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Face-off: Should you trust your network to open source?
Breaking news
Report says identity thieves working hand in hand with ‘bot herders’
The underground economy where criminals sell stolen personal and financial data appears to often rely on network infrastructure supplied by the kingpins of the botnet world, according to Symantec’s biannual Internet Threat Report published Monday.
Review
Red Hat hits hard with virtualization and security combo in new OS release
Reviewer Tom Henderson writes: Sex appeal doesn’t seem to be the focus of this release. Instead, Red Hat makes a strong statement in its competitive infrastructure in the form well-executed virtualization and user session controls in its RHEL5 release. The aggressive number of components inside this operating system still beg to be sewn together more comprehensively with better administrative tools, but the fundamentals are definitely in there.
In depth
The New Data Center: Defending your net
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, with in-depth case studies and how-to articles.
From the blogs and forums
Discuss: My biggest security threat is my IT staff. Would you buy Microsoft VoIP wares? Users debate buying used Cisco gear – and data-breach apology letters.
A user who is both firefighter and IT pro questions low-oxygen data-center systems. James Gaskin praises Macs, but not enough for Mac fans. Adam Gaffin discusses a Boston doctor who discovers a Webcam set up in a patient room. Paul McNamara discusses Wikipedia’s latest mistake. Mark Gibbs and readers continue to ponder virtual bumper stickers in people’s e-mail signatures. Users consider ways to harden TCP and triangulate spoof attacks.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user get a switch ready for a SAN. Andrew Lockhart helps a user figure out how to track down a wireless device doing MAC spoofing. John Ford considers whether the threat from data leakage is overblown.
ITVideo
By George, it’s a cool iPod stereo
Keith Shaw is very impressed with Chestnut Hill Sound’s George iPod stereo system, particularly the full-featured, ZigBee-powered remote control.
More news
SOA software on tap from IBM, Sun, Infor and Vitria
Vitria Technology and CA today are releasing service-oriented architecture software products aimed at letting customers more easily monitor and fix problems that occur in an SOA environment.
Apptix VoIP SaaS offering targets SMBs
Software-as-a-service provider Apptix is expanding its product line Monday with a VoIP service designed for small and midsize businesses.
