To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses

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	To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses It appears some Cisco Systems customers have since taken steps to prevent NSA tampering. The company has shipped equipment to addresses that are unrelated to a customer, said John Stewart, Cisco's chief security and trust officer, during the Cisco Live conference in Melbourne. In theory, that makes it harder for the NSA to target an individual company and scoop up their package. But supply chains are tough to secure, Stewart said, and once a piece of equipment is handed from Cisco to DHL or FedEx, it's gone. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive BYOD and Beyond: How To Turn BYOD into Productivity One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn't just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they're there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. 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Learn how users have been able to: - Reduce regression testing time by 48% - Increase automation of business processes by 44% Learn More INSIDER School district gets an HP SDN makeover to address wireless growth, security problems Faced with exponential growth in wireless devices and an increasingly digital curriculum, Jeff Dietsche, Systems and Infrastructure Manager for the South Washington County Schools in Minnesota, decided his only hope was to deal with a single vendor and use SDN to streamline operations. Dietsche tells the tale to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. (Insider Story) Read More Akamai: Most Internet attacks in Q4 originated in China A majority of the Internet attack traffic in 2014's fourth quarter originated in China, followed by the U.S., according to cloud service provider Akamai. Read More NFV and SDNs will make up the cloud Carriers as we know it are about to change significantly by the unbundling of services and functionality of what's thought of as carriers and telcos. The bits and pieces of networking, already becoming rapidly redefined by Software Defined Networks (SDNs), have conceptual sockets connected to carriers' virtualized networking components. Read More WHITE PAPER: Level 3 Communications Secure Data Services: Breaking Down the Enterprise IT Silo This paper explores how NSPs can truly help their customers break down their silo mentality with an alternative approach to bundled services that is aligned to the core business interests of their customers. The benefits of this approach – to both NSP and customer – are also explored. Learn More F5 leverages LineRate to go lightweight for software defined IT environments A little over two years ago, application delivery controller market leader F5 Networks acquired LineRate Systems to jump into the software defined networking (SDN) game. Read More Bare-metal switches poised to take off in data centers Bare-metal switches that can be programmed like Linux servers aren't just for big Web companies anymore. They may show up in a lot more average enterprises in the next few years. Read More Top enterprise IT companies where people want to work Poachable, a Seattle startup that specializes in connecting passive job-seekers with companies looking to hire, says enterprise network and IT companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the most desirable places to work. But largely consumer-focused companies, like Google, Apple and Amazon, are even more attractive. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc How Other Organizations Achieve IT Agility Leading organizations actively seek ways to address the challenges of achieving IT agility and closing the Relevance Gap. Let's take a look at how two businesses accomplished the task. Learn more >> Net neutrality rules let FCC police future ISP conduct The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules allow the agency to police future network management practices and business models rolled out by broadband providers, raising concerns among critics that an activist commission will inject itself into ISP board rooms. Read More Not your father's computer science building College campuses across the U.S. are building news computer science facilities that encourage hands-on education and interdisciplinary research. Long, empty hallways are avoided. Labs are on display instead of tucked in basements. Circulation spaces become opportunities for students and professors to mingle and collaborate. Pictured is Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University. Read More Startup Rubrik goes all-in-one with backup appliance All-in-one boxes are hot in data centers, and the concept is starting to expand into backup and recovery. Read More
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