Infosec mourns over Howard Schmidt, who helped make the country a safer place

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Mar 03, 2017
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Infosec mourns over Howard Schmidt, who helped make the country a safer place
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As we have seen, capacity management tools are inappropriate for assuring application performance. What is needed in the modern data center is a real-time control system that solves the intelligent workload management problem that was left out of the design of the software-defined data center with the advent of virtualization. Read More

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Infosec mourns over Howard Schmidt, who helped make the country a safer place

Howard Schmidt advised both President Brack Obama and George W. Bush on cybersecurity. He was a CSO at Microsoft and a CISO at eBay. He led several industry groups, and wrote books on cybersecurity. But when security professionals remember him, it is not so much for his technical accomplishments as for the impact he had on the people around him. He is remembered as a mentor, a communicator, and an educator Read More

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Pence used private mail for state work as governor, account was hacked

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reportedly used a private email account to transact state business when he was governor of Indiana, and his AOL account was hacked once, according to a news report. Read More

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Slack bug paved the way for a hack that can steal user access

One bug in Slack, the popular work chat application, was enough for a security researcher to design a hack that could trick its users into handing over access. Read More

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Free decryption tools now available for Dharma ransomware

Researchers have created decryption tools for the Dharma ransomware after someone recently leaked the encryption keys for it. Read More

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As organizations scale, planning for greater application workload demand is critical. IT cannot afford to be seen as a bottleneck to successful business growth. Planning ahead is key, but as this ebook will discuss, equally important is the foundation you use to make projections. Read More

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