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Events & Seminars
MARCH
SANS Boca Raton 2006
March 20-25
This event presents two week-long courses, taught by leading instructors, dealing with IT security. One program focuses on the language and underlying theories of computer security, while the other more advanced course discusses hands-on network intrusion detection and traffic analysis.
Venue: Boca Raton, Fla.
Contact: www.sans.org/
Mar 14 2006 8:39PM
Security
The 2006 SC Awards, a homage to excellence
As part of the IT security industry’s leading global awards program, the SC Magazine Awards U.S. Gala was organized to honor the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats confronted in today’s corporate world.
Mar 14 2006 4:36PM
Security
Security on the shop floor
Network security has always been an important consideration in office environments but it has been largely overlooked in manufacturing. But as the shop floor has become increasingly linked to the back office and with the expansion of industrial Ethernet, production managers are now taking network security more seriously.
Mar 9 2006 10:23AM
Security
It’s time for us all to raise our game
IT, and IT security in particular, are at an interesting crossroads, and due for a lot of changes over the next few years. If we are honest, the IT industry has an appalling record, and is littered with projects that have failed to complete or to meet requirements. The public sector especially has a shameful track record, with practically every Government department with its own horror story to tell.
Mar 8 2006 5:16PM
Security
Matt Watchinski, Vulnerability researcher, Sourcefire
I’ve been penetration testing since I was about 15 years-old. I got interested in these things in the days of bulletin boards and the 1,200 baud modem when you had to figure out things for yourself or talk to others on the boards.
Mar 8 2006 4:20PM
Security
Swapping black hats for white
IT security is one of the few professions where getting caught in the act, so to speak, can be the start of a great new career. Recently, there have been a number of high-profile cases of “poacher turned gamekeeper”, with virus writers being hired almost from the court steps.
Mar 8 2006 9:29AM
Security
Avoiding the proverbial straw house
Amature security model is like a soundly built house. A security pro at a large information management provider noted that such a model will help companies to establish more proactive security profiles that rely little on reactive, tactical approaches to security, like patch management. He briefly explained the concept at the recent Cyber Security Summit in Florida.
Mar 7 2006 7:53PM
Security
News briefs
ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $10 million in fines, the largest civil penalty ever imposed by the Federal Trade Commission, and $5 million in consumer compensation, to settle charges that the data broker’s record-handling procedures violated consumers’ privacy rights.
“The message to ChoicePoint and others should be clear: Consumers’ private data must be protected from thieves,” said Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the FTC.
The company admitted last year that a data breach compromised the personal information of at least 163,000 customers, with 800 becoming identity theft victims, the FTC said.
Mar 7 2006 7:45PM
Security
