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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Automated Security Remediation On The Rise

Carrier IQ: A privacy tempest in your pants pocket | DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program

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Automated Security Remediation On The Rise
APTs and other types of sophisticated attacks are undoubtedly changing information security processes, technologies, and skills, but ESG found another interesting transition in progress: Given the volume, sophistication, and surreptitious nature of APTs, large organizations are apparently willing to adopt more automated security technologies as a means for attack remediation. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Changing Role of IT
This white paper analyzes research conducted by IDG Research Services about the changing role of IT: what's driving the change, what skill-sets will be more valued and what should forward-looking IT executives consider as IT shifts increasingly towards an IT supply chain model. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: Avaya

New World Networking Architecture
Traditional, general purpose network architectures are not designed to address cost-effectively this new world of unified communications. Avaya Fit for Purpose infrastructure meets the challenge combining performance on the most demanding real-time applications with compelling economics. Learn More

Carrier IQ: A privacy tempest in your pants pocket
Privacy and cyber law experts weigh in on the privacy implications surrounding the Carrier IQ mobile diagnostic software. Read More

DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for a few good smartphone application developers to make programs that will make sensor systems in everything from unmanned aircraft to cameras more sophisticated and intelligent. Read More

Sourcefire shipping its first two app-aware, next-gen firewalls
Sourcefire Monday said it expects to begin shipping its first two next-generation firewall appliances later this month, entering an increasingly crowded market. Read More


WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies

CISO in the Know - Mitigating Modern Attacks
This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more.

Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue
Vint Cerf, widely considered one of the inventors of the Internet, recently said that Internet governance is one of the most important issues in the high-tech world. Read More

Raytheon acquires cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks
Defense and aerospace systems vendor Raytheon has acquired cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks in an effort to add to Raytheon's capabilities to defend against sophisticated threats facing customers in the intelligence, defense and commercial sectors, the companies announced Monday. Read More

India's censors have asked the impossible of Facebook, Google
How exactly does a representative of an American company tell a government official from a foreign country that he must be out of his mind? Diplomatically, one would presume. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Sybase

Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3
This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now.

RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher
The attack that hacked RSA Security's network earlier this year succeeded because the company failed to take a basic security precaution, a researcher said today. Read More

DARPA awards $50,000 mystery shredded document prize
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today said it took 33 days and 9,000 teams to solve its Shredder Challenge, but one team has prevailed: The 'All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.' team won the $50,000 prize. Read More

Cell Phone "butt-calling" a pain in the arse for police
A report out of Chicago today says inadvertent dialing by one's cellphone to 911 emergency services is becoming a serious safety problem. According to a CBS report officials in Evanston, Ill say that nearly 20% of the wireless calls they get each month are "unintentional" or "abandoned" calls; and they believe the vast majority of those accidental cell phone calls are butt dials. Read More



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