NitroSecurity has extended its critical infrastructure Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) capabilities to incorporate and analyze smart grid data, helping utilities identify potential security issues in hundreds of thousands of vulnerable home and business endpoints and their supporting systems in the
electrical grid.
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NitroSecurity SIEM Now Incorporates Smart Grid Data
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The Case For VSAs: My Doctor’s Upgrade
Until recently, I’ve viewed VSAs (virtual storage appliances) as creatures of the lab, where I’m constantly building, and tearing down, configurations to test one product or another. I’ve saved many hours, and countless thousands of dollars, by spinning up as many as a dozen virtual iSCSI disk arrays when the need has arisen. I’ve started taking them more seriously as I plan my doctor friend’s upgrade from a Windows 2003 infrastructure to the promised land of virtual servers.
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Cisco To Post Retail PCI Primer
Cisco announced it will put online the second generation of its retail PCI solutions that have been reviewed by a PCI Qualified Security Assessor. Due out at the end of the month, the validated Cisco PCI Solution for Retail 2.0 is intended to provide retailers with a simpler way to become compliant, or incorporate modular elements on an as-needed basis.
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Follow Amazon Example In User Account Management
Organizations that manage sensitive customer information have largely done their users a disservice by using links in emails. While they are trying to be helpful by providing links, the critical side effect is that users get used to clicking on them and that is one way of facilitating phishing.
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Private Vs. Public – It’s About The Services
So you’ve chosen to implement a private cloud, and you based that decision on sound rationalizations backed by thorough research–reasons like cost, service portability, legacy infrastructure investment, security and compliance. Heck, maybe you just made the decision based on an overreaction to recent cloud outage news from major providers. Either way, private cloud it is, and your decision on cloud type is done, right? Wrong. There’s a lot more to think about, and if you choose private cloud with an all-or-nothing strategy, you’re likely missing out.
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RADIUS Is The Secure WLAN’s Best Friend
When the topic of high-quality wireless networking comes up, its trendy to bandy about notions of blazing throughput and Star Trek-sounding features like “beam forming” and “band steering.” But before a client gets to benefit from the growing magic built into the contemporary wireless network, it probably needs to be scrutinized under the lens of “triple A”: authentication, authorization and accounting. This is where the often unsung hero called RADIUS comes in.
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IBM’s Century Of Achievement And The Next 100 Years
IBM is proudly celebrating its 100th year of existence and with good reason. Set aside any factional differences or carping about the warts that any organization has over its lifetime, and take into account the bigger picture. In that larger perspective, all of us owe IBM a debt of gratitude, not only for what it has done for us individually, but what it is likely to do for us even if we do not regard ourselves as IBM customers.
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Fluke Networks Builds A Tablet For IT
Tablets invading the workplace has mainly been seen as a problem for IT. But what about a tablet designed for IT, and specifically for network management? That’s the idea behind Fluke Network’s OptiView XG, a management tablet loaded with Fluke Network’s network analysis and testing tools and with the hardware needed to monitor any wired or wireless network.
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Vint Cerf’s Internet Safety
At the Internet Society INET conference, there was wide-ranging discussion on a variety of topics, from Net neutrality to privacy. A highlight was Vint Cerf’s keynote in the afternoon. He focused on the importance of safety mechanisms for those using the Internet–safety in terms of being protected from abusive behavior and safety in terms of the ability to speak freely and, where and when needed, remain anonymous. These are big issues in the international theater.
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