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	Cisco VoIP phones part of security weakness demo Cisco reaching out to AusCERT 2011 conference and speakers, Microsoft included in VoIP security weakness demo Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Mythbuster on Deploying Virtualization Technology When it comes to creating a private cloud, server virtualization is only one piece in the puzzle. Discover the missing pieces and assess your readiness to delivering cloud computing in a new whitepaper. This paper, from Forrester and Brocade, reveals where to invest your IT budget in order to achieve a private cloud. Learn more! In this Issue Securing Google Apps: A CIO Q&A Trust, respect and personal datastores Opening the door doesn't mean giving away the keys Thanks to ID thieves, your child may have more debt than you Windows scareware fakes impending drive disaster The CEO and his hardware token: A lesson learned Experts: Small firms can take steps to improve cybersecurity Top 5 things to do before buying more security technology Facebook Combats Spam, Clickjacking With Four New Features Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why Do-not-track me! Windows 7's malware infection rate climbs, XP's falls WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Answers to Tough Questions about SaaS When it comes to Software as a Service, opportunities abound for improved and simplified IT Service Management. With solutions like BMC Remedy OnDemand, organizations can cut costs, advance ITSM and simplify upgrades. If you're considering the move to SaaS, read this list of common questions. Learn More Today! Securing Google Apps: A CIO Q&A Boston-based Bay Cove Human Services is a non-profit organization that offers assistance and service to 4,000 people and families in Massachusetts. CIO Hilary Croach has several technology challenges to contend with. For starters, the agency has its hands in a number of service areas, including helping individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, and those who need support with aging. With about 140 locations around Eastern Massachusetts, Bay Cove's employees and IT operations are scattered. Read More Trust, respect and personal datastores On the final day of last week's European Identity Conference (EIC) I sat in on a workshop/presentation of the new Respect Trust Framework, which is being billed as a new approach to giving individuals control over their personal data shared over the Internet and mobile phone networks. Read More Opening the door doesn't mean giving away the keys This is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion about.  To state the thesis directly, everyone wants DBAs to have an open-door policy when it comes to their processes.  Of course to them, having an open-door means giving them the keys so they can look around for themselves.  And I understand their need to know what's going on with their app. Read More Thanks to ID thieves, your child may have more debt than you Did you know that while you may still be considering a name for your precious bundle of joy, someone may have already stolen your unborn babies identity and racked up thousands in debt? Thanks to software which predicts social security numbers, identity thieves can steal a baby's social security number before the child is even born. In fact, if you have or will have any children who were born before... Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Windows scareware fakes impending drive disaster Scammers are trying to trick Windows users into paying to fix bogus hard drive errors that have apparently erased important files, a researcher said today. Read More The CEO and his hardware token: A lesson learned Let me tell you a story. It has everything a gripping tale needs – conflict, a power struggle and a gripping climax. Best of all, it's loosely based on true accounts – could this be your story? Read More Experts: Small firms can take steps to improve cybersecurity Small businesses can protect themselves against cyber threats, security experts say. Read More Top 5 things to do before buying more security technology Las Vegas --Throwing more technology at security threats as they crop up is not the best way to go if the goal is to protect the most valuable data at the best price, attendees at Interop were told this week. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! Facebook Combats Spam, Clickjacking With Four New Features One day after Symantec uncovered an alleged privacy breach, Facebook released four new features to its security suite, unrelated to the discovery. Read More Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why When technology manager Lincoln Cannon wants to give his company's employees and business partners controlled access to various internal resources or cloud-based services the company uses, he goes to one cloud-based single sign-on security service to assign access privileges. Read More Do-not-track me! In just one week, privacy advocates have seen two major proposals to promote consumer privacy on the Internet. In California, SB-761, a "Do-Not-Track" bill regulating tracking cookies, passed through committee clearing a major hurdle to adoption. Simultaneously, Sen Rockefeller introduced a very similar bill in the US Senate. Both bills would require companies to honor a "Do-Not-Track" preference set by consumers, usually as a browser setting. The bills represent a significant step forward in online privacy and should be strongly supported by voters. Read More Windows 7's malware infection rate climbs, XP's falls Data released today by Microsoft showed that Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by more than 30% during the second half of 2010, even as the infection rate of the 10-year-old Windows XP fell by more than 20%. Read More
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