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To give a brief overview, an organization installs a FireEye device on their internal network, then connects it to a SPAN or mirror port at an egress point (these are monitoring ports built into professional networking equipment).  The FireEye device then watches all network traffic passively, monitoring common protocols like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc, for any transferred files. If a file transfer is detected (for example, an email attachment or a HTTP download) the FireEye extracts the file and scans it for malware. ...READ MORE

The problem I see starts with inadequate planning. Nobody means for it to happen. DR is important. But staff is overloaded, and DR is less urgent than day-to-day concerns, so the planning just… slides out into the future. Stephen Covey wrote about a 2 x 2 matrix, with axes being “urgency” versus “importance.” When the phone rings, that’s urgent but might not be important. DR is important but never very urgent. Long-term important things like DR tend not to happen......READ MORE

What makes a city smart? As with any buzz term, the definition varies. But in general, it refers to using information and communications technologies to deliver sustainable economic development and a higher quality of life, while engaging citizens and effectively managing natural resources.....READ MORE

"We will work to reduce digital divide within Africa and between Africa and rest of the world", Narendra Modi. He envisages India and Africa 2-hotspots and said, "Technology will be a strong foundation of our partnership."....READ MORE

Over time, companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant....READ MORE

Uncover what mega trends will impact our lives in the future. More on connected devices, smart cities, personal robots, device monitoring and online retailing....READ MORE

The tech industry has been going strong, and that is expected to continue for next year as IT unemployment shrinks even further, salaries inch higher, and increased technology initiatives create exciting career opportunities. Along with the traditional upgrades and migration projects that were always a staple of IT, businesses are investing in new capabilities and expanding tech beyond the IT department at a rapid rate, making technology pros -- and networking pros in particular -- indispensable. Experienced tech professionals in hot areas such as security, big data and mobility may find it easy to find a higher paying position....READ MORE

Today, businesses that hope to build an effective data strategy need to invest in building both data, and the trust of customers that makes it accessible. By giving customers more value—not just with traditional offers, but with new kinds of data-enabled benefits—and offering more transparency and control, businesses can develop a long-term relationship with customers that puts data at the center of a true value exchange.....READ MORE

The first large scale attacks were first seen in 1989 when $70 million was stolen from the First National Bank of Chicago. This shocked the world and triggered the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to be passed as law in the UK. The act criminalised any unauthorised access to computer systems and was a big step in attempting to halt cyber crime....READ MORE

To defeat whatever cyber-criminals may throw your way, you need application-layer protection plus a big network to handle high-magnitude attacks. It takes economies of scale to justify the cost of a complete solution that safeguards against both volumetric and “low and slow” threats.....READ MORE

Now it turns out, ISIS has a whole help desk infrastructure set-up with what basically maps to tiers of support for cryptography usage in your day to day terrorist communications. When you graduate through the basic levels of encryption your comms, you get moved up to Tier 2 support – wow.....READ MORE

Cloud is a key enabler of improved business performance. Better and more consistent application performance and availability, greater flexibility and business agility, and lower costs can all be found through our connection to the cloud. These days, the cloud may be like a given. In fact, there are a plethora of decisions to make along your journey to the cloud. One of the most important is how your network will enable efficient cloud connection. This infographic provides deep insight into how the state of your network can make or break your cloud experience.....READ MORE

One of the benefits of SD-WAN, outside of data center and cloud connectivity, is consolidating all of the functions necessary such as network encryption, physical path selection, policy based controls, robust routing and so on to interconnect remote offices into a secure network over the Internet while at the same time significantly reducing operational management.....READ MORE

While companies consider cost a significant barrier to technology adoption, the GTAI 2015 shows that the companies who have allocated budget for meaningful investments in technology have seen overall company growth across several important measurements of progress. From improved efficiency to stronger revenue, cloud, mobility, big data and security technologies are proving to play a key role in company growth and goal attainment.....READ MORE

Our business WiFi networks already see a lot of performance-sucking by-products of a client market that never really got its act together despite the promises of interoperability by groups like the WiFi alliance, and we’re not exactly in the right collective mindset for the IoT onslaught. To WLAN admins, there is no longer a line between consumer and business WLAN clients, as everything makes its way to the corporate WiFi network....READ MORE

NAT worked very well for many, many years, and slowed the address depletion a great deal. But in order to perform that translation, you still needed to acquire at least one globally addressable IP. As such, this only served to slow down depletion but not prevent it - carriers were still required to provide that globally addressable IP from their own address space. With the explosive growth of the Internet of Things, carriers likewise began to run out of address space to allocate.....READ MORE

According to a recent ESG survey, 92% of Dell and EMC’s customers expect to maintain or increase their level of spending with the combined company. It’s hard to get a much more bullish signal than that....READ MORE

In 2016, cybersecurity’s major brands will go up against each other in head-to-head battles in front of a global audience of corporate board members and CEOs at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations, CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers), IT security professionals, members of the media, and watchers from all industries.....READ MORE

Virtualization is one of those technologies that has been an important feature in the IT landscape, and that will take on new importance as the Internet of Things continues to expand.....READ MORE

In this slideshow, we'll look at eight common enterprise WiFi shortcomings that stem from one or more of the issues discussed above. So while some problems can be fixed by better procedures and/or documentation, others require complete overhauls of the current network in order to fix technical or architectural problems....READ MORE