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	Obama: Broadband should be regulated as a utility The president also calls on the FCC to stop broadband providers from charging content companies to prioritize their traffic Read More   WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More In this Issue Riverbed is now a FORCE in hybrid WANs Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in small business RV Series routers HP's BYOD service protects mobile devices and PCs Apple was warned about WireLurker months ago, Georgia Tech researcher says INSIDER Cloud adoption continues apace WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Riverbed is now a FORCE in hybrid WANs A little over a decade ago WAN optimization became a real market, and it was flooded with names like Peribit, Actona, Packeteer, and SWAN Labs. However, no one did WAN optimization better than Riverbed. In fact, Riverbed and the term WAN optimization became synonymous with one another as the market took off. WAN optimization was hot because it solved a huge problem – it made applications such as Windows file transfer and Exchange work better over wide area connections, alleviating a sore point for network managers for years. Once deployed, it was impossible to take out. I remember interviewing a network manager of a global firm who referred to Riverbed as "network crack." Once workers got used to an optimized WAN connection, it was impossible to go back to a non-optimized connection.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation   Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. Learn More Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in small business RV Series routers The flaws allow attackers to execute commands, overwrite files and launch CSRF attacks Read More   WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation   Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. Learn More HP's BYOD service protects mobile devices and PCs Hewlett-Packard wants to make BYOD easier for small businesses through a new cloud-based service to manage and protect mobile devices and PCs.The company's Web-based Touchpoint Manager service, launched Monday, can remotely check the health of smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. It can also issue alerts and remotely lock or wipe data from devices in case of theft.The service is for businesses with up to 500 employees that need a basic bring-your-own-device management plan at an affordable price, said Michael Park, vice president and general manager of Commercial Mobility, Printer and Personal Systems at HP.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Apple was warned about WireLurker months ago, Georgia Tech researcher says The WireLurker malware that may have infected hundreds of thousands of Mac OS and iOS devices is exactly similar to a proof-of-concept attack Apple was warned about at the beginning of this year, according to the researcher who first publicly described such attacks.The malware can siphon off data from iOS devices when they sync up with computers or are charged by computers via USB cables, but the potential for this type of attack can be much broader, says Tielei Wang, a researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology who presented a paper about such attacks at USENIX Security Symposium in August.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Cloud adoption continues apace Cloud adoption is increasing as companies identify more IT operations they want to migrate. However, the pace and implementation focus vary according to company size, industry and job titles of parties involved, while security concerns persist as the top challenge to deployment, according to a new survey of 1,672 IT decision-makers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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