Features

Get prepared to avoid downtime

Fires, power outages, cyberattacks. Natural and man-made disasters threaten every company, but in this increasingly internet-dependent economy, downtime and the losses caused by it are a major concern.

Marcia Savage Feb 12 2004 6:39PM Security

Cybersecurity’s new power surge

Before he left his post as White House cyberspace security advisor last May, Howard Schmidt promised top federal officials that he would create a greater leadership role in the private sector on cybersecurity.

Marcia Savage Feb 12 2004 6:27PM Security

Only authorized users welcome

With internal attacks on systems becoming ever more frequent, and the necessity for data accuracy increasing under corporate compliance legislation, I decided it was time to examine whether centralized user provisioning could secure information cost-effectively.

Neil Chaney Feb 12 2004 6:17PM Security

This government can’t keep pointing fingers

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was one of eight federal agencies that scored an F on the most recent Federal Computer Security report card. That's scary and funny all at once.

Illena Armstrong Feb 12 2004 5:54PM Security

Trustworthy Computing must include browsers

What is Microsoft thinking of? The company’s laudable goals of Trustworthy Computing have seen great strides made in much of its software, its patching process is improving and security-specific products like ISA Server are getting steadily better. But the firm seems to be having huge difficulty fixing fundamental flaws in Internet Explorer, flaws that are being actively exploited by criminals, and is now considering abandoning standards in what appear to be increasingly desperate attempts to secure the browser.

Jon Tullett Feb 12 2004 5:42PM Security

This product provides users with SSO and administrators with a centralized way of managing the applications and resources that a user can access. It uses a centralized Policy Server and security plug-ins on user workstations and it authenticates users at first login with a choice, or combination, of password, Radius, token, certificate, smartcard or biometric authentication methods.

Geoff Marshall Feb 12 2004 12:00AM Security

Companies combine to face biometric challenge

Security firms De La Rue Identity Systems and BioDentity Systems have teamed up to provide international travel document and border clearance solutions that work using biometrics.

Dan Ilett Feb 9 2004 4:51PM Security

Review: ActivCard Gold Desktop

ActivCard knows how to provide products for review – they sent us software kits for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris, complete with manuals and supporting literature.

This was complemented by three smartcard readers, a PCMCIA reader, USB tokens and smartcards.

Julian Ashbourn Feb 1 2004 12:00AM Security

Review: ActivPack AAA Server

This is a comprehensive and flexible product upon which may be built an equally comprehensive access security model. It is scalable and facilitates the management of both local and remote network access within various environments and, if required, across multiple authentication servers.

Julian Ashbourn Feb 1 2004 12:00AM Security

Review: Safe@Office

For anyone connecting to the internet, security has long been an issue. However, for many small businesses, the cost of security has also been a big issue and a heavy burden because the cost of security has often outweighed its benefits.

Jayne Parkhouse Feb 1 2004 12:00AM Security

Review: WhatsUp Gold Failover

Monitoring networks can be tricky, whether it is connecting ten machines or ten thousand.

Dan Ilett Feb 1 2004 12:00AM Security

Review: Trinity Secure Sign-On

Trinity is designed to allow enterprises to protect sign-on with smartcards, fingerprint biometrics, hardware tokens, passwords, or a combination of these methods.