Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took the IT world by storm: They make deployment a snap — even instantaneous — while at the same time reducing costs. It’s a formula that made hardware-based appliances immensely popular for network security, backup, storage networking, file services, email, and many other single-focus solutions.
Last month, ICANN approved the .xxx top-level domain for adult websites. It’s been a controversial subject for many years, with conservatives saying the domain legitimizes the porn industry and pornographers decrying digital segregation. Well, the domain is approved, but there is no law in place that will force adult websites to use it (at least, not yet).
New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet.
Oracle will acquire Secerno, which makes firewall products for databases that protect against hackers and data breaches, the companies said Thursday.
The purchase price was not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close at the end of next month, according to Oracle.
So you’ve decided that you want a Cisco ASA5510 firewall or two. Unfortunately it’ll cost you dearly, assuming you can even find one. It seems that Cisco is having some significant production problems with the ASA line, and as a result, ASAs are suddenly as rare as hen’s teeth. This is bad news for just about everyone — except Cisco’s competitors.
Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform’s new security features. In addition to changes to User Account Control, BitLocker, and other features inherited from Windows Vista, Windows 7 introduces a slew of security capabilities that businesses will want to take advantage of.
Whether your business is a big fish or a small-fry home office, you can get hacked just the same, and the stakes are higher than a few canceled credit cards. Here are a few tips to protect your users and your networks — steps that even enterprise-class security specialists may slip up on.
Do you know how to guard against scareware? How about Trojan horse text messages? Or social network data harvesting? Malicious hackers are a resourceful bunch, and their methods continually evolve to target the ways we use our computers now.
Akamai Technologies is introducing a cloud-based managed service called Web Application Firewall it claims will head off the bulk of Web applications attacks before they get inside corporate datacenters.
Startup InZero Systems Tuesday makes its debut with a security service that promises to protect PCs from possible malware, intrusions, and other types of attacks.
