Cisco’s internal security team fights to corral BYOD, malware and Wild West environment

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	Cisco's internal security team fights to corral BYOD, malware and Wild West environment Many organizations have a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) that swoops into action to battle malware outbreaks, other types of cyberattacks and possible insider threats, and at networking giant Cisco, that CSIRT team is made up of about 60 people trying to protect a business with about 75,000 employees. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue Microsoft Surface guest stars on TV's "Suburgatory" -- honest Syrian Internet blackout: Charts show dramatic traffic dropoff Microsoft tweaks, then silences IE haters Cisco acquires network planning company for $141M Microsoft: Windows 8 adoption will take a while Eucalyptus: We're the Amazon of private cloud companies An ode to Otellini's unprecedented 40 years at one company NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud INSIDER The race toward compliance is 'not optimal' New Linux smartphone OS 'Sailfish' passes the test It's time for network managers to do things the easy way Samsung will issue firmware fix for printer security flaw on Friday 14 of the most useful Linux websites WHITE PAPER: Dell SonicWall Why Protection and Performance Matters Outdated firewalls can pose serious security risks and simply adding malware protection inhibits performance. Dell SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls overcome these limitations with multi-core architecture and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection for unrivaled protection and performance. Read Now! Microsoft Surface guest stars on TV's "Suburgatory" -- honest Ham-fisted product placement casts Surface tablet as love interest in ABC TV sit-com Read More Syrian Internet blackout: Charts show dramatic traffic dropoff Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. Read More Microsoft tweaks, then silences IE haters Yes, I will admit that I still use Internet Explorer. I use it whenever something on my machine isn't working right and I want to find out if it's the fault of my primary browser, Google Chrome, or not. So I try it with IE. But don't get me wrong, I am no IE hater or anything. Certainly nothing like the guy in Microsoft's new IE 10 video: "Do you know this guy?" Read More Cisco acquires network planning company for $141M Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Cariden Technologies, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of network planning, design and traffic management software for service providers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Standards-Based Platforms are Transforming IT More and more businesses are saving time and money by transforming proprietary, siloed computer environments for resource-intensive workloads into consolidated IT infrastructures built on industry standards and open systems. Learn More Microsoft: Windows 8 adoption will take a while Business adoption of Windows 8 won't happen overnight and will likely involve a gradual phasing in alongside Windows 7 rather than a wholesale enterprise-wide swap-out of one operating system for the other, according to Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Windows. Read More Eucalyptus: We're the Amazon of private cloud companies Late last year Daniel Bozeman, a software engineer at wireless analytics firm Mosaik Solutions, wanted to build a private cloud. The company is a heavy user of Amazon Web Services public cloud resources, and Bozeman had a vision of creating a system that would allow him to seamlessly run workloads either in the company's own data center, or in Amazon's public cloud. Read More An ode to Otellini's unprecedented 40 years at one company Just days before Thanksgiving, Intel investors got a major dose of turkey in the form of Paul Otellini's sudden announcement that he would retire, effective May 2013. This was a shocker because Intel was always known for long-planned, orderly transitions of power, and Otellini has no clear successor. PSO, as Intel staff call him, started with the firm right out of UC Berkeley in 1974 on completion... Read More NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Forrester: Virtualization and the Mobile Workspace How will you meet evolving security requirements? Discover IT approaches to BYOD and other workspace challenges in a Forrester study that examines policy management, desktop virtualization and mobility solutions. Read Now INSIDER The race toward compliance is 'not optimal' More security managers find themselves running compliance programs rather than performing security and risk management. Read More New Linux smartphone OS 'Sailfish' passes the test I was a huge, huge fan of Maemo – a Debian-based Linux distro focused on phones, such as the amazing Nokia N900 (the old Linux-powered one with a keyboard... you know, the one that Nokia killed off because they hate awesome things). In fact, I still have that very phone sitting right next to my shiny new Samsung Galaxy S3. And, despite being several years old, the N900 still is my favorite. And the... Read More It's time for network managers to do things the easy way There may be nothing more mystical or intimidating in corporate IT than the Cisco CLI used to configure and manage the company's switches and routers. Those who have mastered it use a combination of shortcuts, homegrown tools, scripts and other techniques to complete even the simplest of tasks. Those who haven't struggle for hours looking through Cisco Press books and scouring Cisco's support... Read More Samsung will issue firmware fix for printer security flaw on Friday Samsung Electronics will close a security hole in the firmware of some of its printers by issuing an update on Friday, and said they could be protected by disabling SNMP. Read More 14 of the most useful Linux websites Looking to learn more about open source and free software? You can't go far wrong with our list of sites Read More
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