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Featured Articles » The Security Benefits of Data Classification It's said that today's businesses operate in an information economy. If that's true, then data is their hard currency. Intellectual property, customer lists and patents are just a few of the critical digital assets that create business differentiation and must be protected at all costs. » 373K Taps Internap for Bare Metal IaaS Internap was noted for its route optimized bandwidth offerings, which Gartner said may be a good choice for customers with latency-sensitive applications such as the voice services 373K offers. This partnership ensures 373K is able to meet the voice service quality demands of its customers. » Device Owners Be Warned - Hack at Your Own Risk Hacking in an interesting practice. Criminals use the activity on a daily basis to manipulate software and look for vulnerabilities in networks in order to gain access to proprietary information. The activity can be very lucrative, especially for those who are good at it without getting caught. » Scale Up Your Defenses Against DDoS Attacks The January 2016 DDoS attack against the BBC may have set a new record. The group that launched the attack, New World Hacking, claims to have reached a top speed of 602Gbps during the attack. Even if the group is exaggerating, there is no doubt that the size, frequency, and severity of DDoS attacks are on the rise. As the attacks scale up, enterprises need mitigation systems that scale as well. » Synaptics Announces New Technology Designed to Thwart Fingerprint Spoofing Understandably, Synaptics does not go into great detail about how this technology works other than it uses something called 'liveness' detection. This would detect the difference between a fingerprint coming from its rightful owner and a fingerprint from an image or copy attached to a finger. » Biggest Story to Watch in High-Tech: Shift to Services The biggest high-tech story to watch is the shift by traditional hardware, software, and platform companies to deliver their offerings as services to business customers and consumers. Top Stories » Nomadix Upgrades Service Engine to v8.6 » Report: Argentina's BPO/ITO Efforts Now Appear on Track » eCommerce Fraud Attempts Growing at Alarming Rate » Google Launches Beta Release of Cloud Vision API » Top 3 Tips for Better Password Security TMCnet Free Premium Content » Colocation: The Essential Buyer's Guide » Understanding And Mitigating DNS DDoS Attacks » Five Ways To Prepare Your Infrastructure For Disaster Featured Channels » Business VoIP » Enterprise Cloud » Software Licensing Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.     RESOURCES   Whitepapers Publications Videos Events Webinars Blogs Free eNewsletters

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