Articles for the ‘firewall’ Category

IPv6 Threat – Real or Perceived?

July 22nd, 2009

This Network World article talks about the hidden threat posed by rogue IPv6 usage. To a certain extent, this is a bit of a red herring and here’s why. For IPv6 to traverse the corporate network, the routers, switches and infrastructure components need to (a) support IPv6 and (b) it has to be enabled. Now, [...]

The Case for Application Enablement

July 10th, 2009

What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging and Wikis have in common? According to this article, they are increasingly used within enterprises with a quarter of organizations actually rolling out these types of tools across all departments, up from 12% in the previous survey. The survey also points out the blended use of these applications for both [...]

Applications are like dogs

June 16th, 2009

A recent survey assembled by RSA and IDG on the “hyper-extended enterprise” highlighted the challenges enterprises face as they move at light speed into the new applications landscape and two points stuck out. The first point was that enterprises need to rework their acceptable use policies and the second is that users need to be [...]