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ManageEngine Network Management
Shannon Lewis

Silk Road Raising Questions About Government Spying (Again)

It’s a case that’s captured everyone’s attention — pirates, drug trafficking, hit men, government intrigue. By now, few people haven’t heard about Silk Road, run by the now notorious Dread Pirate Roberts, a pseudonym from the film “The Princess Bride.” It’s an interesting next chapter to perhaps the biggest news story of 2013 — Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA cyber snooping

ManageEngine Network Management
Shannon Lewis

This Week’s Five: Security Begins At Home

This Week’s Five  is a weekly column of five interesting reads from all over the web, with a different topic every week. This week, we explore  the risks of security breach and importance of data protection  in enterprise networks. Cyber thieves of all kinds have made the lives of the people in charge of data security miserable; except when they get caught.

Fortinet
Shannon Lewis

World’s Fastest Firewall: Fortinet FortiGate 5140

Fortinet and BreakingPoint conducted a performance test on the FortiGate 5140B loaded with the 5001B Blades. It was able to achieve the following: – 559 Gbps with 1518 byte packets & 45 Mpps – 557 Gbps with IMIX and 170 Mpps – 547 Gbps with 64 byte packets and 813 Mpps – 542 Gbps with 64K HTTP More than 3x faster than Juniper & Check Point 14x faster than SonicWALL and McAfee 28x faster than Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and WatchGuard Compared to the following competitors highest end product: Juniper SRX 5800 (150 Gbps) Check Point CP 61000 (200 Gbps) SonicWALL NSA E10800 (40 Gbps) McAfee & Crossbeam X80S (40 Gbps) Cisco ASA 5585-SSP60 (20 Gbps) Palo Alto Networks PA 5060 (20 Gbps) WatchGuard XTM 2050 (20 Gbps)