Provisioning and the cloud

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	Provisioning and the cloud At last month's GlueCon conference my buddy Nishant Kaushik (he's lead strategist for identity management at Oracle) delivered a very well-received presentation entitled "Federated Provisioning and the Cloud." He's posted the slides online, but -- more importantly -- he's written a series of blog posts explaining the session and going into much more detail. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue In this Issue Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing Network access control management: Pick your poison Police seize a million child porn pictures from one man Dell backtracks slightly on Ubuntu safety Can X Prize help deliver Gulf region from BP oil disaster? Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail Apple OS X gets IPsec VPN client Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs Security Careers: The Mic is Always On. Always. Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search Supreme Court ruling lets employers view worker text messages with reason Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement Enterasys NAC: Put it on your short list Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex McAfee NAC focuses on endpoint protection 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 Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing One of the main promises of NAC is that you can ensure that endpoint security tools are up to date and that non-compliant machines can be identified or blocked. As regulatory compliance has grown in importance, NAC vendors have reacted by building strong feature sets aimed at endpoint security and compliance. In our NAC testing, we had good, and sometimes great, results across the board when it came to endpoint security. Read More Network access control management: Pick your poison In testing 12 NAC products, we discovered an incredible variety of management styles. To organize our results, we broke things up into three main categories: overall management, separation of control, and high availability. Read More Police seize a million child porn pictures from one man "Someone must have stashed those pictures on my computer; I have no idea how they got there." The lament has become a favorite excuse of child pornography perverts and a nightmare for those legitimately victimized ... but it's obviously not available to this recently arrested Austrian. From an Associated Press story: Austrian authorities say they have arrested a man who hoarded more than a million... Read More Dell backtracks slightly on Ubuntu safety In a move that probably shocks no one, Dell has removed a statement that Ubuntu is more secure than Microsoft Windows from its website.Given that Dell sells computers pre-loaded with Windows, one might imagine the company came under a wee bit of pressure from the software maker. As I reported yesterday, in Dell's Top Ten things you should know about Ubuntu, No. 6 wasUbuntu is safer than Microsoft® ... Read More Can X Prize help deliver Gulf region from BP oil disaster? The X Prize Foundation, known for offering millions of dollars in prize money to drive innovations in aerospace, life science and energy will soon offer its potentially extensive help to the White House in an effort to tackle challenges of the devastating BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google's Street View cars included passwords and e-mail, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL). Read More Apple OS X gets IPsec VPN client Mac users are being offered a new and feature-rich alternative to Apple's in-house OS X VPN client, free of charge to individual users. Read More Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs In online banking and payments, customers' PCs have become the Achilles' heel of the financial industry as cyber-crooks remotely take control of the computers to make unauthorized funds transfers, often to faraway places. Read More Security Careers: The Mic is Always On. Always. "This is a big BLEEPING deal," remarked Vice President Joe Biden. Apparently he forgot the microphones were on and sensitive enough to capture his remark, intended to be private. Read More Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes Facebook recently made some significant changes to its privacy settings, but ten advocacy groups are want the social network to do more. The groups are asking for six additional privacy changes, ranging from providing a more secure user connection to the Facebook site, to giving you more control over how third-party apps access your data. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Intelligent Storage Management at the File Level Many storage management tools for file storage are "dumb." They treat all files the same regardless of business relevance and they lack the ability to automate user-storage management tasks or set policies based on business requirements. Learn how to augment your existing storage management system with intelligence at the file level. Read Now iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search One of the hackers in the group that snatched more than 100,000 iPad owner e-mail addresses from AT&T's servers was arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges after the FBI searched his Arkansas home Read More Supreme Court ruling lets employers view worker text messages with reason The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Ontario, Calif., police department has the right to search through personal text messages sent by employees on city-issued devices. Read More Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement While Cisco's overall NAC strategy is in flux, a NAC Appliance investment is likely to come with substantial purchase protection — just be sure to keep your SMARTnet contract up to date. Read More Enterasys NAC: Put it on your short list Enterasys has done a good job making sure that its NAC product works very well in non-Enterasys networks. Because Enterasys NAC has both in-line and edge-enforcement technologies in a single product line, we think that this is a definite short-list for any 802.1X-based NAC deployment. Read More Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex Trying to describe Juniper's UAC is difficult, because Juniper's NAC strategy has its tendrils in virtually every security product the company makes, from firewalls to switches to SSL VPNs. Read More McAfee NAC focuses on endpoint protection McAfee NAC is clearly slanted towards endpoint security and compliance requirements more than fine-grained network access controls. Because McAfee NAC depends heavily on ePolicy Orchestrator, existing McAfee end-point security customers will find that adding McAfee's NAC to their networks is a very natural and easy extension. Read More
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