Server Virtualization Security: A Lot More Work Is Needed

	A deep dive into Cisco's ScanSafe SaaS security tool | White House group takes aim at Internet privacy
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	Server Virtualization Security: A Lot More Work Is Needed Security tools must be complemented with skills, processes, and organizational changes If you attended VMworld in late August, you know that virtualization security was featured extensively. Ditto for VMworld Europe where VMware CEO Paul Maritz included a few security slides in his keynote presentation. Maritz and VMware get it -- virtualization security has been somewhat neglected until recently. If server virtualization is truly to become next-generation cloud infrastructure, security... Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Load Balancers Are Dead Gartner Research Note "Load Balancers are Dead: Time to Focus on Application Delivery" helps you understand how to replace your basic load balancing technology and focus on getting the highest availability, performance and security for your web apps. Includes key recommendations you can use. Read now. 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A deep dive into Cisco's ScanSafe SaaS security tool Cisco ScanSafe offers Cloud Based Web SecurityCisco now has two web security offerings, one that is on premise (Ironport Web Security Appliance) and one that is in the cloud (ScanSafe Web Security). Cisco says you can also combine the two services for a hybrid approach to web security. Most are new to Cisco's ScanSafe SaaS offering so that is what the focus of today will be on. First lets start with what is ScanSafe web security? ScanSafe... Read More White House group takes aim at Internet privacy Internet privacy issues at top of White House committeeThe White House National Science and Technology Council today said it would set up a multi-agency subcommittee to monitor and address global Internet privacy policy challenges and help address those  challenges through coordinated US government action. Read More Kinect Long Term Privacy Issues Daunting? Microsoft's new Kinect gesture-based game controller is about to invade living rooms across the world, but a privacy group is concerned about long term facial and voice recognition privacy issues.Microsoft's new Kinect gesture-based game controller is about to invade living rooms across the world. If Microsoft has its way, the living room is only the start of interactive sci-fi-like gesturce controlled technology in every room of every house. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed What's Needed for Cloud Computing Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. Read now! Security company strengthens CAPTCHAs with video A security company called NuCaptcha is incorporating advertising into a video CAPTCHA system that is much harder for computers to break. Read More Fix a Windows Infection Using Linux If you use Linux on your company's desktop or server computers, you're already familiar with many of the security advantages the open source operating system offers over its Windows and Mac rivals. What many people don't realize, however, is that Linux can also be used to rescue a computer that has been crippled by malware. Read More SCADA security: A real-world case study A few years ago, my consulting organization was asked to perform a security assessment of the SCADA system for a large water and power company in a large metropolitan area, with service and resources spread across an even larger geographical area. This article and the next are the story of that initial assessment, the follow-through by the organization, and the repeat assessment story of a decade later. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Google Android security improves, but trails iPhone and BlackBerry Android 2.2 improved security, but the iPhone and BlackBerry are still ahead of Google's smartphone OS. Read More Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualized systems? Virtualization poses storage, VM sprawl and security challenges. Read More Report: Global theft decreases in 2010 The 2010 Global Retail Theft Barometer finds theft was down from 2009 rates. But more than a quarter of U.S. retailers were still impacted by crime. 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