Towards Automated Provisioning of Secure Virtualized Networks [ Source: Association for Computing Machinery ]
January 2008- This paper from Hewlett-Packard describes a secure network virtualization framework that helps realize the abstraction of Trusted Virtual Domains (TVDs), a security-enhanced variant of virtualized network zones. The framework allows groups of related virtual machines running on separate physical machines to be connected together as though they were on their own separate network fabric and, at the same time, helps enforce cross-group security requirements such as isolation, confidentiality, security, and information flow control. The framework ...

The Evolution of LAN Bypass Technology: Lanner's Generation One to Generation Three Bypass [ Source: Lanner Electronics ]
October 2011- Software stability is a major issue on any platform, but especially network appliances since it could affect the availability of a network. Anyone who uses software has most likely experienced problems that hang and/or force a reset of a computer or program. Such problems also occur in network appliances, and there may be times when there are no administrators around to get the appliance up and running again when things go wrong. The interruption ...

Networking and Unified Communications [ Source: CDW ]
June 2009- IT managers face a difficult task in trying to offer robust services and applications while reducing IT costs and complexity. With unified communications, IT managers can offer streamlined communication solutions and advanced productivity applications throughout the network. Find out how.

Zscaler Explains Its In-The-Cloud Service [ Source: Zscaler ]
August 2008- Most of today’s security products—such as firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS—protect corporate networks and servers from threats coming from the Internet. Newer threats, such as bots, phishing, and malicious active content, target end users accessing Internet resources and infect corporate networks. Other than deploying caching and URL filtering products, corporations have done very little to inspect user-initiated traffic and protect their users. Web 2.0 applications, such as social and business networking, create both opportunities ...

Protect Networks from Non-Compliant Remote PCs [ Source: D-Link ]
August 2008- As more and more users work from the road, at home and at Wi-Fi hot spots within the community, tainted clients are routinely infiltrating hardened local networks. IT staff spend excessive amounts of time manually addressing each problem, installing patches, and granting access after everything’s cleaned up. Meanwhile, productivity takes a dive and human error is introduced to the process.

With Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) and D-Link switching technology, the compliance ...

IT Risk Management Report 2: Myths And Realities [ Source: Symantec ]
December 2008- Think IT risk and risk management is only about security? Or that it’s just an annual exercise and technology controls are sufficient to address concerns in this area? Or perhaps you believe that the principles of risk management apply universally across all business environments? If so, think again—and find out why those views could leave your organization in a vulnerable position.