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  • Securing your hybrid cloud

    The debate over public cloud versus private cloud continues to rage within the IT industry. As most organisations take an ad-hoc, evolutionary approach to new technologies, the environment over the next five years is likely to be a mixture of the two.

  • Is your business data safe in the cloud?

    It's scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they're all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.

  • Intrusion prevention is losing steam in a virtual machine world

    Intrusion-prevention system (IPS) vendors have not found it easy to recast their appliances for use in the virtual-machine (VM) environment. But now McAfee and Sourcefire claim to have overcome some hurdles, at least with VMware's VM.

  • Companies rush to launch new 802.11n management tools

    There's a sea-change in IT managers' approaches to planning for wireless networks as the faster 802.11n networks mean that they're increasingly complex to manage. And that's before taking security into account.

  • Cisco makes a bid for practical WLANs

    Cisco's big WLAN announcement isn't about the radio technology. It's about making it easier to get applications running.

  • Is 3Com a safe bet going forward?

    3Com's projected spin-off of TippingPoint has led some to wonder at the potential implications of the move for customers. But will the sell-off bring benefits to users and the two companies?

  • NAC needs a single policy

    The future of network access control pits endpoints against the network.

  • Is it time to kill off Cisco's fat APs?

    If you are using Cisco's legacy Wi-Fi, watch out. Support is draining away, and the new features are coming to the thin AP world.

  • Sticking up for Intrusion Prevention Systems

    Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems might not be dead after all, says the NSS Group.

  • The firewall is dead, long live the firewall

    Protecting your network is getting more complex as new attacks appear, which means more boxes are needed to defend against them, says Paul DiBernardi of Secure Computing.





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