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| “As a long-standing industry expert in Internet routing, software engineering and communication protocol development, Roland fits right in – once again. He is a Cisco veteran having held several general management and executive leadership positions from 1991 – 2003. In 2010, he came back to Cisco as Vice President in our Smart Grid Business Unit, following the acquisition of Arch Rock, a developer of IPv6-based wireless sensor networks where he served as President and CEO. Prior to Arch Rock, he was the President and CEO of Procket Networks,” wrote David Goeckeler senior VP/GM for Cisco’s networking and security business in a blog about Acra’s return. Read More ▶ |
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| | | White Paper: Softchoice Corporation Cloud computing has come a long way in recent years, from a nebulous buzz term, to an instrumental driver of almost every serious IT department on the planet. Windows Azure, Microsoft's umbrella brand for its cloud services and tools, has been a key contributor to the cloud's meteoric rise in enterprises and businesses everywhere. Read More ▶ | | Want to be more repsponsible about IT security in your organization? Start with these 10 security topics. Read More ▶ |
| | Google and Microsoft are butting heads over the disclosure of vulnerabilities. On Monday, Google revealed a critical flaw in Windows after it gave Microsoft a ten-day window to warn the public about it. Read More ▶ |
| | | | For most of us, pagers went out when cell phones came in, but some companies are still using them and when the messages sent without encryption, attackers can listen in and even interfere with the communications Read More ▶ |
| | Following similar decisions by Mozilla and Apple, Google plans to reject new certificates issued by two certificate authorities because they violated industry rules and best practices. Read More ▶ |
| | Wombat Security Technologies recommends remote employees follow these 10 best practices to shore up security for their organizations — and themselves. Read More ▶ |
| | Retailers, hotels and restaurants have all been victimized through the same Achilles' heel that cyber criminals continue to attack: the point-of-sale system, where customer's payment data is routinely processed. Read More ▶ |
| | The DDoS attacks that flooded Dyn and knocked high-profile Web sites offline don’t mean businesses should abandon DNS service providers, in fact they should use more than one DNS provider for redundancy. Read More ▶ |
| | The U.K. government will spend £1.9 billion (US $2.3 billion) over the next five years to pump up its cybersecurity defenses and pay for new research, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. Read More ▶ |
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