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Blackpool Council rolls out high-capacity broadband network
Lancashire-based ISP The Networking People has won a £3.2 million contract with Blackpool Council to provide a high-capacity broadband network that will serve up to six North West local authorities, as well as 100 schools, libraries, business incubator sites and public buildings.
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Viewpoint: When it comes to enterprise security, is it better to focus on compliance or risk?
A CIO once quipped, "Security isn't hard, compliance is." And in fact many companies focus their security efforts on meeting compliance requirements. But if you are audit compliant, have you in fact addressed all of your risks, or are you just kidding yourself? Is it better to focus on the risks presuming that doing so will cover you off on the compliance side? Network World Editor in Chief put the question to two practitioners, both of whom come down on the side of risk.
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Move over SDN; startup looking to go where only Cisco, VMware tread
Software-defined network, software-defined data center ... and now software-defined fabric.
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Briggs Marine deploys private cloud for international operations
Maritime contractor Briggs Marine is migrating to a private enterprise cloud platform to help safeguard operations from outages, ensure remote data access to international teams and deliver IT flexibility.
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East Coast chooses O2 Unify for network infrastructure upgrade
Train operator East Coast has appointed O2 Unify to consolidate its IT and communications infrastructure in a deal said to be worth £2.6 million.
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Security firm Trustwave targeted by phishing campaign
Customers of security firm Trustwave are being targeted by a phishing campaign that masquerades as a PCI DSS compliance scan, the company has warned.
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PCI DSS: is the cure worse than the disease?
Complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is prohibitively expensive, and the cost of compliance bears very little relation to the cost of a breach, according to Dave Birch, director of IT consultancy Consult Hyperion.
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Wi-Fi Alliance to take over WiGig development and certification
The long courtship between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which promotes a fast wireless LAN technology that runs on very high frequencies, is set to end in marriage just a little too late for the International CES trade show next week.
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Speedy 8Gbit, 16Gbit SATA Express systems coming this year
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) Thursday announced that the ratification process has started for SATA Express, which standardises PCI Express (PCIe) as an interface for client storage.
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Researcher's proof-of-concept malware infects BIOS, network cards without trace
Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on the hard drive.
