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Zero Day to Real-Time: How to combat real-time cybercrime with community threat intelligence by McAfee, Inc.
wars escalate. According to McAfee Avert Labs, malware will increase in volume by 300 percent in 2008. Targeting and one-time use technologies are driving the numbers as cybercriminals maximize profits. This complex, ever-changing malware delays indentification and slows delivery of...
Best Approach to Disable or Terminate Rogue USB Drives by IronKey
This document talks about a key component, IronKey Silver Bullet Service™, the only remote deny, disable, destruct capability for managing USB flash drives over the Internet. Companies and government agencies are rushing to deploy encryption technology to protect against lost and...
Active Anti-Malware Protection: Self-Defending IronKey Flash Drives Stop MalWare and Viruses from Spreading to Computers and Networks by IronKey
Read this paper to discover why only IronKey - with a unique end-to-end security that extends from the Cryptochip to firmware to services - is able to deliver a complete range of anti-malware controls down to the hardware level. Conventional USB flash drives and other removable storage devices can allow...
Eliminate the Risk of Lost or Stolen USB Flash Drives and Malicious Insiders by IronKey
The IronKey Enterprise Service allows easily manage thousands of IronKey Enterprise devices and enforce device-specific policies, including password strength, password retry limits and on-board portable applications. The IronKey Enterprise solution combines hardware-encrypted...
Motorola Brings LTE to Life on the Streets of Barcelona by Motorola, Inc.
At the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, Motorola, Inc. announced it has deployed a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network over which it will demonstrate live LTE experiences moving through the streets of Barcelona for the duration of Mobile World Congress 2009. At the Mobile World Congress...
The Drivers to Long Term Evolution (LTE) by Motorola, Inc.
LTE is the next generation mobile broadband network from the 3GPP standards group (GSM/UMTS/HSPA). This paper will look at what is driving the development of LTE, how this will impact future LTE subscriber experiences, and ultimately how it will help drive operators businesses...
Improving the mobile experience through solid state drive by Intel Corporation
Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce. Intel IT...
Webcast: Speech-Driven Packaged Applications Can Help Reduce Telecom and IT Costs by Nuance
more about a solution that drastically reduces switchboard staffing costs and improves efficiency. There are probably a number of factors driving your need for a new mobile call center solution, including cutting telecom and IT costs and the need for higher service levels. Join this webcast...
Reduce Your Telecom and IT Costs with a New Speech-Driven, Mobile Call Center Solution by Nuance
more about a solution that drastically reduces switchboard staffing costs and improves efficiency. There are probably a number of factors driving your need for a new mobile call center solution, including cutting telecom and IT costs and the need for higher service levels. Join this podcast...
SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP America Inc
The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study. The Center for...
Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency by SearchDataCenter
throttle uneconomic application demand and re-balance IT's economics. Rapid and continuing growth in the number of servers being installed is driving the biggest global boom in data center construction history. The OpEx and CapEx costs of these new data centers are creating significant...
Get the Facts on Information Availability: How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations by Vision Solutions
This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. Every manufacturer--from heavy-duty industrial and automotive to consumer products and packaged goods--faces one...
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP America Inc
Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle. Why are we talking about blueprints? After...
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations: Sales Opportunity Blueprinting by SAP America Inc
Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle. Leadership teams in today's strongest sales...
Nine Ways to Cut Costs While Keeping the Lights On by Wipro Technologies
Amidst a macroeconomic global recession, companies are looking for ways to reduce their costs by 25% or more. The following paper represents the top set of cost-reduction initiatives that Wipro clients have effectively implemented. "It's no surprise a lot of clients want to rapidly and dramatically...
Increase Productivity by Providing Notebooks Beyond the Road Warriors by Intel Corporation
Read this Forrester analyst report to learn how increased notebook deployments beyond just the road warriors and to the entire enterprise can benefit your company. Forrester's study yielded four key findings:
  • Enterprises are becoming increasingly dependent on notebooks
  • Remote management and
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Portable Panic - The Evolution of USB Insecurity by Lumension
As USB devices have evolved into useful storage media, they've also turned into a security nightmare for organizations. The usage of USB devices should be encouraged and embraced today in our tightening economy to aid in the reduction of operating costs. Take control of the removable media threat by...
The Perils of Using the Wrong Approach to USB Flash Drive Security by IronKey
This paper examines how the IronKey flash drive uses hardware-based encryption and key management within a highly secure framework to eliminate physical and logical avenues of attack. A seemingly endless string of headlines trumpeting high-profile data breaches has helped to make...
Avoiding Disk Bottleneck in Data Domain's Deduplication File System by Data Domain
This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems. This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce...
The Key to Optimizing VoIP Deployments by Blue Coat
To optimize VoIP deployments, Blue Coat is driving a new generation of solutions designed to accelerate converged IP voice and data networks. With Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network (ADN...
Enhanced Spend Management with Improved Data Quality by DataFlux Corporation
In today's current economy, companies are all looking for new ways of squeezing more savings out of their operations in traditional and non-traditional areas such as purchasing, not only as an area of cost savings, but one that has potential to drive competitive advantage. Listen in as Jim Hart and Dan...
Lost Laptops: More Expensive Than You Think by Intel Corporation
New research quantifies the primary factors driving the cost of a lost or stolen laptop New research quantifies the primary factors driving the cost of a lost or stolen laptop
What is Virtualization? by Dell and VMware
In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. In the...
Q&A: The Insider Threat and Mobile Devices--Employees Evade and Ignore Security Policies by IronKey
In this informative podcast, learn how to avoid insider attacks. Recent research from the Ponemon Institute outlines how employee "rates of non-compliance" continue to increase and how deploying managed USB flash drives aids in enforcing current policies. Insiders represent one of the...
The Intelligent Services Edge -- Driving Service Innovation with Versatile Edge Routing Platforms by Juniper Networks, Inc.
Service providers are not seeing the increase in profitability that you might expect from recent traffic growth. The competition is fierce and requires service providers to constantly reinvest in their network infrastructure. Read this paper to learn how Juniper can help reduce the cost and...
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Granite State making peace with 'war driving' by Edward Hurley, News Writer
to "Live free or die."

