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	FTC wants "Do Not Track" feature among wide-ranging online privacy changes FTC lays down online privacy protection frameworkLet the arguments begin!  What should be done with the vast amounts of personal information available online? The Federal Trade Commission is trying to address that critical issue and today issued a wide-ranging, preliminary report on what it wants to see the online industry do to protect basic privacy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps How is your SIEM silo'd– what's missing? Inundated with logs, alert noise and admin tasks. Lack usability, coverage, context and results. AccelOps goes beyond SIEM for proactive monitoring, expedited incident analysis, report automation and compliance. Whether seeking or upgrading your SIEM, or exploring SOC/NOC convergence, experience AccelOps' difference with our 14-day trial download. In this Issue Is a next-generation firewall in your future? Are IT Vendors Getting a "Free Pass" On Cyber Security? U.S. tech lead at risk, says Obama's top scientist WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Top Secret! Keep Your E-Mail Private and Secure Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals Feds draw a bead on Russian behind Mega-D botnet What you should know about Next Generation Firewalls E-BOOK: Palo Alto Networks Get the "Next-Generation Firewalls for Dummies" Book This book provides an overview of next-gen firewalls. Get your copy to find out: How Enterprise 2.0 applications create new risks for your organization? Why traditional firewalls can't protect your network? How next-generation firewalls stand apart from other security solutions? Click to continue Is a next-generation firewall in your future? The traditional port-based enterprise firewall, now looking less like a guard and more like a pit stop for Internet applications racing in through the often open ports 80 and 443, is slowly losing out to a new generation of brawny, fast, intelligent firewalls. Read More Are IT Vendors Getting a "Free Pass" On Cyber Security? Many critical infrastructure organizations perform haphazard IT vendor security audits at bestBefore buying an old house, most people do a thorough home inspection to make sure that plumbing, heating, and electricity infrastructure is safe and stable. When purchasing a car for a new driver, many parents check a vehicle's crash test rating. These actions are simply common sense due diligence since we want to make sure that our homes and children are safe. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Data Protection 2.0: It's Not Just Names and Numbers Anymore Data Protection 2.0: It's Not Just Names and Numbers Anymore Meet this data protection challenge head on with a new way to categorize sensitive data that helps you reduce data breach risk and take more control of your most critical assets. Discover how. Read more! U.S. tech lead at risk, says Obama's top scientist Nobel Prize winner and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Tuesday bluntly warned that the U.S. is in danger of losing its leadership in the development and export of high technology products. Read More WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Another day, another quarter of a million confidential government documents released via WikiLeaks. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Addressing the Complexities of Remote Data Protection This white paper reviews the factors that can make data protection and recovery in remote offices a complicated problem and describes the range of technology options available, explaining the benefits and shortcomings of each in the context of remote offices. Read Now Top Secret! Keep Your E-Mail Private and Secure E-mail is one of the most widely used forms of communication today. Estimates from May 2009 suggest that around 250 billion--with a "B"--e-mails are sent every day. That equates to more than 2.8 million e-mail messages per second, and some of them are not even spam. Read More Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals By way of example, O'Connor said cyber criminals could use the Cloud to secretly store and distribute child abuse material for commercial purposes. Read More Feds draw a bead on Russian behind Mega-D botnet An Internet ring hawking counterfeit male-enhancement remedies, phony Rolexes and generic pills with false FDA approval has led the FBI to a Russian believed to be behind the Mega-D botnet. Read More What you should know about Next Generation Firewalls So what is the so-called Next Generation Firewall? Read More
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