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	Securing your Wi-Fi airspace The difference in areas that security sensors must scan in order to protect unlicensed wireless networks in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz ranges is vast - ranging from 15,000 squar feet to 90,000 square feet. Here are tips on planning an implementing such sensor networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! In this Issue Online Payment Security: Should Government Intervene? Perfume business rescued from DDoS attack Cloud computing security challenges unite hosting providers, security specialists Security Spending Segmentation Microsoft recruited top notch guns for Waledac takedown Researchers question Microsoft's botnet take-down Shut-down security Web site revived after Microsoft recants WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Effectively Optimize your SSL VPN Guarantee your SSL VPN is operating at peak performance by selecting a robust and cost-effective WAN optimization solution. Support a secure and low-latency VPN that allows employees to work productively from anywhere. Download this whitepaper to learn more. Learn More Online Payment Security: Should Government Intervene? Cambridge University researchers have attacked 3D Secure as a poorly designed authentication scheme and call for regulatory intervention to protect consumers. Read More Perfume business rescued from DDoS attack No website, however unlikely, is beyond the reach of the dreaded distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS), with cloud security outfit Prolexic publicizing a pre-Christmas attack on a web perfume seller. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Cloud computing security challenges unite hosting providers, security specialists As cloud computing adoption climbs, hosting providers are inking deals with security vendors to provide security-as-a-service options to customers. But will enterprise IT managers buy into these often novel forms of security woven into a cloud computing environment? Read More Security Spending Segmentation Most enterprises and mid-sized businesses will increase security spending in 2010, but more enterprises (61%) than mid-size businesses (48%) will increase their outlay. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ultrium Best Practices for Long-Term Data Retention Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. This paper discusses the 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection. Learn More Microsoft recruited top notch guns for Waledac takedown University researchers had already figured out how to take over the Waledac botnet, and then at the urging of Microsoft, went ahead and did so. Read More Researchers question Microsoft's botnet take-down Security researchers today raised doubts that Microsoft's take-down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. Read More Shut-down security Web site revived after Microsoft recants Microsoft took down cryptome.org because it posted a Microsoft document about how it stores customer data, but then relented and let the site back online, including the document in question. Read More
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