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	Don't dismiss community college grads with degrees in information assurance The CAE2Y program was established to meet the needs of cybersecurity professionals – not all of whom have baccalaureates and advanced degrees. Zdravkovich emphasized that our society needs all dimensions of diversity in the cybersecurity field. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! In this Issue Tutorial: Cisco Routers Add Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe NASA, DARPA looking for your input for futuristic space exploration dialogue U.S. questioned China about Change.org attack Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate security challenge Bill proposed to regulate collection, use of GPA tracking data Can virtual machine and cloud systems secure PCI payment card data? Energy Dept. spends $2B to double US concentrated solar power capacity Spear phishers sharpen skills, craft 'incredible' attacks, say experts Get your money for nothing, get your certs for free 10 iPhone passcodes to pass on Regaining perspective on security problems Windows XP, Vista AutoRun update reduces malware infections by 82% WEBCAST: Cymphonix Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today! Tutorial: Cisco Routers Add Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe Cisco launched this feature to the market last month at Interop. In a nutshell, this IOS feature provides intelligent, identity aware, traffic redirection to the Cisco ScanSafe web security cloud offering. ScanSafe provides the following web security features as a cloud service: URL Filtering Scanlets analyze all elements of a web request including HTML, JavaScript, Flash and even obfuscated... Read More NASA, DARPA looking for your input for futuristic space exploration dialogue DARPA and NASA Ames Research Center today said they are soliciting abstracts, papers, topics and members for discussion panels, to be part of the 100 Year Starship Study Symposium to be held in Orlando, Fla.,  from September 30 through October 2, 2011. Read More U.S. questioned China about Change.org attack The U.S. State Department questioned the Chinese government about a cyberattack that had temporarily shutdown Change.org after the site held a petition urging Chinese authorities to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. Read More Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate security challenge Adapting security and management for the new generation of mobile devices -- everything from the Apple iPhone and iPad to Google Android devices to name a few -- is turning out to be a huge corporate challenge. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Providing Security and Acceleration for Remote Users Delivering applications to remote users is a significant undertaking. Applications need to be available, and they must be delivered securely and quickly. Through a range of products, F5 has solved the security plus acceleration challenge for remote users with BIG-IP Edge Gateway and BIG-IP APM. Read More! Bill proposed to regulate collection, use of GPA tracking data Two lawmakers today proposed a bipartisan bill that would regulate how law enforcement agencies and companies can access and use geo-location data gathered from cell phones, tablets and other mobile devices. Read More Can virtual machine and cloud systems secure PCI payment card data? Can sensitive payment card data be processed and held in virtual-machine (VM) systems or cloud-computing environments? Read More Energy Dept. spends $2B to double US concentrated solar power capacity The US Department of Energy today said it was conditionally committing $2 billion to develop two concentrating solar power projects that it says will offer 500 megawatts of power combined, effectively doubling the nation's currently installed capacity of that type of power. Read More Spear phishers sharpen skills, craft 'incredible' attacks, say experts Recent break-ins at high-profile targets like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demonstrate just how proficient hackers have become at 'spear phishing,' researchers said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Manageable Application Security Investments in security solutions have to provide a clear value, which equals additional time spent collecting and documenting proof of this value. The latest version of F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager(tm) (ASM), v10.1, addresses information overload and the need for agility in implementation. Learn more! Get your money for nothing, get your certs for free A new SSL certificate authority squeezes so much overhead out of supplying certs that it plans to give them away starting next month and to continue at least through the end of the year. Read More 10 iPhone passcodes to pass on Attention iPhone users: You're not fooling anyone if you're using 1234, 0000, 2580, 1111, 5555, 5683, 0852, 2222, 1212, 1998 as your smartphone passcode. Read More Regaining perspective on security problems With all the bad security news that has come out over the last few months, you might think the sky is falling. Once a story catches people's attention, we start seeing it everywhere, kind of like noticing a lot of blue cars after you just bought a blue car. The problem with all this is that it distorts the conversation and we may fail to notice the really important security lessons that can be learned: Read More Windows XP, Vista AutoRun update reduces malware infections by 82% Microsoft today credited a February security update for lowering AutoRun-abusing malware infection rates on Windows XP and Vista by as much as 82% since the start of the year. Read More
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