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 In this Issue Carrier IQ: A privacy tempest in your pants pocket DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program Sourcefire shipping its first two app-aware, next-gen firewalls Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue Raytheon acquires cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks India's censors have asked the impossible of Facebook, Google RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher DARPA awards $50,000 mystery shredded document prize Cell Phone "butt-calling" a pain in the arse for police 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
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cornell professor: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' Gartner predictions for 2012 10 most powerful cloud companies Cracking ND5 ... with Google?! Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Dec. 2 2011's biggest security snafus Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year How stupid can cell carriers be? Really stupid Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape
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