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Report highlights 'massive waste' in federal IT spending

Half or more of the $70-$80 billion the U.S. government spends each year on Information Technology  and IT Security is wasted and actually leaves federal agencies in greater danger of breaches, lost and stolen hardware, the use of outdated software, missing software patches and other cybersecurity dangers, according to a report issued by the Canton, OH-based International Association of Information Technology. 

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Fortinet joins the VMware NSX Partner Ecosystem

Fortinet has joined the VMware NSX™ partner ecosystem and has also revealed its new FortiGate-VMX firewall appliance, which will enable greater security for customers within agile, elastic software-defined data centers based on VMware vSphere and VMware NSX virtualization platforms.

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Education professionals bottom of the class when it comes to security

72% of education professionals are not encrypting data on USB sticks and other portable devices, despite security being a growing concern.

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Shadow IT continues to give cause for concern

As cloud computing re-charts the path of enterprise IT, organisations are vastly underestimating the level of shadow IT in their cloud ecosystems. CipherCloud has unveiled the results of the industry’s first comprehensive study of cloud usage and risks from 2014, compiled from enterprise users in North America and Europe. 

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Advanced threat analytics addition

BeyondTrust has launched BeyondInsight Clarity, an advanced threat analytics capability that enables IT and security professionals to identify the data breach threats typically missed by other security analytics solutions. A standard capability of the BeyondInsight management, reporting and analytics console, Clarity pinpoints specific, high-risk users, accounts and assets by correlating low-level privilege, vulnerability and threat data from a variety of BeyondTrust and third-party solutions.

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Significant 82% rise in short duration DDoS ‘Flood’ attacks, a 297% increase in OpenVPN attacks...
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Survey of nearly 1,000 IT and security professionals shows 83% of organisations were targeted by...
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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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