That's about it.

So the Granite State isn't as famous (or infamous) as, say, the Golden State, but soon this sliver of New England may become a hotbed for "war driving."

Uber-populated, high-tech areas like Manhattan and San Francisco may seem like more fertile ground for war driving, the... More...

Apr 29, 2003
Wi-Fi by Jack Hanlin and Derek Walker
to access by unauthorized users who use the access as a free Internet connection. The activity of locating and exploiting security-exposed wireless LANs is called war driving. An identifying iconography, called war chalking, has evolved. Any entity that has a wireless LAN should use security... More...
Jul 15, 2002
Price, convenience to drive wireless messaging by Mark Brunelli, News Writer
offices managers are still not embracing the technology."

Santella said that to prove a point about wireless security, a co-worker embarked on what he called "war driving." The co-worker drove around in a Jeep with a wireless-enabled laptop and mapped all the hotspots he was able to connect to... More...

May 11, 2004
Step-by-Step Guide: Five Bluetooth security basics
Phone manufacturers released a patch when this threat was announced, but it has not been determined if Bluetooth-enabled PCs are vulnerable.

War nibbling is a take-off on war driving. Instead of cruising for open 802.11 networks, nibbling refers to finding unsecured or unpatched Bluetooth... More...

May 10, 2005
Face-off: Enterprise wireless LANs
Visa check cards, Saran Wrap -- but that doesn't mean it's my IT department's responsibility to provide them for me. Ubiquity and flexibility just aren't attributes capable of driving a major technology overhaul in most corporations these days.

I grew up in New England, where Puritan ethics still hold... More...

Jan 7, 2004
Related Definitions
Stratellite By John P. Greene
HAZMAT response, providing connectivity to first responders for disaster recovery and supplying bridge connectivity for post-war or conflict infrastructure replacement.

Tethered flights of a prototype Stratellite 125 feet in length are scheduled for late August of 2006 in the Mojave Desert north of Los... More...

Aug 24, 2006
polite cell phone
and deactivate the phone at such timesMeasure ambient illumination and activate or deactivate the phone on that basis Detect driving data so the phone will not respond to calls if the driver is braking hard, manipulating other controls, or making numerous sharp turnsPrevent a call if the user is currently... More...
Feb 16, 2006
Airborne Internet
CNS) and would also be useful to businesses, private Internet users, and government agencies, especially the military. In time of war, for example, an airborne network might enable military planes to operate without the need for a communications infrastructure on the ground. Such a network could also allow... More...
Jul 15, 2005