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NSA Chief: Don't Dump Essential Security Tools
Gen. Keith Alexander defends National Security Agency practices, argues for advances in cybersecurity cooperation.
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- Cisco Launches Security Services Division
- Carriers Ramp Up Router And Switch Spending
- Cybercriminals Expand DDOS Extortion Demands
- Strike Back If China Steals IP, Companies Told
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Architectures
University Taps Dark Fiber for Online Academics, Healthcare
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center turns to a new network architecture and dark fiber to support the academic and healthcare needs of dozens of regional campuses and clinics.
Reviews & Workshops
Mobile Biometrics: The Next Phase of Enterprise Authentication?
Smartphones and tablets equipped with fingerprint readers or other biometric hardware have the potential to drive greater adoption of biometric authentication in the enterprise—if we can get the hardware, software and business processes right.
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Blogs
WAN Encryption Tops the Agenda After NSA Revelations
September 24, 2013 11:00 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
Whatever trust customers had in the security of WAN connections from service providers is gone. Encrypt now, and consider less-expensive Internet connections instead.
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Readers Respond: F5 Firewall Challenges Cisco, Check Point
February 06, 2013 05:38 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
Network Computing readers weighed in on F5’s entry into the firewall market and how its strategy of integrating firewall software into its load-balancing platform might play out with customers and competitors.
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Toward More Reliable Wireless With AirMagnet Enterprise 10
February 27, 2012 04:40 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
If the phone isn't ringing, then your wireless users must not be feeling any pain, right? That can be a dangerous assumption in large, complicated wireless networks. Some issues may not be crystallized enough to raise your clients' ire, but the fact remains that performance is degraded. AirMagnet's latest Enterprise version wants to make hard-to-find problems more obvious even as the WLAN gets ever more complex.
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Riverbed's Granite Virtualizes Branch Office Storage
February 10, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately, many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed's new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed's calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
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Red Lambda: Security Revolution Or Just Evolution?
November 14, 2011 07:00 AM
Posted by David Hill
Security statistics are depressing. The bad guys seem to be overwhelming the good guys, even when the good guys are well-known security vendors. So when an emerging company, such as Red Lambda, claims to have software that significantly improves the odds for the good guys, you need to pay close attention.
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Certificate Authority Compromises Are Global In Reach
September 09, 2011 01:48 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto
There has already been a lot written about the compromise at DigiNotar, GlobalSign and Comodo. One day we will look at the summer of 2011 as the time when the PKI collapsed. That's not hyperbole. The problems with certificate authorities and the inherent weakness they present have been known for years--a fact we alluded to as far back as 1997. Browsers accept certificates as trusted in that they have the signing CA certificate in their local browser store. Browsers do not check that a particular CA is authorized to actually issue a particular server certificate. The trust is universal. That is why the attacks on DigiNotar, GlobalSign and Comodo are so serious and have global impact.
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