Home

Firewall Management, IPv6 and You

Created 30 years ago, IPv4 has a 32-bit addressing scheme and can support approximately 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. Well aware that IPv4 addresses would eventually run out, the IETF created IPv6 as an upgrade to IPv4. IPv6 features a 128-bit addressing scheme, supports a mind-numbing amount of devices and delivers much needed security and performance improvements. While the IPv6 protocol has been around for along time, forklift upgrades to IPv6 were (rightly) seen as expensive and time consuming without much practical benefit. However, with the pool of IPv4 addresses completely exhausted, IPv6 is a trend whose time has come.

: REUVEN HARRISON, CTO, TUFIN TECHNOLOGIES; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 23 July 2012 09:22

British Armed Forces return 843 stolen artefacts to Kabul after nearly 20 years!

One of the returned artefacts Source: MoD

The British Armed Forces have returned 843 artefacts from the British Museum to the Afghan capital Kabul, almost 20 years after they were stolen and smuggled abroad.

The precious cargo, weighing just over two tonnes, left RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, on (12 July) after the British Museum and the Royal Air Force worked together to make the historic repatriation possible.

: The Editorial Team; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Monday, 23 July 2012 09:19

G4S’s shame: Aaaah! Mr Buckles and his inefficient team in a fit of bacchic frenzy buckle down to make up for the “humiliating shambles”...shouldn’t he be clearing up his desk to step aside?

Well, they say G4S continues to focus huge resource and effort on increasing the number of G4S personnel engaged in the Olympic security programme. True?

Yo! They say they are making good progress, with daily increases in the number of people working at Olympic venues as well as in the number of people who have completed the necessary training and related accreditation processes. Perhaps, this inefficient bunch does not yet know their so-called ‘staff’ are not reporting for duty. No ghost workers please! This Group4Scandals must publish the full list of those they claim to have employed for the British public to know how many people actually were at their designated duty posts throughout the period of the Games.

: JOHN ODEY ADUMA, EDITOR AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 20 July 2012 15:37

Passion at top level as Panasonic, IOC and OBS announce worldwide partnership for the first live 3D Olympic Games for London 2012

Vigilance can report that Panasonic Corporation, the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) have announced their partnership agreement to make the London 2012 Olympic Games the first ever live 3D Olympic Games. The partnership will produce the first HD 3D live broadcast in Olympic history, and will allow audiences around the globe to witness the world’s greatest sporting event in immersive 3D.