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IoT security is getting its own crash tests

Decades-old ICSA Labs has launched a program to test and certify IoT products

May 25, 2016 2 mins
Internet of Things Security
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Regulators: cybersecurity poses biggest risk to global financial system

Last week, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission called cybersecurity the biggest risk facing the global financial industry

May 25, 2016 5 mins
Compliance Cybercrime Security
how-to

How to use Anycast to provide high availability to a RADIUS server

A brilliant solution for providing high availability in a small RADIUS server/ISE deployment

May 25, 2016 5 mins
Cisco Systems Computers and Peripherals Network Security
news analysis

Software-Defined WANs: Viptela gets $75M in funding

C- round funding brings Viptela’s total funding to about $110M.

May 25, 2016 2 mins
Cisco Systems Data Center SDN
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Top-level domain expansion is a security risk for business computers

Automatic proxy configuration requests frequently leak on the public Internet from corporate computers

May 25, 2016 4 mins
Network Security Networking Security
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Microsoft kills off another chunk of its smartphone activities

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is focusing the company's smartphone efforts where it can differentiate: in security, manageability and Continuum, which allows Windows 10 phones to be used as computers

May 25, 2016 2 mins
Mobile Device Management Mobile Security Small and Medium Business
news analysis

Windows 7 updates have been broken for several days

Windows Update attempts to download the latest bug fixes, but the install never gets past 0% progress

May 24, 2016 2 mins
Microsoft Small and Medium Business Windows
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Disaster recovery in a DevOps world

Organizations that are adopting DevOps methodologies are realizing actual benefits from taking that approach.

May 24, 2016 6 mins
Disaster Recovery Security
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By the numbers: Cyber attack costs compared

Not all cyber attacks are created equal.

May 24, 2016 1 min
IT Skills and Training Security
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US state officials worry about their ability to respond to cyberattacks

States are having trouble recruiting top cybersecurity workers, lawmakers are told

May 24, 2016 2 mins
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