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6 IT Security Strategies for 2009
6 IT Security Strategies for 2009 Spammers and cybercriminals are working harder than ever to develop ever-sneakier ways to launch an attack. In anticipation of a 2009 filled with increasingly sophisticated threats from spammers, here are some top strategies IT and security pros can use to thwart the bad guys, compiled from security experts from…
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Websense Web Security Gateway Offers Security via SAAS
For many network administrators, security and insomnia go hand in hand. After all, threats are omnipresent and attacks can happen at any time, day or night. Add to that the rapid adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, and it becomes easy to see how those threats can evolve into something almost impossible to manage. The answer…
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Cracking Open the Antivirus Market
Upon arriving last week in Puerto Rico, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky was picked up by a limo for the hour-long drive to the El Conquistador resort for his second Americas Partner Conference. At one point during the trip, his driver looked in the rearview mirror and asked, “Did you know there’s an antivirus company…
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Cisco, Pelco Get Physical with Joint Security Solutions
As physical security technology shifts from analog to a digital format delivered over IP networks, Cisco has teamed up with physical security equipment leader Pelco to drive wider adoption of physical security technology. The new technology partnership between Pelco and Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit (WNBU) will allow Pelco to deliver Cisco networking-based physical security…
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During Layoffs, Superior ID Management Is an Imperative
If you got a Starbucks gift card, you’d better use it before your local high-octane java store closes. Under pressure from sagging earnings, the premium coffeehouse earlier this week announced that it would close 300 stores and lay off more than 7,000 workers. Starbucks isn’t alone in shedding workers. Microsoft, Boeing, AstraZeneca, Sprint and Home…
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Bell Micro Ramps Up Security Division
Bell Micro is ramping up its Security Division, formed in November 2008, with new vendors and a focus on helping solution providers maintain high margins and deliver holistic security solutions and services. Duncan Hume, who headed up Bell Micro’s United Kingdom security division and who serves as director for the North American security division, says…
