Features
Laptop theft, data exposure the result of poor mobile security management
Hearing news about yet another lost or stolen laptop and exposure of personal information is almost like having seen too many horror flicks. Shock has shifted to disbelief - plus numb outrage at the apparent inability of corporations and government to protect our private personal data.
Dec 5 2006 11:00AM
Security
Image spam still growing as threat to email security
Today one out of four emails on the internet is an image spam message. This is not because spammers have just realised the marketing benefits of captive colours. Instead, this is because the spammers have identified a weakness in many anti-spam systems and are moving diligently to maximise this opportunity by fully exploiting this weakness.
Dec 5 2006 10:00AM
Security
Review: Symantec IM Manager
Symantec IM Manager offers instant messaging management and security with support for public IM networks and enterprise IM platforms including AOL, Jabber, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Live Communications Server, Reuters, Yahoo! and GoogleTalk.
Dec 5 2006 9:00AM
Security
Patch management doesn't begin or end on Patch Tuesday
Many organisations appreciate the regularity of Patch Tuesday to better prepare and execute patch deployment. However, few organisations use the time prior to Patch Tuesday to efficiently prepare systems and people for rapid deployment.
Dec 5 2006 9:00AM
Security
Hot or not: Network embedded device security threats
Hot: Expect attackers to increasingly target networked, multifunction devices, such as high-end printers, scanners and fax machines, as these devices continue to grow more sophisticated and move away from proprietary operating systems and software.
Dec 5 2006 9:00AM
Security
No time for declarations of victory over compliance deadlines
US Financial institutions that meet the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) year-end compliance guidance for stronger customer data and transaction protection will be wise not to declare victory.
Dec 5 2006 9:00AM
Security
Review: Nortel VPN Gateway 3050
Setting up this product is not a simple task. Most of the setup is done via the command line, but the documentation does not help guide through this process very well. We found ourselves looking through different guides trying to locate configuration information. The absence of a quickstart card or a getting started guide makes this task even more difficult.
Dec 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Encryption prevents red faces
Every week brings another public announcement on some dramatic compromise of confidential, sensitive information. Sometimes, it's the loss, or theft, of a computer or hard drive or the hacking of supposedly confidential files containing individuals' private, identifying data, such as credit-card numbers or health records.
Nov 27 2006 1:31PM
Security
Review: Trend Micro IM Security
Trend Micro's IM Security suite is designed to sit on top of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 machine already running Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005. From the offset we got the feeling that this suite was going to be bolted down pretty tight. For starters, to activate the product you need to log into Trend Micro's website and use your registration key to get an activation code.
Nov 22 2006 12:00AM
Security
Industry views: Who's stealing your brand name?
It has been estimated that there are US$50 billion of illegal counterfeit and gray market goods sold on the internet annually and with the amazing growth in popularity of online auction sites and business-to-business (B2B) exchanges, all indications are that this trend is going to get worse before it gets better.
Nov 21 2006 10:23PM
Security
Two become one: Making sense of storage and security convergence
The merging of two IT industries always leads to the formation of a new buzzword, followed by a period of furious head-scratching as to what exactly it means. Integrators and their customers are best advised to wait on the sidelines until the dust settles, standards are set and commodification, that harbinger of good value, arrives.
Nov 15 2006 10:46AM
Storage
Market heats up after feeding frenzy
In an industry swimming with fish of all sizes, 2006 will remembered as the year in which the storage predators went to lunch. After its multi-billion dollar purchase of industry leader RSA Security, EMC is looking like the cat that got the cream.
Nov 15 2006 10:43AM
Storage
