Spotlight on Cyber Security Spotlight on Cyber Security

Most infosec leaders agree that traditional security methods, on their own, are no longer enough to combat advanced new threats. But what new techniques and strategies are they using? What lessons have they learnt from breaches?

iTnews will provide some answers to these questions in our Spotlight on Cyber Security, coinciding with the Australian Information Security Association’s national conference on 10-12 October.

Second tier vendors to challenge McAfee, Symantec on endpoint security

Second tier vendors to challenge McAfee, Symantec on endpoint security

AVG, BitDefender, Kaspersky and Sophos are making inroads into the market share of the endpoint industry leaders, largely on the grounds of using less processing power, a leading analyst argued today
Richard Thurston Jun 6 2008 10:22AM Security
Trend Micro to boycott security tests

Trend Micro to boycott security tests

The security vendor's chief technology officer said today the company will withdraw from the popular VB100 anti-malware tests, launching a tirade against the testers' methodology.
Richard Thurston Jun 6 2008 10:13AM Security
Liverpool City Council chooses Kaspersky Lab in network security overhaul

Liverpool City Council chooses Kaspersky Lab in network security overhaul

Liverpool City Council has implemented Kaspersky Open Space Security in a security review of its fast-growing, dispersed network.
Liz Tay Jun 5 2008 3:21PM Security
Review: Mu Security Mu 4000

Review: Mu Security Mu 4000

There's vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, but what about vulnerability analysis? Before you tell me that I'm just playing with words, stop for a sec and consider: it's one thing to assess what vulnerabilities may be in a system.
Peter Stephenson, Jun 5 2008 3:13PM Security
Review: Sunbelt Software Ninja Email Security

Review: Sunbelt Software Ninja Email Security

It takes an all-in-one security approach with features such as anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, attachment filtering, disclaimers and content filtering.
Peter Stephenson, Jun 4 2008 3:36PM Security
SME workers pose top security risk

SME workers pose top security risk

Employees at small and medium-sized companies are more likely to engage in behaviour that puts their employers at risk, according to a new survey..
Shaun Nichols Jun 4 2008 1:57PM Security
SME workers pose top security risk

SME workers pose top security risk

Small firms without the luxury of a dedicated IT department most at risk.
Shaun Nichols Jun 4 2008 10:04AM Security
Potential security breach by China?

Potential security breach by China?

A government laptop used by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez may have been breached during a visit to Bejing last December.
Sue Marquette Poremba Jun 3 2008 11:59AM Security
Review: Astaro Security Gateway 320 v7.1

Review: Astaro Security Gateway 320 v7.1

To call the Astaro Security Gateway appliance just a UTM would be a major understatement. This product can be loaded with so many feature sets that it could become the only security appliance needed for total protection.
Peter Stephenson, Jun 2 2008 1:57PM Security
HP: 'Intelligent' networks to support future corporations

HP: 'Intelligent' networks to support future corporations

Corporate networks need to become increasingly automated to handle information management demands, HP’s ProCurve networking business expects.
Liz Tay May 30 2008 2:01PM Networking
HP offers security as a service

HP offers security as a service

HP’s Assessment Management Platform, which brings together all of HP’s security products, will now be offered as a software-as-a-service package to enable firms to accelerate the deployment of web applications.
Rosalie Marshall May 29 2008 2:42PM Security
Flash attacks set off security alarms

Flash attacks set off security alarms

Several major security companies are warning of a new attack using infected Flash SWF files..
Shaun Nichols May 29 2008 12:07PM Security
Flash attacks set off security alarms

Flash attacks set off security alarms

Infected Flash SWF files causing havoc.
Shaun Nichols May 29 2008 10:35AM Security
CIOs plagued by mobile security threats

CIOs plagued by mobile security threats

Training is crucial, according to CompTIA survey.
Guy Dixon May 24 2008 9:31AM Security
Enterprise mobility still dogged by security concerns

Enterprise mobility still dogged by security concerns

Independent market analyst Datamonitor has released a new report headlining security concerns as the largest barrier to enterprise mobility deployments.
Dave Bailey May 23 2008 3:02PM Security
Cyber security author discusses economics of protecting cyberspace

Cyber security author discusses economics of protecting cyberspace

U.S. economists have launched a book that claims to document the first systematic analysis of the economics of protecting cyberspace.
Liz Tay May 23 2008 2:35PM Security
Open source security improving rapidly

Open source security improving rapidly

The quality and security of open source software is improving rapidly, according to an in-depth analysis of over 250 popular applications including Linux and Apache.
Robert Jaques May 20 2008 11:27PM Software
Qantas defends online security amidst child pornography case

Qantas defends online security amidst child pornography case

Qantas claims it provides "more than adequate" online security even though a man was found guilty of having accessed child pornography in its Melbourne Airport lounge last year.
Ashley Clark May 19 2008 12:32PM Security
Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues

Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues

Heisenberg fan boys are shaking their heads this week to the tune of a pair of Swedish mathematicians who claim to have broken quantum cryptography.
Liz Tay May 17 2008 7:00AM Security
How IT security could go green?

How IT security could go green?

THE CHAIRMAN OF Wick Hill Group in the UK, which sells security infrastructure for ebusiness, has written a whitepaper outlining his views on how IT security could become more environmentally friendly.
Sylvie Barak May 16 2008 10:15AM Security

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