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1. Turning Security Inside Out

   [ Interview ] Topic: Data Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 05/11/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bill Bartow, vice president of product management, Tizor Systems . Weinschenk : You say there are four types of breaches. What are they? Bartow : There are four ways in which data can be exposed outside a company. Number one is through e-mail, which generally is...

2. Lack of Wireless Security Still a Problem for Both Providers and Users

   [ Blog ] Topic: Network Security | Author: RalphDeFrangesco | Date Published: 08/24/2009

   I am on vacation this week, taking in the sun and the sand on a very nice beach along the east coast. Of course, one of the first things I did when I arrived was to check out the connectivity to the Internet. What can I say, even on vacation I am a geek. I am staying in a condo that does not have...

3. The Time Has Come: Security Integration

   [ Blog ] Topic: Network Security | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 08/30/2007

   I've covered integration for this blog for nearly six months now. Before that, I wrote about IT security. And before that - in the nascent days of the Internet - I wrote more generally about topics of interest to CIOs and IT managers - including security and integration. I've got seven years of IT...

4. The Genesis of a Security Crisis

   [ Blog ] Topic: Data Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 05/08/2008

   The image of data theft for most people is a clever hacker sitting in a dark basement plotting ingenious ways around cyber security. More recently, the popular imagination has switched to organized crime syndicates operating out of shadowy Russian networks. There is another image, however:...

5. IF-MAP Protocol can Integrate Security

   [ News ] Topic: Network Security | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 05/06/2008

   A new protocol could help businesses protect against the rising number of devices trying to access their private networks. EE Times reports that the Trusted Computing Group has introduced Interface to Metadata Access Point , or IF-MAP. The protocol is key to the group's recently published...

6. Microsoft Adds to Security Development Lifecycle

   [ News ] Topic: Application Security | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 05/20/2009

   Microsoft is adding to its Security Development Lifecycle in an effort to allow developers to integrate the SDL more tightly into the development process, reports vnunet.com . The company is offering a free Visual Studio process template that provides guidance on how to implement the SDL...

7. Information Security for End Users

   [ Document ] Topic: Security Policy | Date Published: 01/25/2009

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8. Sobering Reminder for Retailers of Need for Compliance/Security Updates?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Data Security | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 08/18/2009

   In the last couple of days, The New York Times , the Associated Press and almost every other media outlet has reported the arrest of a Miami man and two (as yet unnamed) Russian co-conspirators in connection with what is being called "the largest ID theft ring in history." Albert Gonzalez...

9. Security-as-a-Service Gets to Root of Desktop Security

   [ News ] Topic: Managed Security Services | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 05/02/2008

   Last month, Big Blue announced a new security-as-a-service offering, called Threat Mitigation Express Advantage Services, aimed at SMBs. Security's rising star, Webroot, also plans to target this market with a Web and malware filtering service . The service doesn't have a name yet, but is...

10. More Security Concerns at Los Alamos

    [ News ] Topic: Security Policy | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 06/26/2007

    More security issues came to light Monday at Los Alamos National Laboratory, just as a U.S. Senate subcommittee was scheduled to announce how much the federal government will spend on the lab in 2008, reports The Santa Fe New Mexican . While on vacation in Ireland, the laptop of a lab...

11. Torvalds Fed up with 'Security Circus'

    [ News ] Topic: Network Security | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 08/15/2008

    Linux guru Linus Torvalds says he is fed up with the "security circus" that surrounds software vulnerabilities. In an e-mail exchange with Network World , Torvalds explained that security is split into two camps: one side that believes in hiding knowledge of bugs until they're fixed and the...

12. Definitions: Managed Security Services

    [ Document ] Topic: Managed Security Services | Date Published: 01/27/2009

    Definition Managed security services are security operations outsourced  to a company that specializes in those operations. Common managed security  services include firewall management, vulnerability assessments, patch  management, IDS management, e-mail security and content...