Features
ID theft: beyond fear to opportunity
In the last few months, it has become nearly impossible to read a magazine or watch television without coming across a story about identity theft. Identity theft is causing a significant amount of angst among consumers and businesses alike.
Jan 13 2006 7:54PM
Security
Efficiency and effectiveness
I had the pleasure of attending a session with a "guturist" recently — a gentleman by the name of Michael Tchong. He spends much of his time analyzing trends and patterns in technology, human behavior and other areas and uses that information to forecast future trends and directions. While his technology and business predictions were fascinating, one of the comments he made struck me as particularly appropriate to those of us in information security:
"If you can't do it for the same cost or lower — outsource it."
Jan 11 2006 10:26PM
Security
Company news
Sun Microsystems and Dartmouth College have announced a collaboration to increase security features in the
college’s OpenSolaris project.
Dartmouth will also develop a graduate-level operating system course based on the project, and experts from its Public Key Infrastructure Laboratory will explore the integration of OpenSolaris with trusted computing technology.
Jan 11 2006 9:54PM
Security
Threat of the month: DRM Rootkits
What is it?
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, describing any number of methods that content providers enlist to try to exercise control over what you can do with a digital document. Recently Sony BMG released a CD protected by a “rootkit,” a tool often used by hackers/malware authors to hide their tracks on a system.
Jan 11 2006 9:41PM
Security
Debate
IT security will get a bigger piece of the fiduciary pie in 2006
Jan 11 2006 9:29PM
Security
News Briefs
Breach law signed in N.Y.
Jan 11 2006 9:14PM
Security
Securing IT is innovative thinking
Nothing new is really going down in information security right now. At least that’s the take of some of SC’s Editorial Advisory Board members. There is no innovation, some say. The industry is stuck in a rut, say others. And it seems they’re not alone.
Jan 11 2006 8:50PM
Security
Review: LocalSSL Internet
Whatever your network and application security, keyloggers can deal a mortal blow to corporate security. Popular with rootkits and trojans, loggers capture keystrokes, revealing passwords, personal information and entire documents before anything can be encrypted or locked down in any other way.
Jan 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: McAfee AntiSpyware 2006
This product can either be bought as a standalone or as part of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite. If you opt for the Enterprise version, you also get centralized management using McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.02+ or McAfee Protection Pilot 1.1+. These applications let you manage, control and schedule updates and spyware scans over the whole network, so that you can control what’s going on.
Jan 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: CounterSpy Enterprise
CounterSpy Enterprise is built for remote management and administration. One of its main tasks is to distribute the agent to PCs on your network. You can either push the installation using Windows Domain rights, or create an MSI installer package – probably the preferred approach for large networks as they can use existing distribution tools.
Jan 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: CyberGuard WW 1000
This appliance is designed to monitor, scan and block internet-based threats. Its anti-spyware functions come from a range of different protection options, accessed through the appliance’s web front-end. For larger installations, you can also use the Global Command Center for centralized management.
Jan 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
