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RSS ntaEthernet Network Traffic Accelerators
White Paper As a result, Tehuti Networks has introduced an optimal solution called the Network Traffic Accelerator (NTA). The Ethernet migration to 10 Gbps has exceeded microprocessor performance and memory bandwidth. [08 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Vulnerabilities on UK company and public sector networks grew from 19 last year to 21 this year according to security analyst NTA Monitor and 87 per cent of data breaches could have been avoided by regular patching and other precautions according... [19 Jun 2008]
Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told
News Internet security consultancy company NTA Monitor says recent testing showed that organisations are still failing to ensure the smart phone devices are locked down. Roy Hills, technical director at NTA, said in a statement: "A hacker could... [10 Mar 2008]
Banks warned over IT security flaws
News A spokeswoman from security company NTA Monitor, which runs the survey using its own penetration testing software, told silicon.com that 32 per cent of the companies tested were in the high-risk category, although this figure was a decline from 61... [14 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: My home wi-fi network - in search of fun
Comment A press release earlier this month from security testing outfit NTA Monitor told me something I didn't know - not only is WEP not secure enough, it is "able to be cracked in just three seconds". When it comes to IT at home, it's nearly all about... [17 May 2007]
Intel Itanium 2 Processor Powers Reservations Portal for Nippon Travel Agency
White Paper Founded in 1905, Nippon Travel Agency (NTA) is Japan's oldest travel agency and one of its most successful ones. NTA also runs one of Japan's most popular travel-related web sites. Expecting the web site's rapid growth to continue, NTA needed more... [04 May 2006]
"Serious" DoS flaw found in Nortel VPNs
News NTA Monitor said it would withhold details of the vulnerability because it is so dangerous. Roy Hills, technical director of NTA Monitor said: "We believe this is a serious vulnerability. NTA is urging companies to install a software patch that was... [31 May 2005]
NTA Monitor UDP Backoff Pattern Fingerprinting White Paper
White Paper This paper discusses how it is possible to determine which implementation of a UDP service is being used from the retransmission backoff pattern. It uses IKE (Internet Key Exchange) as an example UDP service, which can be identified in this way... [22 Feb 2005]
Password hint: Think whether yours is good enough
Comment Roy Hills, technical director at security testing specialist NTA Monitor, adds: "Where unlimited password length is available use a sentence - either a phrase known to you or a film, song or book title. [04 Dec 2003]
5 years ago... One in five corporate servers hijacked by spam-mailers
News 10.11.98: Another set of shocking security statistics has emerged from an internet audit published this week by NTA Monitor. This morning silicon.com reported that NTA Monitor conducted an internet survey which found that over half of Europe's... [10 Nov 2003]
Banking websites are 'turkey shoot for hackers'
News The banking sector came off worst in a survey of 600 network security tests by consultancy NTA Monitor across a broad range of large blue-chip firms. Roy Hills, technical director at NTA Monitor, said in a statement that router flaws can allow a... [20 Aug 2003]
Chaos reigns in e-government roll-out
News Research from security testing company NTA Monitor shows government IT security to be worryingly slack, putting citizens' records at risk and holding up the e-services juggernaut. Roy Hills, NTA Monitor's technical director, said in a statement... [31 Jul 2003]
UK firms' security flaws an open door to hackers
News High-risk vulnerabilities have dived to six per cent from 19 per cent in 2001, according to the Fifth Annual Security Audit from NTA Monitor, which analysed more than 600 of its perimeter tests carried out for government and financial clients last... [02 Jun 2003]
IT helpdesks suffering user password hell
News The 2002 NTA Monitor Password Survey recently found that the typical intensive IT user now has 21 passwords, with some heavy users maintaining up to 70 passwords. Up to 80 per cent of calls received by helpdesk staff are from end users who've... [14 Jan 2003]
Security nightmare: How do you maintain 21 different passwords?
News The 2002 NTA Monitor Password Survey found that the typical intensive IT user now has 21 passwords, and has two strategies to cope, neither of which are advisable from a security standpoint: they either use common words as passwords or keep... [11 Dec 2002]
