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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

Cloud optimization is the new initiative in 2024,” says Rajeev Nair, general manager of IT infrastructure and security at Cathay, a major airliner and cargo carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Hong Kong. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

The Parallax

But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE. While one of the few instances of a U.S.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Discover the Most Valuable Cyber Skills, Key Cloud Security Trends and Cyber’s Big Business Impact

Tenable

Learn all about the cybersecurity expertise that employers value most; Google Cybersecurity Action Team’s latest take on cloud security trends; a Deloitte report on cybersecurity’s growing business influence; a growth forecast for cyber spending; and more! Happy New Year! 1, 2022 and plucked the following nuggets.

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Q&A with John Masserini, Chief Information Security Officer at Millicom

Sailpoint

In this Q&A we spoke with John Masserini, chief information security officer at international telecommunications provider Millicom. Masserini talks with us about his interesting career path in information security, cloud security, and identity management. This is where the Information Security team comes in.

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From Solar Sunrise to Solar Winds: The Questionable Value of Two Decades of Cybersecurity Advice

Haft of the Spear

While the Ware Report of 1970 codified the foundations of the computer security discipline, it was the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection report of 1997 that expanded those requirements into recommendations for both discrete entities as well as the nascent communities that were growing in and around the Internet.

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The peculiar, persistent threat of bitsquatting

The Parallax

It was a serious enough problem in the early days of the commercial Internet for the United States to pass the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which contained measures to allow for prosecution of typosquatters. Is ad fraud a cybersecurity problem? More and more devices are connecting to the Internet every day.

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