As IT organizations confront the imminent prospect of a network upgrade to deal with the demand for increased bandwidth being created by everything from mobile to cloud computing and back again, Cisco Systems is making a case for increased security being thrown in as part of the bargain.

One of the more subtle aspects of and bigger lessons learned from IPv6 from a security perspective is how easy a technology developed to solve a specific problem can wind up being misappropriated.

A new survey finds nearly six in 10 information security pros are using inadequate tools to protect their enterprise servers.

While most of the focus on cybercrime these days has been on financially motivated attacks,  “hactivism” has re-emerged as the primary motivation behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

There are a lot of easy answers to the problem of attacks on your network. You’ve heard them: “Get a new firewall,” or, “Get a better firewall like an NG firewall.” And of course always the tried and true, “If you’d configured your firewall properly, you wouldn’t have had this problem.”