vpns in news
Mobile working: Get a strategy, businesses told
News Enterprises must also ensure security is not neglected as their workforce becomes increasingly dispersed, said Blowers, and should adopt a "layered approach", making use of technologies such as firewalls, VPNs and intrusion detection/prevention... [03 Oct 2007]
VPNs, IP telephony biggest homeworking headaches
News VPN (virtual private network) is seen as the hardest remote working technology to manage by IT managers, claims research. It was chosen by 37 per cent of respondents as the remote working technology that causes the most headaches in a survey... [11 Jun 2007]
Use tech not your car, businesses told
News By using common technologies such as wi-fi and VPNs, it is now much easier for people to work from home. The RAC Foundation is urging more people to consider working from home to cut CO2 emissions, reduce congestion and save businesses money. [26 Oct 2006]
Pipex WiMax experiment: The results are in
News It will be important for SMEs, professionals who work at home, people using VPNs, people using VoIP. Pipex has completed the first phase of its WiMax experiment, saying the results exceeded expectations. [15 Aug 2006]
Equant trumpets outsourcing contract wins
News In addition it covers security and more communications-related activities such as hosting, messaging, IP VPNs and voice, whether fixed or mobile. Equant has this week announced two large network and IT outsourcing contracts, one with Universal... [15 Mar 2006]
What future for the wireless Square Mile?
News Peter Bennett, deputy City surveyor for the Corporation of London, said he expects City workers to start using the network for logging onto company VPNs, rich data access to media and presentation, and even using voice over IP. [07 Mar 2006]
Computer crime tab costs US business dear
News Intrusion prevention or detection systems were used by 23 per cent and VPNs, or virtual private networks, by 46 per cent. The FBI calculated the price tag by extrapolating results from a survey of 2,066 organisations. [20 Jan 2006]
Broadband, mobile, VoIP: The next-gen of telecom
News According to a study from Infonetics Research, broadband internet, metro ethernet and IP VPNs are the technologies causing the highest growth in IP traffic for telecoms carriers in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America - and thus should be... [11 Jan 2006]
End-point security clamour sparks Blue Coat deal
News Speaking during a webcast to announce the deal, NeSmith said companies have also invested heavily in ensuring data travelling between networks and PCs is encrypted and secure - through the use of SSL VPNs, for example - but have so far paid little... [04 Jan 2006]
Tech winners and losers as broadband spend jumps
News DSL technology is now widely used to connect small sites and homeworkers, providing the connectivity for secure IP-based virtual private networks (VPNs) and even Ethernet, said Hopkins. Hopkins added: "Point-to-point Ethernet is growing very... [13 Dec 2005]
BT to buy Infonet Germany
News Infonet Deutschland has 400 customers to which it supplies services including web access and VPNs, and is valued at more than €19m. BT has announced it has bought the remainder of Infonet Deutschland. [29 Sep 2005]
Gartner: Don't believe the tech security myths
News He then moved on to debunk the view that "Warhol worms" will make the internet unusable for business traffic and VPNs (virtual private networks). Endpoint software from AirDefense, AirMagnet and T-Mobile thwarts evil twins, said Williams, while... [25 Jul 2005]
Equant wins $100m STMicroelectronics contract
News The multi-year move follows a deal signed in 2003 for Equant to provide customised IP VPNs - for secure networking - to the chip-maker. Equant has landed more than $100m in business from European chips company STMicroelectronics. [15 Jun 2005]
"Serious" DoS flaw found in Nortel VPNs
News A security research company is warning Nortel Networks customers to upgrade their virtual private network (VPN) routers after it found a serious vulnerability in them. The denial of service vulnerability enables hackers to crash IPSec VPN machines... [31 May 2005]
Equant's $4.5m imperial lather
News PZ Cussons has signed a five-year, $4.5m agreement with Equant for its networking needs between sites in a dozen countries. The consumer goods company, known for brands such as Imperial Leather, will employ virtual private network (VPN) technology... [19 May 2005]
