Today’s global industrial infrastructure includes thousands of electric utilities, water/wastewater management companies, oil and gas suppliers, chemical manufacturers and other facilities critical to daily functioning. The control and monitoring system networks that operate these infrastructures are among the most vulnerable targets for hackers, extortionists and disgruntled or ineffective employees.

In this paper, we look at network security technologies that are used to protect computer networks and mitigate the risks associated with viruses, worms and other network attacks.

This paper describes, at a high-level, how organizations can start to establish their security stance. It includes discussions on risk assessment, the security process and the considerations organizations should make to mitigate risks throughout the network.

The decision to block or allow consumer applications is seldom black or white. Policies vary according to application, security requirements, and network infrastructure.

In an economic slump, simplifying the network can help IT organizations do more with limited resources. By reducing its complexity, the network can be more effective, easier to operate and harder to make mistakes.

The Chhattisgarh state government links up agencies and 130 online services in India’s largest state-wide WAN, using Juniper Networks routing and security solutions.

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in focus on the energy efficiencies of the IT infrastructure, and more specifically the data center. Juniper Networks shares its experience.

Juniper Networks’ APAC Enterprise Solutions Director, Kang Eu Ween, believes network security will increase in 2009 as operations rely on the Internet to do more with less.

At a time when emphasis in government is on the elimination of silos and promotion of secure collaboration across and within agencies, government IT managers are under the gun to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right resources.

The Internet helps like-minded people connect and share information. IT administrators, already worried about peer-to-peer (P2P) networks - where millions of users share photos, software, music and video - now have to deal with social networking, which reaches even further.