Infrastructure, in the context of IT servers, is simply organized server support. It refers to how the servers are physically, logically, and/or functionally grouped together and includes the tools (mostly provided by vendors and occasionally custom-made by the system...
The idea of converged infrastructure revolves around forming a single optimized IT package by putting together several components to meet present-day business needs. According to HP, converged infrastructure meets these needs “by bringing storage, servers, networking,...
At least three serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) have been uncovered by security researchers at Google in 2014. This is quite serious because of the sheer number of computers that may potentially be targets of DDoS (click here to read earlier...
Intrusion detection systems (also called ID systems and IDS) have been, and are still constantly being developed in response to past and present attacks on many high-profile websites and networks, including those of Sony, eBay, Yahoo Mail, Google, Apple iCloud, UPS,...
“More creative and varied”, this is how Brad Casemore describes the current nature of DDoS attacks in a recent article in the TechTarget website. Casemore, who is research director at International Data Corporation (IDC), said that the burden is on the...