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Most Firms misjudge volume of Malware Attack: reports Kaspersky

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to the 2013 Global Corporate IT Security Risks survey by  Kaspersky Lab , it has been revealed that most of the companies in India have underestimated the number of  new malicious programs  appearing daily, and only 6% had the realistic idea of how much the new malware appears every day. In terms of figure, 90% of global participants in the survey named a lower figure; 4% guessed too high and only 6% gave an accurate estimate. The survey also gave an overview of the ignorance of the companies against the cyber attacks. In addition, the lab survey revealed that an average 66% of companies had experienced at least one attack involving malware in the previous 12 months. The companies most frequently targeted in those attacks were located in South America (72%), Russia (71%), North America (70%), Asia-Pacific (68%) and Western Europe (63%). The highest levels of  malware awareness  were found among respondents in the Midd

Cisco revamps Its Cloud Environment with Citrix ADC

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To ensure superior network service positioning and performance,  Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) has integrated the  Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC)  into its Virtual and Fabric Cloud network services portfolio. This integration will help to simplify and  accelerate the  Cloud networks environment . The ADC controller will be tightly coupled into Cisco’s virtual networking framework. Ram Appalaraju, Vice-President, Products, Data Center Group, Cisco , stated, “With the addition of the Citrix NetScaler, Cisco is furthering our Cloud Network Services strategy.  By partnering with Citrix, we will be able to offer critical application delivery services to our virtual networking and cloud customers on the Nexus 1K platform.” Sunil Potti, Vice-President & General Manager, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix , said, “To provide the customers with an application aware network, Cisco and Citrix are collaborating to unify best-