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Inside Cisco global security operations
Cisco's Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) provides threat information, vulnerability analysis, and mitigation solutions to enterprise customers. Staff and resources are at work around the world, including at 11 Threat Operations Centers. Network World visited Cisco's TOC in Austin, Texas, for an inside look at how the distributed security teams come together.

9/11 Anniversary: US gets serious about fixing emergency communications
At the 10-year mark of the nation's most devastating terrorist attack -- and one of its biggest disasters of any kind -- the United States is finally getting serious about overhauling its emergency response systems, particularly its workhorse 9-1-1 call centers.

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Tests/Buyer's Guides

Recoup with data dedupe
Backing up servers and workstations to tape can be a cumbersome process, and restoring data from tape even more so. While backing up to disk-based storage is faster and easier, and probably more reliable, it can also be more expensive.

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More news

Hooked on Google
Gibbs got cut off from parts of Google and it made him worry ...

Shady search casts iCloud over Apple
Yes, the story of Apple's police-aided, ham-handed hunt for a second lost iPhone prototype has received a fair amount of attention. However, the Keystone Kops-like caper deserves a lot more, and probably would have gotten it right off the bat were it not for two facts: The story reached critical mass over the Labor Day weekend and more than a few journalists were at first convinced that it had to be a hoax or a marketing stunt, because, well, how in the name of Woz could this have happened twice ... to Apple?

Warning: HIPAA has teeth and will bite over healthcare privacy blunders
Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators.

Snagging the video we paid for
Gibbs helps a friend get a tiny video clip that he should be able to get for free.

9/11 continues to influence IT strategy
Many companies had refined their IT disaster recovery programs prior to 9/11, but the attacks exposed a lack of attention to continuity of business operations.

Microsoft investigates its own mobile location practices
Microsoft said this week it is investigating a lawsuit's allegation that the camera application on Windows Phone 7 handsets collects location data from nearby Wi-Fi and cellular networks -- even if the user refuses permission to do so.

Competing for privacy in a social media world
For years, Facebook users have been clamoring for better privacy controls and clarity, while Facebook engineers oscillate between improvements and major privacy snafus. Every now and then a new wave of exasperated users cry out "That's it, I'm leaving". Up to now, users really didn't have anywhere to go after quitting, so they effectively quit the social media scene, self-ostracized (MySpace is equivalent to being exiled, perhaps worse). Now that they have somewhere else to go (Google+), Facebook is ramping up it's privacy controls and seems to be taking privacy more seriously. Let the privacy competition begin!

IBM, 3M team to glue together high-powered silicon bricks for servers, smartphones
IBM and 3M today said they will jointly develop a new line of adhesives they hope will let them make it possible to build commercial microprocessors composed of layers of up to 100 separate chips.

2 tools that can kill dead spots
Shaw reviews D-Link's Amplifi PowerLine AV 500 4-Port Gigabit Switch, Cisco's Linksys RE1000 Wireless-N Range Extender/Bridge.

IBM's futuristic storage aims for speed, density
IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.