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USB Thumb Drives
USB Thumb Drives Removable devices are now the number one means of propagating malware. If your clients were to find a thumb drive in the parking lot, their impulse likely would be to plug it in and see what’s on there. But that’s a recipe for trouble. Garbage Can Good ol’ fashioned dumpster diving hasn’t…
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Worldwide Breach Costs
Worldwide Breach Costs The average cost of a data breach globally stood at $3.43 million last year, the equivalent of $142 per compromised customer record. Average U.S. Breach Costs Per Record the Highest Average Breach Costs Per Record By Country:Australia: $114France: $119Germany: $177UK: $98U.S.: $204 U.S. Total Breach Costs Also the Highest Average Total Breach…
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Virtualization Security Still Not Up to Par
Enterprise adoption of virtualization is continuing its upward trend. But what about security? According to Prism Microsystems, organizations are slacking when it comes to protecting virtualized environments. A survey of 302 IT managers, security pros, auditors and administrators about their virtual deployments paints a picture of a landscape where the hypervisor is unprotected and separation…
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Channel Insider’s Guide to Cisco’s and HP’s Dueling Channel Partner Events
HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell HP’s channel leadership promised profitability, less complexity, better products and sales support in the increasingly tense battle for dominance against rivals in networking, data centers, PCs and services. Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation Cisco Systems told channel partners at its partner summit in San…
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Seeing Too Much
Seeing Too Much 87 percent of respondents say that individuals have too much access to information resources that are not pertinent to their job description Not Fast Enough on Changes 72 percent say they can’t quickly respond to changes in employee access requirements. Falling Behind 52 percent say they can’t keep pace with the number…
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Netgear Launches Value-Priced Gigabit Firewall
Netgear, a provider of networking solutions, announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308), a business-focused firewall that provides in excess of 1G bps performance for under $500, which translates to $0.50 per M bps. As the speed of WAN connections rise, and users turn to virtualization and cloud computing services, Netgear said…
