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What is Threat Prevention? Though the seemingly constant stream of new viruses, worms, rootkits, denial of service (DoS) attacks and other security threats achieve substantial publicity, such threats don’t usually receive notice until significant damage has already occurred. For most companies, the network perimeter has expanded and blurred with the proliferation of [...]

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If you’ve been following the whole VCE-enabled service provider story, you’ll recall that Harris Corporation was one of first (and perhaps most enthusiastic) Vblock adopters.

They’ve built on Vblocks — and other technologies from V,C and E — to offer up an extremely well-positioned service: the Harris Trusted Enterprise Cloud. Their proposition [...]

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Newer forms of advanced persistent threats (APTs) are very much on many security & IT professionals minds these days.  Maybe they should be on your mind, too.

Over the weekend, RSA’s Uri Rivner posted some very sobering details (“Anatomy Of An Attack“) regarding EMC’s recent experience.  We won’t do this often, but – please [...]

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