* Check Point delivers long-awaited appliance * RSA: Verizon Business makes firewall more flexible * Super Bowl infection much more widespread * IBM Labs' top five research projects * Akamai to acquire Netli for about $170 million * Today on Layer 8
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Check Point delivers long-awaited appliance
Check Point at the RSA Conference this week plans to release a line of enterprise appliances that match the prowess of its firewall software. The Check Point UTM-1 series impressed us in our exclusive Clear Choice Test with its integrated manageability and showed its performance chops with basic firewall and intrusion-prevention-system rules in place. This combination gives security managers the long-overdue opportunity to buy Check Point’s tried and trusted software on an integrated, Check Point-supported hardware base. Click here for the full review.
RSA: Verizon Business makes firewall more flexible
Enterprises using the network-based firewall offered by Verizon Business will now be able to control it much as they would a firewall on their own networks. Click here for more.
Super Bowl infection much more widespread
Security experts are finding an increasing number of Web sites hosting malicious JavaScript code first detected on Super Bowl-related sites last week. Click here for more.
IBM Labs’ top five research projects
IBM opened the doors to its R&D lab in Silicon Valley last week to show off some of the research that is happening around its research facilities in the United States. These include ‘IBM’s Next Five in Five,’ a list of innovations that Big Blue believes could affect the way people work, live and play over the next five years. Click here for more.
Akamai to acquire Netli for about $170 million
Web content delivery company Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Netli, which provides services to help accelerate content and services online, the companies announced Monday. Click here for more.
Today on Layer 8, where we take our grande lattes with an extra shot:
Since Layer 8’s own logo is a coffee cup, I felt we had to comment on the news that in this month’s issue of Consumer Reports, the venerable testing rag said McDonald’s coffee is better than Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and others. For the record, Layer 8 is a Peet’s fan and not much you could say about them would change my mind. Remember though, Consumer Reports is the same magazine that picked Stroh’s as the best beer in America in years past. ‘Nuff said. At your home for not-just-networking news.
