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	Cisco tops in IPS: survey Cisco is the "top dog" in a recent customer survey of the leading Intrusion Prevention System vendors conducted by Infonetics Research. The June survey queried IPS buyers at 105 US and Canadian companies with at least 100 employees. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs The Wild, Wild Web: How to Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Mozilla hikes Firefox bug bounties to $3K Safety a big target in letting unmanned aircraft in national airspace Air Force streamlines cybersecurity hiring for 680 open positions White House meeting aimed to assert cybersecurity leadership Gain the upper hand on governance and compliance with SaaS-based SecureGRC Visa moves to reduce payment card data in retail systems DNS gains added measure of security starting today Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers Researchers: Password crack could affect millions WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminat This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Read Now. Mozilla hikes Firefox bug bounties to $3K Mozilla on Thursday boosted bug bounty payments six-fold by increasing the standard cash award to $3,000. Read More Safety a big target in letting unmanned aircraft in national airspace There is a push by a variety of proponents to give unmanned aircraft more free reign in the nation's airspace but safety is a Read More Air Force streamlines cybersecurity hiring for 680 open positions The Air Force today said its managers hiring civilian federal employees for certain cybersecurity openings can use a streamlined method to rapidly fill more than 680 positions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel How to Get Started with Unified Communications Get past the hodgepodge of legacy phone systems or decentralized server-based architectures and eliminate telecommunications burdens. See why ShoreTel beats every other competitor for customer satisfaction six years in a row. Read now! White House meeting aimed to assert cybersecurity leadership The White House meeting on cybersecurity issues held on Wednesday appears to have been as much about assessing progress on the Presidents cybersecurity agenda as it was on showing executive office leadership on the issue. Read More Gain the upper hand on governance and compliance with SaaS-based SecureGRC Most of the governance, risk and compliance automation tools on the market are aimed at large enterprises with complex environments and deep resources. But smaller companies need governance and must meet compliance mandates, too. Now these companies have the option of a SaaS-based GRC solution that comes with a low subscription rate rather than a high purchase price. Read More Visa moves to reduce payment card data in retail systems A new payment card security initiative launched by Visa Inc. Wednesday could eliminate the need for retailers and other organizations to store full, 16-digit credit and debit card numbers on their systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 345 IT Executives Interviewed This white paper details extensive research on the challenges associated with application delivery and managing application performance. Analyst and consulting firm, Kubernan, interviewed 345 IT pros. Their responses and Kubernan's analysis will help you to proactively resolve application delivery and performance issues. Read now! DNS gains added measure of security starting today The 13 globally distributed server clusters -- known within Internet engineering circles as the Root Zone – will begin cryptographically signing DNS look-ups today. Read More Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers Efforts by the U.S. government to better identify cyberattackers will likely lead to violations of Internet users' privacy and anonymity, and technological means to attribute the source of the attacks may be inaccurate, privacy and cybersecurity experts said Thursday. Read More Researchers: Password crack could affect millions A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference. Read More
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