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Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. However, the access points are only vulnerable if they are running vulnerable software in URWB mode, Cisco said. Cisco said.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24 The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. What do human firewalls bring to the company table?

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018.

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Hardware-focused startup studio Conduit Venture Labs expands reach to support outside companies

GeekWire

Conduit Venture Labs Photos) Conduit Venture Labs , a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its reach with Conduit Beacon , a service offered to outside founders, companies, VCs and research entities to help them execute and scale.

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5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

CIO Business Intelligence

Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. And to be fair to the now-retired Cappuccio, no one could have predicted game-changing events like a global pandemic in 2020 or the release of ChatGPT in 2022.

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What is a firewall?

Network World

billion by 2020. Most firewalls are deployed as network hardware that processes traffic and software that allow end users to configure and manage the system. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. What is a firewall?

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