ITworld Security

How to prepare for the CISSP

Sandra Henry-Stocker — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:12:04 +0000

The CISSP is a valuable certification, but it takes a lot more than just your many years of experience to prepare for it. You will likely have to learn about a lot of technology and processes that you’ve never worked with, some of it not especially current and all of it a lot less vendor-specific than you’ve ever imagined.

Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

IDGNS staff — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:53:16 +0000

Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.

Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

Melanie Pinola — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:16:10 +0000

Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else

Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

IDGNS staff — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:23:01 +0000

The U.S. National Security Agency has repeatedly tried to compromise Tor, the government-funded online anonymity tool, but has had little success, according to a new report in the U.K.'s Guardian.

Containerization Options: How to Choose the Best DLP Solution for Your Organization