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	Apple comes down hard on iPhone leakers What do you do when one of your employees takes your company's top-secret prototype and leaves it behind in a beer garden, only to have it end up in the hands of a gadget blog? Call in the authorities and let them play the heavy. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict InfoSec: NHS worst culprit for data breaches "Potentially dangerous" asteroid flashes past Earth What's wrong with the PCI security standard PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010 Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics Top Ten IT issues addressed at Melbourne Summit Study: Users OK with mobile devices for transactions Symantec Moving to Define an Encryption Architecture WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week. Read More InfoSec: NHS worst culprit for data breaches The NHS has reported the highest number of serious data breaches of any organistion since November 2007, according to disclosures revealed by the Information Commissioner's Office. Read More "Potentially dangerous" asteroid flashes past Earth A 1,300 ft or about a quarter-mile long asteroid passed Earth last week at a distance of 1.5 million miles.  Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! What's wrong with the PCI security standard The security standard used to protect credit cards isn't up to the task and upgrades that are planned for this fall do virtually nothing to improve it, a security expert told Interop attendees this week. Read More PDF exploits explode, continue climb in 2010 Exploits of Adobe's PDF format jumped dramatically last year, and continue to climb during 2010, a McAfee security researcher said. Read More Opt-in ISP-level Internet filter wasn't feasible: Academics An opt-in/opt-out ISP-level filter, first suggested in the February 2008 Feasibility Study into ISP Level Content Filtering, was never a feasible alternative to the current ACMA blacklist, according to academics and industry experts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Deployment Strategies for 802.11n Many organizations are looking to reap the benefits of the new 802.11n standard, but what is the best way to deploy wireless technology while minimizing costs? Learn why understanding the "Three Cs"-context, coverage, and capacity-is critical for choosing an optimal network implementation strategy. Read More! Top Ten IT issues addressed at Melbourne Summit The Autumn Members Meeting held last week in Melbourne by the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) has presented on the top ten issues facing university IT directors in 2010. Read More Study: Users OK with mobile devices for transactions Most mobile device users worldwide feel safe using their mobile devices for applications that involve highly-sensitive information, including accessing airline boarding passes; making payments in stores for low-cost items; or to access online banking, according to research conducted by Unisys Corporation. But acceptance levels vary by age, with younger users more comfortable conducting sensitive mobile transactions compared to older users. Read More Symantec Moving to Define an Encryption Architecture Today, Symantec announced that it is acquiring two encryption companies, GuardianEdge and PGP. Some will see this as a late counter punch to Check Point's acquisition of PointSec, McAfee's acquisition of SafeBoot, and Sophos's acquisition of Utimaco. In other words, Symantec is finally getting in the full-disk encryption game primarily on laptops. Wrong interpretation. Symantec does get endpoint... Read More
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