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  • Microsoft Updates Endpoint Forefront Products

    Microsoft updated two endpoint security products in the Forefront family this week, as it continues to position security as not only a means of protecting assets but of allowing companies and their employees to get their jobs done. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 acts as a Web security gateway and is an upgrade from a…

  • Hardware’s Not Glamorous

    I just completed another hardware spec. Like every hardware spec I’ve done in the past six years, I spent a while tweaking CPU, memory and disk. I could spend an entire day playing with the various RAID configurations for performance versus cost. If I add lots of spindles to a system, I increase performance, but…

  • U.S. Government Calls Cisco, Juniper Gear Vulnerable to Hackers

    (Reuters) – The U.S. government has identified flaws in equipment from four companies, including Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O), that hackers can exploit to break into corporate computer networks. The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, said on its website on Wednesday that the warning applies to certain networking products from Cisco,…

  • ‘Leave It to Beaver’ for VAR Marketing

    Cal Net Technology Group CEO Zack Schuler understands that to succeed in business you need to market your capabilities and what differentiates you from the competition. He also understands the power of video in conveying such messages, and that a solution provider needs more than just a rack of servers and a pithy tech story…

  • Websense Protects URL Shortening Service bit.ly

    Websense announced this week that it started working with bit.ly to prevent hackers from abusing the shortening service and tricking users into visiting sites hosting malicious content. One of the leading URL shortening services for social networking sites such as Twitter, bit.ly and others like it have been subject to a wide spectrum of chicanery…

  • Northrop Grumman Founds Cybersecurity Consortium

    Defense contractor Northrop Grumman addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week to announce a new private sector-academic cybersecurity consortium that it hopes will accelerate research to address growing threats to government and private-sector infrastructure. The results could put the system integrator at an even bigger advantage within the government security market .…

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