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New products of the week 2.8.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow. Spark-Redis connectorKey features: The Spark-Redis connector package is open source and provides a library for writing and reading from a Redis cluster with access to Redis' data structures – String, Hash, List, Set, Sorted Set, bitmaps, hyperloglogs – from Spark as RDDs. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 2.8.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow. Spark-Redis connectorKey features: The Spark-Redis connector package is open source and provides a library for writing and reading from a Redis cluster with access to Redis' data structures – String, Hash, List, Set, Sorted Set, bitmaps, hyperloglogs – from Spark as RDDs. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 2.1.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Appcito Application Delivery System (ADS) Key features: New self-service provider-tenant portal for Enterprise Infrastructure and Application teams delivering application performance, security, visibility and analytics. Service adapters for F5 Big-IP LTM and HAProxy devices – per-application visibility and analytics. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 1.25.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Actifio Global ManagerKey features: AGM is a web-scale data virtualization solution delivering instant access and radically simple management of application data for business resiliency and test data management across private, public, and hybrid cloud. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 1.25.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Actifio Global ManagerKey features: AGM is a web-scale data virtualization solution delivering instant access and radically simple management of application data for business resiliency and test data management across private, public, and hybrid cloud. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Data breach numbers still high in 2015

New year, new leakImage by Eli ChristmanThe number of U.S. data breaches tracked in 2014 hit a record high of 783 in 2014, according to a recent report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center. 2015 fell just two breaches short of tying that record. Here is a list of those breaches that compromised more than 1 million records (see the full report).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Social engineering: 7 signs that something is just not right

Keep an eye out for thisImage by ThomasThe best remedies a company can put in place start with education and teaching what to look for and what not to do. Morey Haber, vice president of Technology, BeyondTrust, lists some of the gotchas that should make your employees back away from the incoming email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 1.18.2016

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Cloudmark TridentKey features: Cloudmark Trident combines threat intelligence, anomaly detection, context analysis and behavioral learning to intercept spear phishing attacks that evade current solutions. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Have you broken your security resolutions yet?

Keeping your resolutionsImage by UsodesitaWe are almost halfway through the first month of 2016 and I am sure many people have already let their personal resolutions fall apart. But what about your professional resolutions? How have they held up? Is it easier to shore up your network’s security than exercise every day? These security professionals offer up their resolutions for the new year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 12.28.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.GigaVUE-FM applianceKey features: The GigaVUE-FM appliance simplifies the management and orchestration of visibility infrastructure and enables enterprises to increase the scale and reach of Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric with additional, dedicated compute capacity. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 12.21.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.CloudBerry Backup for Mac OS and Linux OS FreewareKey features: CloudBerry Backup for Mac and Linux provides flexible scheduling options and retention policies, email notifications, as well as support for MS Azure, Amazon S3 including Standard-IA storage class. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Experience matters

The end of the year always brings about thoughts of what changes should occur in the coming year. If a change of job is in your thoughts, security executives say they look  at prospective employees’ experience before they even take a step through the door. “Certifications are a good shorthand for acquired knowledge, but experience is critical,” said Geoff Webb, vice president of solution strategy for NetIQ, the security portfolio of Micro Focus.  According to Dice’s latest hiring survey, finding highly-skilled tech talent will be a top hiring priority for companies in 2016. A record 78 percent of hiring managers anticipate more hiring in the first half of 2016 compared to the second half of 2015, Dice notes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

New products of the week 12.14.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Array Networks vAPV Virtual Application Delivery Controller for Microsoft Azure MarketplaceKey features: Array’s vAPV Virtual Application Delivery Controller gives customers deploying on Microsoft Azure the ability to significantly enhance the availability, performance and security of cloud-based services. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top security stories of 2015

More data breachesImage by Flickr: Chris MarquardtHacking Team, Comcast, Ashley Madison… the list goes on of companies who became just another notch in the belt of cybercriminals. Like in years past, data breaches were top of the list for our year in review story. Here are some stories that made headlines in 2015.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 12.07.15

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.OOB Console Access & Remote 240VAC RebootKey features: Out-of-Band access to console ports plus OOB reboot control for managing network applications at inaccessible equipment sites.  Features dual power inlets and built in ATS, plus monitoring and alarm functions. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 12.07.15

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.OOB Console Access & Remote 240VAC RebootKey features: Out-of-Band access to console ports plus OOB reboot control for managing network applications at inaccessible equipment sites.  Features dual power inlets and built in ATS, plus monitoring and alarm functions. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.23.15

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Actiance Supervisory Capabilities for Alcatraz Key features: Actiance released expanded supervisory review capabilities for Alcatraz, its cloud-based archive. The expanded supervisory capabilities employ advanced analytics to enable greater insight into conversations occurring across 70+ communication channels. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.16.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Blue Jeans 3.0Key features: new integrations and centralized control, ROI and management tools. Specifically, Blue Jeans 3.0 will include: A refreshed and unified user interface offering new audio capabilities and one-click connections; WebRTC support for Google Chrome, including a new user interface, new audio capabilities, and usability improvements for frictionless meeting entry. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.16.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Blue Jeans 3.0Key features: new integrations and centralized control, ROI and management tools. Specifically, Blue Jeans 3.0 will include: A refreshed and unified user interface offering new audio capabilities and one-click connections; WebRTC support for Google Chrome, including a new user interface, new audio capabilities, and usability improvements for frictionless meeting entry. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here