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	Quiz: Do you know IT security? Security is the No.1 priority for corporate networking executives, which means staying on top of the broad range of technologies used to fulfill the predominant model of network protection - defense in depth. Here is a quiz that draws questions from the vast spectrum of security options, including authentication, cryptograpy, firewalls, VPNs and more. Keep track of your score and see how well you do at the end. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Building Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands For a viable archiving strategy, you need to know the regulatory landscape – and the key technologies that will help you comply using secure storage and quick data recovery. Read Now In this Issue Cisco survey finds 20-somethings favor insecurity Advanced best practices for managing smartphones The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words Dot-XXX Domain Won't Clean Up the Web OpenDNS launches family protection Senate committee to investigate data retention by ISPs Congress Asks Apple to Explain its Privacy Policy Interesting Audience Data from the Symantec Government Symposium Microsoft, Where Is Your Privacy Dashboard? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Cisco survey finds 20-somethings favor insecurity Cisco this week released results of a security survey that explored the impact of social networking and the use of personal devices in the workplace. It found that employees are regularly looking for ways to circumvent company IT security policies to use unsupported devices and applications. Read More Advanced best practices for managing smartphones Last week's article provided a summary of best practices for the basic management of smartphones in your organization. Going a step or two beyond the basic management techniques, Fiberlink Communications now provides us with best practices for more advanced management of the ubiquitous mobile devices that have become more computer than phone. Read More The Devil Is In The Details: DHS Monitoring Web & "Wrong" Words Cyber-terrorists and the dreaded cyberwar has escalated to the point of the "feds" pulling the plug on the Internet in case of an emergency. Then DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that in the future there will be "increased" Internet monitoring of U.S. citizens due to the dangers of homegrown terrorism. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! Dot-XXX Domain Won't Clean Up the Web ICANN has approved XXX as a top-level domain. The adult entertainment industry will soon have its own glaringly obvious domain, but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean that dot-COM domains will suddenly be porn-free. Read More OpenDNS launches family protection OpenDNS has launched a home protection service Read More Senate committee to investigate data retention by ISPs A Senate Committee will launch an inquiry into the collection of online data by Government agencies and private companies, including Internet service providers (ISPs). Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Rethinking PCI Requirements When compliance validation activities are executed in house, company officials become fully liable for any omissions or errors. Using a third-party vendor can shift the risk away from corporate management. Learn how IBM can become your trusted partner for PCI compliance. Learn More Congress Asks Apple to Explain its Privacy Policy Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) are asking tough questions of Apple CEO Steve Jobs about recent changes to the company's privacy policy. The two congressmen sent a letter to Jobs on Thursday asking the company to explain its privacy changes and how they comply with user privacy safeguards built into Section 222 of the Federal Telecommunications Act. Read More Interesting Audience Data from the Symantec Government Symposium Earlier this week, I participated in the Symantec Government Symposium, an event dedicated to IT and security professionals in the U.S. Federal government. As part of her kickoff presentation, Symantec Federal GM, Gigi Schaum, asked for audience responses to three questions. Here are the questions and the interesting responses: 1. Has the state of cybersecurity improved over the last 12 months?... Read More Microsoft, Where Is Your Privacy Dashboard? If Microsoft would focus its scattered efforts, it might become a powerhouse to compete with Google's growing power and to give Apple a black-eye too. Microsoft has the masses, the user base, because, at least for now, most of the world runs on Windows. Because of that fact, Windows is the low hanging fruit and prime hacking target. Read More
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