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Top Five Risks of Perimeter Firewalls and the One Way to Overcome Them All

Tech Republic Security

Firewalls have been an integral part of the enterprise network architecture. But with the shift to digital business models the once-sturdy firewall has gone from a security staple to a security risk. Read more to learn the five major risks brought on by legacy firewalls in a world of cloud and mobile.

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CIOs Want To Know: How Secure Is Your Mobile Phone?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Where are the weaknesses of mobile phones and what can CIOs do about it? As the person with the CIO job, you realize just how important mobile phones are to your company. Bad Things Can Happen Using A Mobile Phone. So just exactly what kind of bad things can happen to somebody’s mobile phone?

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Embrace DBaaS to Speed Up Mobile App Development

CTOvision

As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. There’s no denying the massive growth in mobile applications within the enterprise. By Chip Childers.

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Are next-generation firewalls legacy technology?

Network World

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. This model is changing rapidly, however. Software is eating the world.

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The Cloud – Gateway to Enterprise Mobility

Eric D. Brown

The world of mobile ten years ago was one that was mobile, but wasn’t. Companies setup virtual private networks (VPN’s) to allow access to the company systems from outside the firewall. Today, mobility is much different in most organizations. The security issues that existed were fairly minor.

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NexSan adds mobile app access to Unity file-sync-and-share

Computer Weekly

NexSan Unity can now be accessed by iPhone and Android mobile users as well as from desktops and laptops to provide Dropbox-like functionality within the firewall

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FireMon, Breaking into Australian and New Zealand Markets

CTOvision

We don’t make the firewall, we don’t make the F5 load balancer, we don’t make the Cisco router, but we make them better,” DeBell said. The most significant play for FireMon, according to DeBell, was the move toward next-generation firewall. Ericsson and Cisco: Better Together in Mobile Backhaul? Related articles.

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