Cisco’s greatest hits, 2014 edition

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	Texas Instruments builds an alternative energy for the Internet of Things The Internet of Things is nothing without batteries and plugs. But it's possible to build a sensor network that uses harvested energy that comes from changes in temperature, vibrations, wind and light, as Texas Instruments will demonstrate at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Read More : Venafi Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More In this Issue Cisco's greatest hits, 2014 edition SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action The hottest wireless technology is now sound! Support for security tech tops iSoc's Africa plan for 2015 IDG Contributor Network: Why Nest could be your next best investment INSIDER 6 simple tricks for protecting your passwords Holiday blues: 49% of network managers, sysadmins expect to work the holidays Exploits for dangerous network time protocol vulnerabilities can compromise systems WHITE PAPER: NetBrain Technologies A Fully Dynamic Network Mapping Solution Accurate network diagrams are the Holy Grail in enterprise network management – most network teams know they should be documenting their networks but haven't found a universally good way of doing it. Learn More Cisco's greatest hits, 2014 edition A busy 30th year for the networking kingpin. Read More SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action The past year was a frantic one in the SDN industry as Cisco, Juniper and many others made strategic and tactical moves to either get out ahead of the curve on software-defined networking, or try to offset its momentum. Read More The hottest wireless technology is now sound! There's been a surge of innovations that harness sound waves to transmit data and do other creative things. Here's what's going on. Read More Support for security tech tops iSoc's Africa plan for 2015 It also will continue to help develop traffic exchange and DNS programs Read More WHITE PAPER: ForgeRock Identity As a Revenue Generator Identity is a fundamental requirement to digital growth. Businesses and organizations cannot properly take advantage of mobile, cloud, or Internet of Things (IoT) technologies without a scalable and repeatable identity strategy. View Now>> IDG Contributor Network: Why Nest could be your next best investment I never intended to buy a Nest thermostat. But as I was moving towards networked devices within my home, I had begun to really dislike my old-fashioned thermostat. That was one of the few devices I wished I could control from my phone.This is our second winter in the U.S., and unlike Europe, here we have a less efficient centralized indoor air system that heats or cools the entire house instead of just the room you are in.I also have to admit that I didn't enjoy the cold trek from my bed to the living room to change the temperature. On top of this, our current thermostat was way too limited and I could not schedule it the way I wanted. And worse: if we left home for vacation and forget to turn the system off, there was nothing we could do.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 6 simple tricks for protecting your passwords We all know that the current username-and-password system is broken. With Russian hackers reportedly sitting on over a billion passwords, and new breaches hitting the news on a regular basis, it's fair to assume that if hackers don't have your password already, they're about to."Most websites and companies require passwords that are at least eight characters long, contain lower and upper case characters, a number, and one or more special characters," says Vicent Berk, CEO of network security firm FlowTraq.These kinds of password policies have actually reduced security overall, argues Jacob West, CTO at HP Enterprise Security Products. "We need to bring some sanity back to our password policies," he says. "A human will never be able to meet these requirements."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Holiday blues: 49% of network managers, sysadmins expect to work the holidays Will you be stuck working or on-call as 2014 comes to a close? If so, you're not alone.This year, 49% of IT pros expect to work over the holidays, according to network management vendor Ipswitch. Nearly the same number (48%) will be thinking about work even if they're not called into the office.Ipswitch polled 206 IT pros in the U.S. for its second annual "Happy Holidays?" survey.Past experience shows it's necessary: 33% of IT pros said their company has experienced a major network outage during a holiday.More common for IT pros is the need to deal with employees' offsite IT issues. The most common problems employees experience when the office is closed for the holidays are: inability to access the network remotely (cited by 57%); poor application performance (18%); forgotten passwords (18%); and malfunctioning laptops (7%).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Exploits for dangerous network time protocol vulnerabilities can compromise systems Remote code execution vulnerabilities in the standard implementation of the network time protocol (NTP) can be exploited by attackers to compromise servers, embedded devices and even critical infrastructure systems that run UNIX-like operating systems.The flaws, which can be exploited by sending specially crafted packets to machines running a vulnerable version of the NTP daemon (ntpd), pose a greater threat to systems where the service runs under a highly privileged user account such as root.However, even if the ntpd user has limited privileges, attackers could leverage other privilege escalation flaws to gain root access after exploiting the NTP flaws.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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