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Overcome the Obstacles to a Secure Campus Network

Overview With thousands of users, endpoints, and applications active at all times, campus networks have become increasingly complex and difficult to protect. Academic IT professionals face new obstacles to help ensure that all devices logging in to the network are secure, and to identify and prevent network attacks. Having to monitor and control bandwidth in the face of new applications, file sharing, usage patterns, and even gaming applications just adds to the IT challenge. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to empower the IT staff with the resources they need to support complex, open academic environments.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems
Live Date	1st August 2007 01:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Network Security, Security Management

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