US Military Command Stops Zero Day Attacks

Learn the winning strategy that kept this US Military Command Center safe during a recent cyber attack exercise. Despite being on high alert, personnel accidentally unleashed malware that immediately broke through all their layers of defense - except for one.




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A network of electronic ears is quietly monitoring more than six square miles of high-crime Boston neighborhoods, listening for the telltale sounds of gunfire ripping, booming or crackling through the air.

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Buy, Lease--or Move to Cloud Computing?

Should you lease new hardware? Forget boxed software? Try the new cloud computing solutions? There are more options than ever -- some will save you money, and some could potentially cost you big.

| Feature | SaaS | 11/20/08 at 4:42 pm |


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You really can do more with less

Cutting costs in IT does not necessarily mean laying staffers off, deferring projects or reducing support. There are simple steps every company can take to significantly save money and improve the bottom line during these turbulent economic times.

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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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