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Facing up to the spate of menacing attacks
Oct 15 2004 4:18PM
Security
Plague of viruses, worms, and spam fuel Gulf States security software boom
Fuelled by a plague of viruses and spam, security software spending rose by over a quarter to $52.59 million in the Gulf States in 2003 and is expected to rise 27 per cent during 2004, recent analysis of the Middle Eastern security market has revealed.
Oct 13 2004 12:58PM
Security
The dangers of metadata
Imagine the scene: you are sitting at your desk copying a pasting some new information into a company template. All the old content has been removed and the new detail has been inputted. The document is ready to go and gets sent out as an email attachment. But stop! Do you know that the document you have just sent contains all the confidential information you thought had been deleted? This invisible detail is called metadata.
Oct 13 2004 11:24AM
Security
Identity Management: A Key Enabler of IT-Business Alignment
As technologies have improved and the value of the Internet to business has exploded because of technologies like Java and XML, the abilities of vendors to graphically and accurately represent the status of hardware, network and application components became much more robust.
Oct 6 2004 3:36PM
Security
Outsourcing firms warned of 'significant cost of security'
International enterprises cannot afford to ignore the potentially serious IT security implications that arise when they decide to outsource core business functions to third party providers, industry analysts have warned.
Oct 5 2004 10:53AM
Security
University of Texas Health Science Center completes data security project
The University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston completed a network upgrade to protect and encrypt personally identifiable patient and employee financial information, electronic protected health information (EPHI) and intellectual property.
Oct 1 2004 10:24AM
Security
The risks of outsourcing
What if you learned that your closest competitor had an indirect network connection to your company? Would you be worried? If you outsource any aspect of your company's functions, and that outsourcing vendor has your competitor as a customer, an indirect link may exist.
Sep 29 2004 11:18AM
Security
Significance of Common Criteria Assurance Maintenance (AMA)
Certificate Assurance Maintenance (AMA) is an extension to the Common Criteria (CC) Certification Scheme, by which vendors who have previously CC certified their product at a specific revision continue to maintain the same level of assurance their original certification offers their customers, as new revisions of the product are introduced.
Sep 22 2004 3:12PM
Security
US FTC mulls $250,000 bounty on heads of spammers
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has outlined plans for a "vigorous law enforcement programme against spam" after submitting of a report to Congress warning that the current system, whereby consumers are encouraged to forward unsolicited emails a FTC database, is not working.
Sep 21 2004 1:50PM
Security
CSIA lobbies for US ratification of EU Cybercrime Convention
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has formed of a coalition of technology companies and industry organisations in a bid to promote the ratification of the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime.
Sep 17 2004 10:54AM
Security
Analysts herald arrival of smart security patching tools
IT security managers can look forward to the arrival of enhanced patching technology which will automate and reduce the cost of installing software security and maintenance updates, industry experts have predicted.
Sep 14 2004 11:42AM
Security
