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	BlackBerry backup encryption broken by Russians A Russian company that specialises in cracking tools claims it has broken the password protection used to secure data backups from BlackBerry smartphones. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Websense Join SpeakUp – A Web Security Discussion SpeakUp is a new interactive Security forum with expert opinion and absolutely no product pitches - it's a terrific way to connect with your peers and discover how the latest trends and technologies are affecting your security. This professionally hosted forum allows you to voice your opinion, get answers and influence the debate. Visit www.websense.com/speakup to register today! In this Issue How Treasury, AT&T botched billion-dollar network upgrade Money mule arrests highlight banks' efforts to fight fraud Eight hot commercial space projects Cisco to Release a Virtual Security Appliance for VMWare Why to Celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month Despite recent busts, ZeuS Trojan will be around awhile Is the Security Appliance Going Virtual? WEBCAST: Cisco Ironport Systems Is Cloud Email Security Right for You? Many companies are shifting email applications and data into the cloud model—and yet not without concerns about security. To be sure, business-critical data must be protected. In this webcast, Cisco's senior manager for cloud security, Joel McFarland, addresses the concerns and offers strategies to take control of email security. Learn More How Treasury, AT&T botched billion-dollar network upgrade Three years ago, the U.S. Treasury Department awarded a billion-dollar network consolidation project to AT&T, which claimed to win the deal due to its superior "transition plan." Read More Money mule arrests highlight banks' efforts to fight fraud The indictments unveiled last week against dozens of people who allegedly helped loot millions of dollars from U.S. businesses via online corporate account takeovers highlights the struggle by financial firms to fight fraud. 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 Eight hot commercial space projects NASA budget money to help spark commercial space industry Read More Cisco to Release a Virtual Security Appliance for VMWare Cisco Nexus 1000v soon to add stateful firewall functionality to its list of virtual service offeringsAs corporations rapidly move to virtualize their datacenters using technology like VMWare, securing those datacenters becomes much harder. Along with virtualizing the servers, corporations are also using virtualized networking/switching technologies. This allows for the Virtual Machine to talk to another virtual machine purely across a virtual network without ever having to touch any physical network... Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Ironport Systems Is Cloud Email Security Right for You? Many companies are shifting email applications and data into the cloud model—and yet not without concerns about security. To be sure, business-critical data must be protected. In this webcast, Cisco's senior manager for cloud security, Joel McFarland, addresses the concerns and offers strategies to take control of email security. Learn More Why to Celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month It's that time of year again. The weather is turning cooler, football season has begun, Halloween is fast approaching. That can only mean one thing--it's National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Just in case you aren't really sure what the big deal is, or why you should care, here are five recent security threats that highlight why we need an entire month to raise awareness and promote better computer and network security. Read More Despite recent busts, ZeuS Trojan will be around awhile Despite high-profile busts in the U.S. , U.K. and Ukraine of cybercriminals using ZeuS malware to steal from online accounts, ZeuS will evolve and remain an effective theft tool for a long time, security experts say. Read More Is the Security Appliance Going Virtual? A look at the potential future of the Security Appliance.A few short weeks ago I had the privilege of attending Gestalt ITs Networking Tech Field Day. It became apparent very quickly that the topic of interest to all the vendors was that of Data Center Virtualization. Each vendor that we visited showed off their high end equipment and gave technical presentations on them. You could quickly get a feel for the fact that they all position themselves to take... Read More
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