Articles for 2009

A Key Benefit of Next-Generation Firewalls: More Sleep

December 16th, 2009

There’s a great article on SearchEnterpriseWAN about a Palo Alto Networks customer.  IDT spoke to SearchEnterpriseWAN about its experiences using next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and discussed some of the benefits and changes their team recognized in managing security across their enterprise.  IDT describes many of the usual benefits around application visibility and control [...]

A Subtle Shift in File Sharing Usage

December 9th, 2009

Since the inaugural Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring Edition, 2008), browser-based file-sharing usage in terms of frequency has steadily increased to the point where it now exceeds that of peer-to-peer file sharing.

The Danger of Overreacting….

November 20th, 2009

There is a somewhat erroneous assumption that the web provides anonymity – in particular when someone is posting a comment on an article. And then there is the old saying that knowledge is power. The challenge some people face is what to do with it.