Security chiefs at home: No such thing as 'off duty'

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	Security chiefs at home: No such thing as 'off duty' CSOs are paid to be vigilant (some might say paranoid), so how can that mind-set not impact their personal affairs, particularly when it comes to traveling, securing personal information, protecting belongings and raising kids? To find out, we spoke with five security chiefs about how their profession influences them outside of the office. Their precautions may occasionally seem extreme, but take heed -- even these experts aren't always immune to credit card fraud or identity theft. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber Cabling As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever before to assure the end-user that the installation was done properly and that the cabling will support Local Area Networks (LAN) into the future. Read now! 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Read More Dell ups offer for 3PAR to $1.6B, tops HP The bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard for virtualized storage vendor 3PAR continued on Thursday, with Dell increasing its bid to US$24.30 per share, or about $1.6 billion. Read More Microsoft's big Bing theory targets Google It's time to wait and see whether the search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo can make a dent in Google's huge lead over its top opponents. Read More The 12 Best BlackBerry Apps Hunting for the best BlackBerry apps? Try the productivity tools, utilities, and entertainment titles we've collected here. For multiplatform apps, or titles exclusive to Android or iPhone, see the other articles in this package. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Top 3 Best Practices for Virtualization Management Get virtualization right and make the most of your investments in the technology. Download this whitepaper today and examine the top 3 best practices for virtual infrastructure management. Read now! LANdesk seeks fresh start under new owner LANdesk has been sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Read More Ring! It's Gmail's new voice feature calling Google announced Wednesday it is offering the ability to make phone calls over the Internet via its popular Gmail service. Read More Microsoft leaks IE9 look, reveals 'Chromifying' Microsoft's Russian Web site today revealed details about the new Internet Explorer 9 user interface, touting new features such as quick-release tabs and a Chrome-like address/search bar. Read More Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard The future of Red Hat, revealed! Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Simple Ways to Get the Most from Your Blade Environment This technical brief describes the architecture and the implementation of major technologies in the HP Integrity Servers c-Class server blades. The HP Integrity server blades architecture opens a chapter in server scalability by using a common base 2S (two socket) base blade to build four and eight socket systems. Read Now Brocade suit alleges A10 copied Foundry Brocade Communications claims in a suit filed earlier this month that the founder of A10 Networks improperly used trade secrets and recruited top employees in order to build application delivery products that competed with those offered by Brocade. Read More IPv6 is being deployed but not in the expected places IPv6 exists for more than 15 years and it is rumored to be deployed extensively in Asia and especially in Japan and China with Africa being the last continent to deploy IPv6. Another place where there should be a lot of deployments is of course in the USA with the US Government IPv6 mandates. Read More The 13 things you should know before going cloud There's a lot of hype about cloud computing but not as much clarity into exactly how to adopt cloud computing for your particular environment or specifically to address all the security "what ifs" the technology raises. A group called the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is trying to provide that insight. Read More Facebook to pull IE6 plug for Chat Facebook today announced that chat support for Microsoft's IE6 browser will be dropped on Sept. 15. Read More
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