trading their data What network technology is going to shake up your WAN? 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Learn More Researchers debunk marketers' claims that Americans are cool with trading their data You know those reports citing surveys that found U.S. consumers are fine with having their personal data collected so long as giving up that data means consumers get discounts? Well that's a bunch of bunk perpetrated by marketers who are opening up Americans to exploitation, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Read More What network technology is going to shake up your WAN? Few areas of the enterprise are as ripe for change as the wide area network. And there are plenty of technologies – from hybrid WAN services and software defined networking to better management tools -- lining up to push such a makeover closer to reality. Read More For its next feat, Google will try to make you eat your vegetables If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley's cream of the crop is going on a diet. Read More WHITE PAPER: GT Nexus The Procure-to-Pay Process Manufacturers seek new ways to partner with suppliers to ensure their health, strong performance and optimal delivery of inventory. IDC points out that P2P is a key step in achieving these goals by enabling better planning, execution and access to capital for suppliers. View now>> Iowa presidential election caucuses will go high tech There are some things that are uniquely American, like apple pie, fireworks on the Fourth of July ... and the ridiculous hoopla that surrounds the Iowa caucuses, the first big electoral event in the run-up to the presidential election. Read More Tools for downloading Web sites for OS X, Linux, and Windows The other day I was checking out an excellent free book, Python for Informatics: Exploring Information by Charles Severance, which is available on the site PythonLearn. .I decided to download the sample code from the book but, unfortunately, the samples are in about 65 individual files as well as five subdirectories which, in turn, each contain around half a dozen files. Sitting there and manually downloading each file wasn't something I particularly wanted to do so I looked for a tool to do the job for me and I've come up with a couple of interesting choices. Read More Closing the security loop with automated incident response Organizations have poured billions of dollars into cyber security detection solutions, and while they are exceptional at uncovering potential anomalies and threats, none of these products can guarantee against a breach. Consequently, the next logical step is to pair robust detection and prevention technology with equally efficient and effective operations solutions, including incident response. Read More : Open Text How Businesses Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate Whether you're new to EDI, need to get EDI-compliant or simply want to educate your business colleagues, EDI Basics provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the fundamental concepts. View Now. INSIDER Threat intel sharing: Security breakthrough or flavor of the month? Threat intelligence sharing has become the 'new black' in the world of enterprise security, a trendy buzzword that has become ubiquitous at industry conferences and in vendor marketing pitches. But what exactly is threat intelligence sharing and are we using it effectively to defend against cyberattacks? (Insider Story) Read More DARPA spends $24M to smarten-up WAN edge Officials of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week awarded two contracts worth a total of nearly $24 million to develop new networking and security technologies at the WAN edge. Read More INSIDER 5 Wi-Fi stumblers and analyzers for less than $100 Wi-Fi stumblers and analyzers are a must-have when troubleshooting Wi-Fi interference and performance issues, or when simply checking channel usage on the wireless bands. They're also needed for Wi-Fi site surveys during the network design and deployment phases, as well as for security audits to look for rogue or misconfigured access points. (Insider Story) Read More
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