Ten-gig networking has become mainstream a lot faster than anyone thought it would, largely driven by the tumbling cost of 10-gig ports. One of the communities that’s been caught napping in this price storm is the monitoring vendor community. Sure, every one of them has launched at least one ‘ten-gig capable’ system, but there are some serious questions as to whether they can really perform at 10Gbps. You only have to look at last quarter’s NSS labs results to see there’s a serious problem with scalability here.
Archive for December, 2011
How good is your cyber hygiene?
The National Cyber Security Summit in London last week provided some real food for thought. It’s a conference that we’ve actively supported over the last two years as we passionately believe international collaboration is one of the keys to successfully addressing the challenge of national cyber security.
This year’s stand out speaker was Major General Jonathan Shaw, head of the defence cyber operations group at the MoD. The MoD have taken responsibility for allocating the UK governments 650 million pound investment in national cyber security infrastructure and are thus under the national microscope.
Top Ten Cyber Security Trends for Financial Services in 2012
Booz Allen Hamilton recently produced an interesting research paper looking at the cyber threats faced by financial services. As an organisations focusing on vertical segments that have the fastest infrastructure and the most to lose if as and when it all goes wrong, it’ll be of no surprise that we’re very interested in banks.
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