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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO Business Intelligence

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 The Tier 4 data center certificates are awarded by Uptime Institute and not “Uptime Council.”

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Cisco urges patching flaws in data-center, SD-WAN gear

Network World

Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offering customers should deal with now. On the data center side, the most critical – with a threat score of 9.8

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Internet upgrade part of a move towards 400/800G connectivity

Network World

Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. The previous capacity of the DE-CIX network was 100G, which means that data centers running at 400G need to split the signal. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

The basic concept behind ZTNA overall is to make sure that all access is authenticated and that there is no implied trust, just because a user has access to a network. Shah explained that when a user connects to the network, Alkira does an authentication check. That check validates a number of different device attributes.

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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Network World

Additional features such as encryption and authentication further strengthen Wi-Fi security. The evolution of Wi-Fi 7 has included more than a decade of spectrum changes and standards updates.

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Nile dials-up AI to simplify network provisioning, operation

Network World

The security features include built-in access control for basic authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA). All traffic is forwarded to a centralized policy enforcement point for precise inspection and routing.

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Cisco issues critical security warnings its Data Center Network Manager

Network World

Cisco this week issued software to address multiple critical authentication exposures in its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software for its Nexus data center switches.