A round of musical chairs in the identity arena

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	A round of musical chairs in the identity arena Changes. The old French proverb (plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose) states that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But two announcements last week auger big changes -- and things won't be the same again. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symmetricom Enterprise Network Time Synchronization Made Easy This white paper explores various operational areas of network time servers and the EASY aspects that you should expect when you deploy them. This paper tells you why you need accurate, secure and reliable time and what to look for in a network time server for easy set-up and maintenance. Learn More In this Issue Best of the Tests Network Worlds Best Products 2010 Security of virtualization, cloud computing divides IT and security pros 10 strategic security initiatives for every organization FAQ: The Kneber botnet revealed Active Directory: 10 years old and thinking cloud WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Lowering Wireless Data Costs with WAN Optimization Dramatically lower your wireless data costs while significantly speeding applications with mobile WAN optimization tools. Fuji Xerox Australia describes the benefits it has seen since its deployment in this whitepaper. Learn how you can save 30% on 3G data costs while improving application throughput by 20 times. Learn More Best of the Tests We tested more than 100 products in 2009 in a wide variety of categories, but 15 of those products were head and shoulders above the rest and earn our Best of the Tests Award. Here are the categories and winners: Read More Network Worlds Best Products 2010   Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire A Holistic Approach to Compliance Makes Business Sense IT management has tremendous incentive to figure out a new, more effective and comprehensive approach to meeting information security and compliance goals. This webcast will explore those pain points, the solutions, and the best practices organizations should consider to make strategic information security an enabler of business value. Learn More! Security of virtualization, cloud computing divides IT and security pros Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making network security easier or harder? When some 2,100 top IT and security managers in 27 countries were asked, the response revealed a profound lack of consensus, showing how divided attitudes are within the enterprise. Read More 10 strategic security initiatives for every organization SpiderLabs, the advanced security team within the consulting firm TrustWave, has just released its Global Security Report of 2010. The report is based on 200 forensic analyses and 1900 penetration tests conducted by in the past year. Nicholas Percoco of SpiderLabs shares his top 10 security initiatives that every organization should undertake in order to reduce the risk of a costly security breach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Q&A: Virtualization and Cloud Preparedness As more applications are added per compute node in a virtual environment, there is a corresponding increase in I/O requirements. In this Q&A with Brocade CTO, Dave Stevens, he answers questions on how to ensure your network infrastructure, all the way down to the storage level, is ready for virtualization. Read More! FAQ: The Kneber botnet revealed Security vendor NetWitness recently tapped into the logs of a command-and-control server for a botnet it calls Kneber, which has infected at least 75,000 computers at 2,500 companies and government agencies worldwide. Read More Active Directory: 10 years old and thinking cloud Ten years ago, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Today the software is an integral part of nearly every corporate network and stands ready for its next frontier: public and private clouds. Read More
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