More Network Security In Depth

Red Sky Alliance: An experiment in information sharing

Chris Camacho, information security officer at The World Bank Group in Washington D.C., explains how the Red Sky alliance helps member organizations safely share information.

Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android

1Password and KeePass lead the field in features, flexibility, browser integration, and ease-of-use

How security can add value to DevOps

Gene Kim, award-winning entrepreneur, researcher and founder of security firm Tripwire, walks us through his vision.

Security Manager's Journal: BYOD Planning Gets a Boost

A virtual desktop infrastructure will be the security key to reaching the CIO's goal of allowing personal devices on the corporate network.

2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ...

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

Which of today's newest shipping technologies will triumph over the long haul? Here are our best guesses

Car tech: The connected car arrives

The technology is still in its infancy, and there are technical, legal, safety and privacy issues to be worked out -- but we're entering the era of cars that connect to the Internet, to each other and to the public infrastructure.

High-speed Ethernet planning guide

Ten-gigabit Ethernet was so last year: Standards-based 40- and 100-gigabit Ethernet switches and routers are starting to show up in enterprise networks. Here's what you need to know.

Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left

SSL/TLS, the protocol that protects security of e-commerce, has taken a beating lately, with news items ranging from the violation of certificate authorities to the discovery of an exploit that beats the protocol itself.

Internet privacy: Cookies as a weapon

In November 2009 the European Parliament approved a directive on Internet privacy that, among other things, required user opt-in before websites could install cookies on the user's computer.

Keeping the DMZ Safe

A security manager has to be vigilant about what goes into the exposed portion of the company network, and he has to make sure it's all configured correctly.

Palo Alto PA-5060 is one fast firewall

Palo Alto's new firewall delivered performance 10 times faster than when we tested in 2008, and came close to its rated capacity of 20Gbps in firewall-only mode, according to our exclusive Clear Choice testing.

How We Tested the Palo Alto PA-5060 firewall

We assessed the performance of the Palo Alto PA-5060 firewall using three sets of tests, covering rates with mixed content, rates with static content, and TCP connection behavior. Two pairs of Spirent Avalanche 3100 GT traffic generator/analyzers, each equipped with two 10G Ethernet interfaces, served as the primary test tool.

Palo Alto earns short list status

Palo Alto Networks has injected excitement and innovation into the firewall market with its "next-generation" appliances that combine traditional firewalls, threat mitigation technologies such as anti-malware and intrusion prevention, and the new magic dust of application identification.

What is a next-generation firewall?

If there is a simple way to describe the difference between a next-generation firewall and a traditional firewall, it is "more detailed controls." In firewall terms, people talk about "widening the 5-tuple."

Wi-Drive: Good, but no cigar

The Kingston Wi-Drive is a neat idea but could do with some polishing.

EHRs are easy prey, but all is not lost

Christopher Burgess on writing a new prescription for health data trust.

DoD debuts brand-new, security-focused Linux for telecommuters

With all the hundreds of Linux distributions already available for practically every niche and purpose, users of the open-source operating system are accustomed to having a wealth of choices. Recently, however, the set of options got even bigger thanks to a brand-new, security-focused Linux distribution from none other than the U.S. Department of Defense.

Is your IT support making you vulnerable to hackers?

Data breaches are more prevalent and more costly than ever. Smarter technologies seem to breed smarter hackers, making it difficult for IT to keep up. But sometimes IT unwittingly helps the bad guys by improperly using core tools, such as remote support mechanisms.

Swartz, guilty as charged?

Aaron Swartz, founder of progressive action group Demand Progress, has been a bad boy, but how bad?