Monday, 21 May 2012
In a month of major product launches - like EMC’s Symmetrix V-Max and Cisco’s Unified Computing System - VMware ups the ante with the industry's first cloud operating system. What are the enhancements to security in the cloud?
The rest of 2009 looks exciting for virtualization - because fo its money-saving capabilities as well as its transformative effect on the industry. Here are the 10 top trends in virtualization worth watching for.
Cisco has announced new additions to its portfolio that bolster the network security infrastructure and the delivery of cloud security services.
While it could save money, many firms should understand the security, privacy and legal issues when using cloud-based services.
Verizon Business is advancing IP networking to help improve application performance and security across an extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers and partners.
New services, hardware and software aim to improve the security of cloud computing environments, helping ensure the confidentiality of data and helping locking down applications from attack.
Security professionals are being pushed to quickly adopt cloud-based services, social networking and virtualization without a security strategy to address the risks.
The challenge for security teams is to safely integrate extended cloud capabilities into corporate policies and procedures.
Cloud computing offers many benefits by cutting costs and enabling a distributed workforce, but learning how the cloud computing infrastructure operates is essential to ensuring secure services. Diana Kelley and Char Sample offer a primer on cloud computing infrastructure security.
Enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration solutions are slowly emerging from the domain of early adopters to enter the mainstream. Anticipating this, Cisco Systems’ cloud-based collaboration strategy puts in place the application and the infrastructure components that will enable secure collaboration across firewalls.
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Less secure than you think 
This white paper examines the changing threat landscape, how the nature of security threats has evolved, and the potential financial impact across vertical markets and organizations of all sizes. This paper will explain why advanced targeted attacks have been extremely effective at breaking through traditional network security and enabling the massive data breaches and intellectual property thefts that are keeping CISOs awake at night.
Trusted Mobility Index
The mobile ecosystem of devices, services and networks is at a critical inflection point.While the mobile revolution is unleashing massive opportunities in both emerging and mature economies, it is also increasing in complexity and confusion. The reality is the lightning-fast adoption of powerful, smart devices is outpacing society’s ability to secure them. Today, trust in mobility hangs in the balance.
MasterCard tackles BYOD with strict conditions
More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work.
HID Global deploys a centralized, web-based IP access control solution at Fuxi Power Plant
Unable to meet the needs for real-time monitoring with its traditional patrol system, China's Fuxi Power Plant has deployed HID Global's VertX V2000.
