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.

UK launches first Infosec professional institute

The world's first professional institute for information security practitioners received its offical launch yesterday (Monday 27 Jan.) with support coming from both UK industry and government.

Ron Condon Feb 28 2006 11:22AM Security

Viruses biggest security headache for U.K. business

Virus infections accounted for roughly half of the worst security incidents for U.K. companies in the past two years, according to a new survey.

René Millman Feb 28 2006 10:51AM Security

Endpoint security reaches across the network perimeter

The economy may be on the upswing, but increasing global competition combined with a multitude of compliance issues such as regulatory audits continue to pose a costly problem for organisations.

Alan Bentley Feb 27 2006 11:02AM Security

Small firms, growing security spending

Smaller U.K. companies are preparing to "drastically" boost IT security spending as they move beyond anti-virus solutions to the deployment of firewall and intrusion-detection software to protect internet gateways.

William Eazel Feb 27 2006 10:14AM Security

Lack of leadership threatens U.K. mobile security

A “distinct lack of leadership” on mobile security is leaving U.K. businesses open to potentially devastating levels of risk, new research has warned.

William Eazel Feb 22 2006 9:40AM Security

Charities offered free security boost

Charities and other non-profit organizations are to get protection from hackers and cybercriminals as a security company began offering free digital certificates and vulnerability scanning to websites that raise money for good causes.

Melissa Loveday Feb 16 2006 12:47PM Security

From RSA 2006: BSA says IT security awareness on the rise

Information security is now a considerably more prominent issue to private companies than it was just two years ago, according to a survey released by the Business Software Alliance this week.

Frank Washkuch Feb 16 2006 1:47AM Security

From RSA 2006: Fighting the good IT security fight

National cybersecurity is improving as the public-private partnership broadens but much work remains, a panel of security experts said Wednesday.

Dan Kaplan Feb 15 2006 7:43PM Security

Poor wireless security 'a liability' warns lawyer

Companies leave themselves open to legal threats if they fail to secure employee's laptops against wireless hackers in public hotspots, according to a London law firm.

René Millman Feb 13 2006 2:50PM Security

Joe Dauncey, lead security consultant, AT&T Business

I got into security about eight years ago as a network configurator for IBM, setting up routers for its Global Network. Then it became part of AT&T. Eventually, I ended up in a unit mediating between the security guys and the network guys.

Staff Writers Feb 13 2006 10:10AM Security

IT security pros get well-deserved credit

Harrison Ford rocked as the brainy, swashbuckling Indiana Jones. His swaggering Han Solo will be remembered for years to come. But it seems these unforgettable roles have been hard to duplicate.

Illena Armstrong Feb 7 2006 9:05PM Security

WMF focuses security pros' attention

As the new year began, security professionals were left in a hole. With an official patch for a recently discovered Windows meta file (WMF) vulnerability almost two weeks from release, analysts were forced to deal with a vulnerability that many did not technically consider a “vulnerability” at all.

Frank Washkuch Feb 7 2006 8:21PM Security

Are infosec pros complacent?

I had a very interesting conversation with a colleague recently. He had a disturbing take on the state of information security and, particularly, practitioners (of which he is one). He took the position that security professionals who have been around a while are becoming – no, making themselves – dinosaurs. Having been in this field well over 20 years myself, I, of course, found that a disturbing notion. You know what happened to the dinosaurs. Not a pretty thought.

Peter Stephenson,CeRNS, Feb 7 2006 8:00PM Security