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Next-generation IT infrastructure is characterized by its openness, a services-orientation, Web-based computing – serving a company, as it were, without boundaries. This poses a variety of challenges for enterprise IT security officers – how, for example, do you keep confidential data from passing through now-more porous perimeters? Or, how do you embrace mobility while maintaining high security standards? In this, the second in our six-part New Data Center series, we address these and other questions as we examine the latest trends, technologies and best practices for protecting increasingly open enterprise information infrastructures.

Julie Bort and Beth Schultz

>Security podcasts::
• AT&T CSO Ed Amoroso on enterprise security a la 2017.	• Bill Yerazunis, chair, MIT Spam Conference, on the “spam ecosystem.”
• Omar Hussain, Imprivata CEO, on converging physical and IT security.	• Kevin Prince, CSO of Perimeter eSecurity, on new hacker threats in 2007.

>New Data Center community: Read what your peers have to say on these hot security topics, cast your vote, share your thoughts: • Does the IT staff represent your company's biggest security threat? • Is virtualization bad for security?


>New Data Center on the road: A new IDG World Expo conference focusing on emerging technologies and their impact on the data center. Coming: Aug. 6-9, San Francisco	>Ask the experts: Have a question about the threats you face inside the firewall? Check out our Insider Threat Q&A archive or write to us
>New Data Center voices: • Security Strategies, a weekly newsletter by M.E. Kabay, associate professor at Norwich University. Latest topic.	>Best of the New Data Center: Part 1 of this series: the best products and practices

(click a topic for archived stories)


• The 10 best NDC products • Six open source gems • Cool career: data center architect	• Researchers analyze storage management • Boot-from-SAN technology • CitiStreet wins with virtual tape

• 10 best practices for your SOA • Best practices for the new IT • Making security a shared responsibility	• Storage change management • Mercantile Exchange and change management • The perils of automated security

• McDonald’s serves up Wi-Fi • Gannett’s VMware network • AARP advances Web services	• Researcher: Storage management • Security expert Rhonda MacLean • Starwood CTO: Outsourcing

• UPS exec: tips for grids • Grid computing comes of age • JPMorgan Chase’s capacity on demand	• 10 best practices for your SOA • Achieving application optimization • SOA governance

• Map of the wireless world • Interactive model of the New Data Center I • Interactive model of the New Data Center II	• Taking VMware beyond the basics • Managing virtualization • Five virtualization tips

• The hacker-resistant database • The security operations center • An identity management foundation	• Six proven wireless products • Managing wired/wireless nets • Map of the wireless world