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A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

Con job, pretexting, social engineering -- the art and science of manipulating human beings for nefarious ends -- goes back as far as the origin of the species. The techniques have been practiced and perfected by a rogue's gallery of flimflam artists, from legendary carnival operator P. T. Barnum to infamous FBI mole Robert Hanssen.

From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person.

The marriage of SonicWall and Aventail could result in a new network access control (NAC) vendor after the companies have the chance to assess and integrate their respective technologies.

Don and Charlene Zwonitzer know a thing or two about preparing for the unexpected. The knowledge comes from reclaiming a 1960s-era Atlas E Missile Silo and converting it into home sweet home - and eventually, they hope, a modern-day computer disaster-recovery facility.

The biggest challenge for Mohegan Sun's security and surveillance team? Catch the crooks before they leave the casino with the loot.