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White House programme targets IT jobs for service members
The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world.
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McAfee offers one-time passwords for single sign-on cloud service
McAfee Thursday announced it?s providing a one-time password function as part of its Cloud Single Sign On service for more securely provisioning and de-provisioning hundreds of cloud-based services for enterprise use.
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US government's use of deep packet inspection raises serious privacy questions
To protect the federal civilian agencies against cyberthreats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing to deploy a more powerful version of its EINSTEIN intrusion-detection system that?s supposed to detect attacks and malware, especially associated with e-mail. But since this version of EINSTEIN is acknowledged by DHS to be able to read electronic content, it?s raising privacy concerns.
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The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you
When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams.
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Rackspace, Brocade take on 'patent trolls'
Cloud computing company Rackspace has sued two companies it describes as 'patent trolls' for breach of contract, and asked a US court for a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe three patents owned by one of the companies, Parallel Iron.
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Malware-detecting 'sandboxing' technology no silver bullet
The security technology called "sandboxing" aims at detecting malware code by subjecting it to run in a computer-based system of one type of another to analyse it for behavior and traits indicative of malware.
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Fortinet to buy Coyote Point to merge security with application delivery
Network security appliance maker Fortinet will expand its offerings for application delivery by acquiring privately held Coyote Point Systems.
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Cisco adds app performance to branch routers
Cisco this week extended the software capabilities of its ISR branch routers with previously separate security and application performance features, including WAN optimisation.
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F5 looks beyond the network
F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than $1.3 billion since 2007, even in the face of the recent recession.
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US hackers target our our websites, China's Defence Ministry complains
Chinese military websites experienced a barrage of hacking probes originating in the US during 2012, the Chinese military has said in a statement designed to remind the world that it can also be a victim of cyberattacks.
