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Beyond the Headlines of Disaster Preparedness
Hurricanes such as this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1 but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas, for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coastal residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to…
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Nokia Security Appliance Sale Signals Marketplace Sea Change
As the stock markets were crashing earlier this week, a mysterious blip popped on the IT security radar: Nokia was looking to unload its security appliance unit to an undisclosed investment firm. A few media outlets picked up on this obscure report in The Wall Street Journal and little more news has come from it…
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SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration Management
Network and IT infrastructure is getting more complex by the day. System administrators are constantly battling the demons of change management and performance degradation. SolarWinds’ latest release, Orion NCM 5.0, gives solution providers a powerful tool that will help their customers achieve network management nirvana. Orion NCM promises to bring network device-configuration control to networks…
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Feds Get Tough on Cybersecurity Weaknesses
The federal government is taking steps to toughen up the nation’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing new policies and an oversight group to direct security efforts and cut wasteful spending. According to a report in eWeek, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved legislation designed to give federal department CIOs more authority…
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McAfee Claims No. 1 Pure-Play Security Spot with Secure Computing Acquisition
With the acquisition of Secure Computing, McAfee is solidifying its spot as the world’s largest pure-play security technology vendor, positioning itself better against key competitors and opening a mother lode of new technologies to its channel resellers. McAfee will pay $465 million for Secure Computing, one of the oldest security companies in the marketplace. With…
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McAfee to Pay $465 Million for Secure Computing
BOSTON (Reuters) – McAfee Inc (MFE.N), the world’s No. 2 security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy Internet security company Secure Computing Corp (SCUR.O) for $465 million in cash. The move gives McAfee a suite of software, services and hardware products to protect hackers from getting past the perimeters of computer networks.…
