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Network security management

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  BT asks Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to reject links to US drone strikes

  BT asks UK officials to reject a complaint about its alleged role in a US military network used to direct drone strikes

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service secures email for public sector collaboration

  The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has secured its information exchange with Egress Switch encryption

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Cisco CEO John Chambers attacks Barack Obama over net neutrality

  Just days after US president Barack Obama backed net neutrality, Cisco CEO John Chambers says it will hurt business

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Network firewalls as relevant to data security as ever, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed

  Network firewalls are as relevant to data security today as they were 20 years ago, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Atos launches security apprentice academy

  IT services company Atos has launched a Cyber Security Academy to give apprentices cyber defence skills

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2

  Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  The View from The Shard to deploy Aruba mobile location services

  London’s highest viewing gallery, the View from the Shard, helps launch Aruba Network’s new Mobile Engagement service

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Wi-Fi forecast predicts one hotspot for every 20 people by 2018

  Worldwide audit for Wi-Fi network aggregator iPass reveals how public Wi-Fi might change in the next four years

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee highlights security challenges of a next-generation government

  McAfee has released a report investigating the security issues the 'government of tomorrow' might face

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee Next Generation firewall addresses siloed security risks

  McAfee claims its Next Generation Firewall product will help CIOs mitigate the risks associated with siloed security products

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Russian cyber criminals exploit Microsoft bug

  Russian hackers have used a vulnerability in Microsoft software to spy on targets including NATO and Western European governments

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  The first big SDN data breach is just a matter of time

  As more enterprises opt for software-defined networking implementations, the potential for a major security breach will grow

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs

  Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Sunborn puts network in the cloud at Docklands’ first floating hotel

  Hospitality firm Sunborn picks Mitel 3300 IP Communications platform for London's first floating hotel

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  UK broadband lags as global average speed hits 4Mbps

  Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report into take-up of superfast broadband and IPv6 shows the UK is lagging

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking

  Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Managed security services to expand to remediation

  Managed security services will focus on remediation as well as monitoring to meet market demand, says Frost & Sullivan

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Huawei aims to become tier one smartphone supplier

  Huawei is riding the BYOD wave, as it vies to turn itself into a credible competitor to Apple and Samsung in the smartphones space

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

  Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Wider public sector needs better understanding of cyber security

  Local government, the NHS and the wider public sector needs to have a better understanding of the threat of cyber security

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Finance and retail applications most vulnerable to breaches

  Finance and retail applications are most susceptible to hacking attacks because of data input by customers, according to research

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  GCHQ produces BYOD guidelines for organisations

  GCHQ's IT security arm provides guidance to organisations who want to allow employees to use personal devices at work

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Kent County Council hands six-year PSN contract to Daisy Updata

  Daisy Updata Communications to manage Kent’s public services network (PSN) deployment across more than 1,300 sites

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  MoD sponsors cyber defence automation competition

  The Ministry of Defence has announced £2m funding for a competition to find innovative ways of automating cyber defences

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Network upgrade levels the playing field for Infiniti Red Bull Racing

  Formula One team Infiniti Red Bull Racing uses AT&T network and UC services to stay in the running after big changes to sporting regulations

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Cisco cuts jobs as profits fall

  Cisco is to cut 6,000 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, after another quarter of shrinking profits

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  National Crime Agency calls for public to update security software

  The National Crime Agency (NCA) is launching a campaign to make people aware of the dangers of being online without security software

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  NetScout sues Gartner over Magic Quadrant placing

  Network performance management supplier NetScout launches lawsuit after being labelled a ‘challenger’ on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  US Airforce Association Cyber Patriot programme comes to UK

  Northrop Grumman teams up with Cyber Security Challenge UK to bring US Air Force Association education challenge to UK

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Android banking apps susceptible to hacking

  A vulnerability in Android applications built on the Apache Cordova platform has sparked new fears over mobile banking

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Redfern deploys Splunk to comply with Information Assurance

  Travel management company Redfern has deployed Splunk for proactive monitoring

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Wi-Fi users not concerned about hotspot security

  Ofcom report uncovers a blasé attitude to wireless security among users

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Russian hackers steal over a billion usernames and passwords

  A group of Russian cyber criminals have attacked 500 million email addresses and gained 1.2 billion usernames and passwords

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Malware incidents make up 25% of CERT-UK's work in first 100 days

  Over half the incidents reported to CERT-UK in the first three months of its operation were not related to critical national infrastructure

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  BlackBerry to buy anti-phone tapping specialist Secusmart

  BlackBerry to buy German voice and data encryption supplier Secusmart for an undisclosed sum

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Cloudwatt deploys SDN to orchestrate public cloud service

  Cloud firm Cloudwatt integrates Juniper OpenContrail SDN, NFV solution to support its public cloud environment

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Law gives 'arbitary' protection against surveillance, tribunal told

  Your choice of mobile phone service can determine whether the government can legally spy on you, tribunal told

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Shropshire primary school claims first all-802.11ac Wi-Fi network

  Windmill Primary School in Telford is the site of the first 802.11ac Wi-Fi network in a UK primary school as it prepares for a major mobile device deployment

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Silent Circle’s OCC VoIP service cuts out roaming costs and snoopers

  Mobile device privacy firm Silent Circle expands its hybrid encrypted Out-Circle Calling, quelling users' snooping fears and cutting roaming costs

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network

  Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Top hardware firms join forces on IoT standards

  Top hardware firms join forces to establish secure and reliable connectivity standards for the internet of things

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  No return to snooper’s charter under emergency surveillance law

  Calls for emergency legislation to force phone and internet providers to keep usage records have renewed debate over snooper’s charter

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Smart light bulbs get security update

  Smart light bulb maker LIFX has issued a firmware update after security researchers exposed a security weakness

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Barclays passes government’s ‘internet-born threat’ test

  Barclays Bank has been awarded the government’s cyber security certificate for digital banking services after independent tests of services such as Pingit

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

  Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager

  Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs