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New products of the week 11.09.2015

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.Okta Mobility ManagementKey features: Updates include support for Android for Work, PCs, OS X, as well as private app store capabilities and a Safari iOS extension. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.09.2015

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.Okta Mobility ManagementKey features: Updates include support for Android for Work, PCs, OS X, as well as private app store capabilities and a Safari iOS extension. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

14 DRaaS vendors that will rescue you in a pinch

To the rescueImage by Flickr: Beverley Goodwin According to a Gartner report, the Disaster Recovery as a Service market originally emerged to address IT organizations' need to support increasingly aggressive recovery-time targets and more frequent and lower-cost testing while understaffed, or without requiring a significant time commitment by existing IT staff.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.02.2015

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.FullContactPricing: FullContact is free to download and use. FullContact Premium is available by subscription — two subscription options:  FullContact Premium monthly for $9.99; FullContact Premium annually for $99.99To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 11.02.2015

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.FullContactPricing: FullContact is free to download and use. FullContact Premium is available by subscription — two subscription options:  FullContact Premium monthly for $9.99; FullContact Premium annually for $99.99To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

6 tips for your security awareness training

Keep a sharp eye out forImage by ThinkstockSecurity experts remind us that awareness is an ongoing effort. Here are some best practices for keeping your organization educated and aware year-round.Get the C-Suite involvedImage by ThinkstockTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Examining 5 Presidential candidates’ support from tech company employees

Money talksImage by WikimediaIn a review of the Presidential candidates’ latest campaign finance reports, which list employee donations by company, we found seven tech companies that were common across most of the five candidates examined. Here’s a look at how much employees have contributed since the campaigns of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson began.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Techies back Democrats in Presidential race

It will be many months before presidential candidates face their respective conventions, but for the time being the Democrats are winning the wallets of technology workers. Finance reform bars corporations from directly funding campaigns, but that doesn’t stop individuals from backing candidates of their choice. And according to Network World’s analysis of candidates’ most recent filings to the Federal Elections Commission, those technology workers donated far more to Democratic presidential candidates than did their Republican counterparts since the inception of each candidate’s campaign. The two frontrunning Democrats outpaced the three Republicans examined: $393,444 to $36,588. Network World reviewed the campaign finance reports of the two candidates from each party who are currently leading the polls and also included former HP chief Carly Fiorina.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.26.2015

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.DeceptionGrid version 5Key features: DeceptionGrid version 5 brings expanded forensic and analytics capabilities to reduce the time-to-breach detection of attackers that have penetrated a network. New real-time automation provides a broad view of an attacker’s activities with detailed event forensics, allowing the entire attacker Kill Chain to be analyzed and presented in a timeline that provides a visual overlay of the attack. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.26.2015

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.DeceptionGrid version 5Key features: DeceptionGrid version 5 brings expanded forensic and analytics capabilities to reduce the time-to-breach detection of attackers that have penetrated a network. New real-time automation provides a broad view of an attacker’s activities with detailed event forensics, allowing the entire attacker Kill Chain to be analyzed and presented in a timeline that provides a visual overlay of the attack. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.19.2015

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.Attunity CloudBeamKey features: Attunity’s cloud data transfer solution now transfers data between enterprise data centers and Hadoop running on the AWS Cloud, enabling companies to leverage Big Data analytics with Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR). More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.19.2015

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.Attunity CloudBeamKey features: Attunity’s cloud data transfer solution now transfers data between enterprise data centers and Hadoop running on the AWS Cloud, enabling companies to leverage Big Data analytics with Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR). More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.12.2015

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.JIRA Service Desk 3Key features: now a standalone product built on the JIRA platform with added ITIL-ready capabilities. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.05.2015

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.App 360 Appliance PLUSKey features: App 360 Appliance Plus is a turnkey solution for enterprises seeking high reliable and future-proof migration of their mission-critcal apps and servers to public and/or private clouds, with built-in data protection. App360 Appliance PLUS eliminates struggles with hardware, virtualization and cloud setup. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

9 ways to be tech-ready for the next hurricane

Hurricane preparednessImage by NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterWith Hurricane Joaquin stirring up high winds and rain off the East Coast, FEMA has released a set of guidelines that might help you if the storm system hits. This slideshow provides you with tech guidelines during the storm.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2015’s most dangerous celebrity web searches

DJ Armin van BuurenImage by Jorge Mejía PeraltaElectronic Dance Music (EDM) DJ Armin van Buuren replaces comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel as Intel Security’s most dangerous celebrity to search for online. For the ninth year in a row, Intel Security researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal which of them generates the most dangerous search results.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cybersecurity hall of fame names inductees

Incoming class The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has announced its recent class of inductees. In noting them we also highlight some of the past winners. The hall of fame recognizes the history and contributions of pioneers, innovators and educators who influenced the industry. The inductees are chosen by a board of advisers. Pictured from left to right are: Susan Landau, Steven Lipner, Cynthia Irvine, Ron Ross, and Jerry Saltzer is in front.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 09.21.2015

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.Live Segments Key features: improves the process for both segmenting large promotional email lists and implementing behavioral data to create personalized communications, while automating the labor intensive processes around segmentation, data analysis and product recommendations. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 09.21.2015

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.Live Segments Key features: improves the process for both segmenting large promotional email lists and implementing behavioral data to create personalized communications, while automating the labor intensive processes around segmentation, data analysis and product recommendations. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

7 security and privacy concerns at the polls

Presidential raceImage by ReutersA recent poll by Wakefield Research delved into the psyche of the American voter asking them many questions about who will lead them through cyberspace the next four years. According to the survey, which was sponsored by PKWARE, the majority (64 percent) of registered U.S. voters believe it is likely that a 2016 presidential campaign will be hacked.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here