Unique is the operator of Zurich Airport and offers a broad service portfolio to about 180 other companies, which also reside in the airport. Zurich Airport offers work for about 20,000 individuals and transports approximately 18 million passengers annually. Airport applications like air-traffic control and tower communications demand the highest uptime and need to be separated from operations like baggage distribution, business administration, video surveillance, and public WLAN traffic.

Cisco survey of employees shows internal telework program saves money and satisfies workers.

Installing Cisco’s VPN client on Windows 7 requires a bit of hacking and I found it increasingly unreliable on my connection to my company’s corporate network. It’s also a 32-bit only solution and, thanks to comments left on this blog, I’ve been trying out a couple of alternatives on my 64-bit Windows 7 release candidate (build 7100) machine, namely: ...

A chain of drive-in restaurants trolling for a new branch office router settled on a lower-cost, higher-performing option: a remote wireless LAN access point with a cellular module.

Palo Alto Networks is adding an SSL VPN gateway and traffic shaping to its firewalls, offering businesses another opportunity to reduce the number of devices they buy and maintain.

Analysts expect the cloud computing field to grow rapidly over the coming years as companies look to slash costs by outsourcing costly data center operations.

Why Cisco bites and VirtualBox rocks.

In my last post, I talked about several impending inflection points for information security. One of them was: More than half of our employees spend the majority of their working hours connected to networks we don’t own and don’t control (airports, hotels, home, wireless, 3G and so on) This brings me to my fifth security no-brainer (for the previous four see this post): Security and management tools for endpoints must work when the endpoints are network-connected, but not connected to the enterprise network.

New ASA 8.2 with botnet and new VPN functions, Major version of IPS firmware - V7.0. New SAFE Design Guides. Really important new features, buried in a press release.

Communications solutions and services provider BT has launched its Intelligent Virtual Private Network (iVPN) service in 172 countries, of which 18 are in Asia Pacific.