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	Boost in IPv6 use is only one step to solution Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can't be reached without IPv4, the current Internet Protocol, which is near running out of unclaimed addresses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?     Using VMware NIC Teaming?     Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)     Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff Click to continue In this Issue FAQ: What you should know about the Illinois water-district SCADA breach Darragh Delaney: How LAN problems can impact on your firewalls Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz The Cloud, Day 10: Storing Data in the Cloud Around the World: How safe is WPA2-secured Wi-Fi? Business Software Alliance withdraws support for Stop Online Piracy Act Healthcare breaches: Do they even matter? WHITE PAPER: FileMaker Quickly Deliver Business Data to iPads and iPhones Challenged by the explosion of iPad and iPhone users expecting access to corporate data? FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, offers a middleware bridge that helps developers quickly provide on-demand access to corporate data in formatted reports and charts while giving IT the control it needs to manage and secure mobile data delivery. Read now! FAQ: What you should know about the Illinois water-district SCADA breach Here are some key questions and answers about the Nov. 8 break-in of the control network at an Illinois water utility that resulted in attackers burning out a pump. Read More Darragh Delaney: How LAN problems can impact on your firewalls This week seems to have being a firewall issue week for me. I have worked on incidents in two large networks where problems on the LAN managed to bring down firewalls at the edge of the network. Firewalls have come a long way since the original stateless varieties which were little more than a collection of access control lists. These were superseded by stateful firewalls which kept track of the state of network connections. Modern firewalls are now application aware, you can do things like block access to certain applications or prevent users from using applications like Bittorrent.   Read More Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz The latest release of Cisco's WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them. Read More WEBCAST: HP Optimizing Networks for the Cloud Live on 12/6/11 at 1:00 PM EST/ 10:00 AM PST! Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. Register Now! The Cloud, Day 10: Storing Data in the Cloud Aside from email, one of the most known and widely used "cloud" services is data storage. As I continue my 30 Days With the Cloud journey, I have a wide choice of online storage options to choose from. Today I will take a look at some of them, and some of the pros and cons of using cloud storage at all. Read More Around the World: How safe is WPA2-secured Wi-Fi? Darryl Boyett asked if his home Wi-Fi connection, which uses WPA2 protection, is safe enough for online banking.   Read More Business Software Alliance withdraws support for Stop Online Piracy Act The United States' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow domain names seizures by U.S. authorities on copyright 'infringing' websites, has taken another blow as a leading proponent does a U-turn on supporting it. Read More Healthcare breaches: Do they even matter? Electronic medical record breaches continue, yet the public pays little attention to healthcare provider security and privacy policies. Read More
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