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Cyber Security Programs Get Boost from $2.7 Million Grant
The Associated Press reports that the National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant to a consortium of technology centers and community colleges in eight states that is working to stop cyber attacks and the loss of high-tech jobs in the U.S. The Cyber Security...
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Security -- or Lack of -- at Black Hat
There are plenty of interesting developments at the Black Hat security conference. The big news was security researcher Dan Kaminsky's talk , in which he said the flaw in the Domain Name System is worse than originally thought. He demonstrated 15 ways it could be exploited beyond just...
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Security Is Key in Outsourcing Initiatives
Ann All spoke with Richard Yee, chief security officer for API Outsourcing, a provider of invoice automation solutions to mid-size and Fortune 1000 firms. All : What steps should companies take, in terms of security, if they are considering establishing a relationship with an outsourcing...
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Firefox Extension Boosts Security
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a free extension for Firefox 3.0 to thwart man-in-the middle attacks , according to an Associated Press story in the San Francisco Chronicle. When users go to a site that throws up a warning that its security can't be verified by a...
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IT Security Looks to Eliminate 'Silos'
IT folks, meet your new partner: It's Joe, the guy who sits at the guard shack signing visitors in and out. That's the new world discussed in a worthwhile article on news.com this morning, which hits on the trend that workplace security is no longer merely concerned with purely physical...
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Security Breach at Walter Reed
Walter Reed Army Medical Center is the latest government agency to suffer a security breach. FCW.com reports that personal information on about 1,000 patients may have been compromised. Officials discovered the breach on May 21 when an outside company, which has not been identified, accessed...
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Application Security from the Beginning No Longer Such a Tough Nut to Crack
I remember application security from the good old days -- there was none. We coded up a C-program or a Fortran program and crossed our fingers. As application security matured, we started reviewing code line-by-line for security defects; it's all there was. We made many, many mistakes along the...
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Browser Competition Good for Security
In a world of highly interactive Web 2.0 applications, browser security is a big issue. This study -- released by Google Switzerland, IBM Internet Security Systems and a firm called Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory -- drew interesting conclusions about how people are handling Web...
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Security: A Process, Not a Technology
Carl Weinschenk spoke with John Addeo, practice director, Advanced Security for Dimension Data . Weinschenk : What are the biggest overall security challenges? Addeo : Most organizations with poor security have a poor understanding of what the risks are, what systems are patched [or not],...
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Security and Compliance: A Marriage of Convenience
Carl Weinschenk spoke with Shlomo Kramer. CEO for Imperva . Weinschenk : What is the relationship between security and compliance? Kramer : We are dealing with application-based security and compliance. Every organization has confidential information in the database and the data center....
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UK Was Warned of Security Risks
Treasury risk manager Richard Fennelly told the UK government in 2004 that allowing junior staff to access the child-benefit database posed a security hazard , reports vnunet.com . The head of the UK tax agency resigned amid the furor over two lost disks containing personal information...
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Colleges Earn C+ for Network Security, Survey Shows
According to a survey by the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, most colleges score the security of their networks an average of 3.7 out of 5. NetworkWorld reports that most respondents see mobile devices as the most vulnerable...
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The IT Governance and Compliance Toolkit
This Toolkit is a collection of templates and instructional documents that help you assess and establish the crucial policies that you need to operate a secure and compliant IT organization.