BT has signed a deal with British American Tobacco (BAT) to manage the company’s wide area network (WAN) across the globe. A high-performance IP network will be deployed by BT to enable BAT to manage and prioritise its traffic ...
Tags: BT, wide area network, IP network, network security
HP has announced a range of new products with built-in software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities, placing a huge bet on the emerging technology. The company claimed that while other vendors have embraced SDN – which offers ...
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US President Barack Obama should strongly consider issuing an executive to help secure computer networks from attack, says former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt. The advice comes as a Senate cyber security bill remains ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
Tags: Anonymous, Computer Products, Government Websites, Julian Assange
HP has unveiled new networking software to help with moving data in cloud environments. The Ethernet Virtual Interconnect [EVI] solution is designed to enable up to eight datacentres to have more reliable connections between one another ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products, Software, Moving Virtual Machines
Network security is still as necessary as it was 15 years ago when the Black Hat Conference was first beginning. Sure the players have changed and the sophistication, but it is a classic good vs. evil scenario still. A panel of experts at ...
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Many articles have been written about the pros and cons of cloud security, however, CloudAccess CEO Kevin Nikkhoo articulated the overarching benefits of this changing paradigm during his guest appearance on the popular podcast program "The ...
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The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has released a new version of its wireless network security visualization tool, MeerCAT Pro Version 4.0. NORTHPORT, NY, August 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MeerCAT, a visualization tool ...
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IT security professionals need to transform the profession if they are to persuade business they are doing a good job, according to Mark Brown, director of information security at Ernst & Young. “Most organisations think information ...
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A hotel chain in the UK has taken CounterACT network access control for its systems from Forecast for endpoint compliance to PCI requirements Travelodge, a UK budget hotel company, has selected ForeScout CounterACT NAC-as-a-Service ...
Tags: Network Access, hotel chain, network access control, budget hotel company
Police have arrested a 41-year-old man in connection with a cyber attack on websites connected to home secretary Theresa May. He was arrested in Stoke-on-Trent for questioning under the Serious Crime Act on suspicion of assisting or ...
Tags: DDoS, Theresa May, website, Home Office website
Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
Tags: distributed-denial-of-service, cyber attacks, DDoS attacks
With cybercrime revealed to cost Scottish businesses an estimated 5bn academics are urging firms to ensure IT staff have the right skills to overcome new and emerging threats. To enable them to do that, Edinburgh Napier University is ...
Tags: cybercrime, IT staf, IT industry, cyber security
CoSoSys, Developer of Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Device Control, Mobile Device Management and Portable Storage Encryption Solutions announces today that it has signed a strategic distribution partnership agreement with LG N-Sys, leader ...
Blue Coat has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire network security company Crossbeam Systems. The acquisition brings together two market leaders that deliver complementary technologies to scale and secure the ...