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Kace Patches Up Patch Tuesday
For hackers and cybercrooks, the twelve days of Christmas are also known as Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft provides the latest information on its security vulnerabilities, detailing how to take advantage of the world’s largest installed IT customer base. It’s a real headache for customers, says Ken Ross, senior product…
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Interwork Adds File Sharing and Offsite Backup to Security as a Service Suite
Ctera Networks (www.ctera.com) has signed on with value-added distributor Interwork Technologies (www.interwork.com) to launch a storage and data protection offering to its more than 4,000 resellers. Called S-Sphere, the all-in-one SMB solution for file sharing and offsite backup is delivered as part of a security as a service (SaaS) suite that features products from five…
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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…
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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,…
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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 .…