* McAfee to issue patch on Wednesday for vulnerability * Cisco exec touts network management push * Ebbers charge and conviction stands * Boston to use nonprofit group to run its Wi-Fi network * Buzzblog: All news is bad news to a security vendor * Hot Seat: Battle for wireless supremacy * Today on Layer 8
McAfee to issue patch on Wednesday for vulnerability
McAfee Wednesday will issue a patch for a vulnerability affecting its SecurityCenter application, a security software management tool. Click here for more details.
Cisco exec touts network management push
Cisco wants to become a bigger player in the network and application performance management technology realm. In December the company launched the Network Application Performance Analysis (NAPA) product suite, which offered customers traffic and packet analysis, bandwidth monitoring and application performance management products and services. Now Cisco is targeting network device configuration and change management. Cliff Meltzer, senior vice president of the Network Management Technology Group at Cisco,recently discussed how the vendor sees management technology helping customers evolve their networks to support advanced IP applications and network service with Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie. Click here to read and hear more.
Ebbers charge and conviction stands
On Friday a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Bernard Ebbers’ fraud conviction and 25-year sentence. Click here for more.
Boston to use nonprofit group to run its Wi-Fi network
Boston officials Monday announced that they will search for a nonprofit corporation to raise up to $20 million to build and operate wireless Internet services citywide over the next two years. Click here for more.
Buzzblog: All news is bad news to a security vendor
In July, the percentage of e-mail carrying malicious attachments has plummeted to 0.45% – one in 222 – from an average of 1.1% – one in 91 – over the first six months of the year, according to a report issued this morning by security vendor Sophos. Click here for more.
Battle for wireless supremacy
How is Trapeze Networks different than Aruba and can it compete with the 800-pound gorilla that is Cisco in the wireless LAN space? Jim Vogt, CEO of Trapeze, lays out the case for his company’s success on .
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