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CA Puts Focus on Cloud to Enable Business Services
Looking to help IT decision makers with the tools to get the most out of the leading edge infrastructure today, CA put the focus on CA Cloud 360 this week at CA World. At the center of its cloud plans, CA’s Cloud 360 lets IT analyze service-level performance and manage SLAs, survey and analyze their…
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Small Businesses Lack Adequate Internet Security: Symantec
Although awareness is high, small to midsize businesses don’t consider themselves targets of cyber-attacks, according to findings of Symantec’s 2011 SMB Threat Awareness Poll. As a result, they are not implementing the proper safeguards to protect their information. The SMB Threat Awareness Poll examined the awareness levels of SMBs regarding the dangers of security threats,…
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Security VAR Opportunity Application Delivery Controllers
Security VAR Opportunity Application Delivery Controllers 42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer Denial of Service (DoS) traffic load in the past 12 months No Title 36% of which failed in application-level DoS attacks. No Title 38% of respondents reported that traditional safeguards understand traffic context and protect against complex, blended threats less than…
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Symantec Launches Instant Messaging Security.Cloud
Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced the availability of Symantec Instant Messaging Security.cloud (IMS.cloud) with support for Microsoft Lync. Symantec is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor that supports Microsoft Lync users, helping organizations that communicate using instant messaging platforms address their security and compliance issues. IMS.cloud scans messages and attachments for malware, blocks malicious URLs, protects organizations from…
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FBI, Security Vendors Partner to Take Down Hacker Consortium
The FBI got an assist from IT security researchers in an operation to shut down one of the world’s longest-running and most-costly botnets that ended last week. In addition to ridding the world of one of its more odious malware infestations, "Operation Ghost Click" also nabbed a brazen criminal consortium of "clickjacking" hackers. The operation…
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Mobile Management Styles Driven by Consumerization: Gartner
Consumerization is now the primary driver of the mobile universe, and CIOs must be ready to embrace a range of more-flexible approaches to their mobile strategy, according to research from IT anayltics firm Gartner. At least four new mobile management styles will emerge as leaders because different groups of staff will demand different approaches: Control,…
