Enterprise

Virtualization platforms are software. All software has flaws. Therefore, virtualization platforms have flaws. Simple logic, right? The major virtualization platform vendors, VMware, Xen (now Citrix), and Microsoft, have all had several vulnerabilities over the last few years. However, the major components of a virtualization infrastructure and the IT strategy related to deployment and maintenance of virtualization technologies can be planned and secured fairly well. The following sections will explore the major areas of concern for security professionals.

Seagate has announced a complete portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime.

Google acquired reMail recently. There are two major activities which followed the acquisition: removal of the application from the App Store and open sourcing it.

Are your firewalls overloaded? Symptoms of overloaded firewalls include high CPU, low throughput and slow applications. Before upgrading your hardware, it is worth checking whether or not your firewall configuration can be optimized. Here, Reuven Harrison CTO of Tufin Technologies gives firewall administrators some best practices for optimizing firewalls for maximum performance and throughput.

In the modern business world, information is king.  It is the jewel in the crown of every enterprise, defining what an organization does, providing the means to undertake the business and is often the key output or commodity of the company. So the question begs; why are some companies fundamentally lax with their information?  More importantly, why are they so fundamentally lax about protecting my personal information?  And what can be done to correct this apparent lack of understanding and awareness?

There’s no doubt that virtualisation has gained a firm foothold in many IT organisations with its ability to deliver more computing power for less money.  The cost and technical benefits of virtualisation have created an internal frenzy to move more systems to a virtual environment.

Need a pair of shoes? Or an airline ticket? Or a book? Or 100 servers to get you through the holiday online sales rush? No problem. Go online and your needs are (nearly) instantaneously fulfilled. Instant gratification may be the single greatest driver in the revolution that is fuelled by virtualization and delivering software and services from the Cloud. Today more and more vendors like ourselves are launching new services and feeding this desire. The impact is only beginning to be understood.

Token authentication technology has evolved steadily since the 1970’s. Beginning with Challenge Tokens, moving to time sync tokens, the driving factor has always been increased convenience for the end user.

With today’s announcement that it is killing its long-standing partnership arrangement with HP, Cisco has clearly highlighted that a product play is still a critical component of its longer-term strategy.

Whenever we enter a new decade, many of us like to take stock and think about the things that have changed over the last ten years and what may happen during the next twelve months. But as Niels Bohr once said, prediction is difficult, especially about the future. Nevertheless, almost all network security companies try to assess risk and the potential impact of criminal behaviour, fraud and Internet malware for their clients.