The cyber arms race taking place now

A report recently released by McAfee indicated that more than half of cyber security experts believe that a global arms race is already on with damage or disruption to critical infrastructure as the greatest single threat from cyber-attack.

The report was created for McAfee by the Security & Defence Agenda as "an independent think-tank to produce the most extensive report on Cyber Defense." The SDA had in-depth interviews with some 80 world-leading policy-makers and cyber-security experts in government, business and academia in 27 countries and anonymously surveyed 250 world leaders in 35 countries.

Cyber-readiness in the United States, Australia, the UK, China and Germany all ranked behind small countries like Israel, Sweden and Finland. By the numbers, here are some of the report's findings:

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Is Local Management valuable when you have redundant systems?

When talking with someone for the first time about Local Management, sometimes they jump to a quick objection that goes something like this:

"I don't need out-of-band access for my network infrastructure. I have a redundant architecture."

Sometimes people go on to detail how robust their redundancies are by offering up the speeds and feeds of the backup hardware and outside network connections. Does this sound like you? If so, you really need to read on.

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Uplogix completes FIPS 140-2 certification process

The code was validated, the hardware inspected, and the paperwork completed months ago. Now Uplogix has the final approval for the FIPS 140-2 Certification. No longer are the Uplogix 430 and 3200 Local Managers "In Process" with NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) for accreditation of cryptographic modules for secure communication on government computing platforms. They are fully compliant. Want to know more about the differences between a standard Uplogix Local Manager and the FIPS-compliant versions?

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What are your top tech priorities for 2012?

Gartner recently asked over 2,300 CIOs around the world to name their top business and technology priorities for 2012. The survey showed that overall budgets will remain essentially flat in North America and Europe, although Latin America expects an increase of almost 13%.

The top ten tech priorities list has changed somewhat since last year with a major move by Virtualization and some shake-ups in Analytics & Business Intelligence and Collaboration/Workflow. Here is the full list:

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