Monthly Archives: August 2012

Firewall Expert Series: GlobalProtect – Palo Alto Networks Blog

Palo Alto Networks holds ongoing 30 minute webinars to provide information about different elements of the next-generation firewall. This month, we’ll be taking
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eBay Builds Virtualized Test Network With Nicira, OpenStack

The online auction house eBay has developed a cloud platform using Nicira’s virtualized networking technology and the open-source OpenStack software to test and build out Web applications. eBay’s decision to build a cloud service in an OpenStack
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Software defined networking, Cisco is also game for it

“Our SDN offering in Cisco ONE includes a host of Virtual Overlay Networks which extend support for OpenStack, multiple hypervisors, and VXLAN gateway functionality for consistency across physical and virtual networks,” she adds. She also notes that
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Editorial: Delaying cybersecurity bill is too risky

Security experts agree America’s infrastructure and military operations are vulnerable to cyberattacks, so it’s worrisome that Congress has chosen to ignore the risk for now. Cyberattacks, which occur when malicious computer code attacks software
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Kaspersky Lab Secure Operating System: It Ain’t Windows 8

He described a worse-case IT scenario where some countries or individuals launch cyber war attacks against other countries. Kaspersky suggested that multiple power plants and electric grids could go dark during cyber wars, even if the attacker was only
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Government Hackers – Party in the NSA

The message that General Alexander had was for hackers to help out the US government – that private sector Information security, hackers, exploit developers, etc had to share information and tools in order to help protect the United States from the
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Beyond Partisanship: Congress Unanimously Opposes UN Internet …

Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan submitted a proposal for an “International Code of Conduct for Information Security‘ to the U.N. General Assembly, with the goal of establishing government-led ‘international norms and rules standardizing
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