Features
Meeting the challenges of securing your business
Events in the news during the past few years have taught us all many lessons. However, the primary lesson that all businessmen should have learned, is the need to keep their businesses secure in an ever changing and increasingly malevolent world. From fears about Y2K to the tragic events of September 11, the need for heighten security is readily apparent. Heightened alert is a worldwide status.
Jun 15 2004 12:21PM
Security
In search of a better approach to secure e-mail
The volume of internet traffic generated by an ever-increasing number of applications, including e-mail, Instant Messaging (IM), web services, Voice over IP (VoIP), and other network transactions is growing unabated. Together with these applications has come an associated proliferation in the number of user identities within enterprises – e-mail addresses, IM handles, VoIP telephone numbers, all of which need to be managed. Concurrently, companies are under increasing scrutiny to adhere to government regulations and other compliance requirements to protect the privacy of customers, employees, and their personal data.
Jun 15 2004 12:13PM
Security
Managing information security in modern commercial environments
We began this series of articles with the observation that recent advances in the area of network technology and the success of the Internet have resulted in a new business model. This new model has resulted in a number of new challenges in the area of information security which, although largely understood, are only partially resolved. As a result, information security-related risk has been growing rapidly in the last few years and companies will need to take a more proactive stance to managing this risk in order to continue to enjoy the benefits that technological advances have made possible.
Jun 15 2004 12:09PM
Security
Keys to addressing the data privacy mandate
Enterprises worldwide are spending approximately $20 billion per year on IT security, yet very costly breaches continue to occur. In large part, this is because security efforts have mainly been focused on network security rather than data privacy. Data privacy is the process of securing critical data as it is being stored, transmitted, and used within the enterprise.
Jun 8 2004 12:02PM
Security
The case for intrusion prevention
There have been many cases reported in both trade and national press recently about the increasing threat of cyber attacks, and the methodology employed to exploit vulnerabilities in security implementations. Despite this increased emphasis on the reality of the threat, many organisations are ignoring the advances in security products and technologies that can significantly increase their resistance to these attacks.
Jun 8 2004 11:42AM
Security
Managing information security in modern commercial environments
Previous articles in this series have outlined the challenges facing the present-day information security manager, presented an approach to meeting these challenges and analysed the purpose of the consolidation phase in some detail. We now turn our eyes to the second phase of the approach – the strategic planning cycle.
Jun 8 2004 11:37AM
Security
Review: SecureLogin Single Sign-On
We are all familiar with the concept of single sign-on, where a user undertakes a single authentication process for access to multiple applications, thus significantly reducing the password nightmare which is a reality for many enterprise users.
Jun 5 2004 12:00AM
Security
