Friday, July 09, 2010

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Are your IT folks snooping your protected data?
In a survey of IT professionals published Wedneday, 67% of respondents admitted having accessed information that was not relevant to their role, and 41% admitted abusing administrative passwords to snoop on sensitive or confidential information. Read More


WEBCAST: IBM

Take a Smarter Approach to Archiving
Examine strategies and tactics for unifying data and content. View an e-discovery calculator and go inside a 3-year ROI model. Learn More

WEBCAST: IBM

3 Reasons You Need a Comprehensive Smart Archive Strategy
Learn how enterprises can combine SAP and IBM's Smart Archive to craft content collection, archiving and compliance strategies. Learn More

Updated BlackBerry security features aimed at boosting corporate use
RIM Wednesday unveiled a new version of its Blackberry Enterprise Server that includes features aimed at allaying security fears of IT managers. Read More

Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks
Despite how attractive cloud computing can sound as an outsourcing option, there's widespread concern that it presents a security and legal minefield. Cloud service providers often cultivate an aura of secrecy about data centers and operations, claiming this stance improves their security even if it leaves everyone else in the dark. Read More

IBM buys BigFix for data centre patching
IBM is to further bulk out its profitable software division with the acquisition of privately-held patching company, BigFix. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc.

Justifying IT Security
The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now!

Websense promotes DLP freebie
Websense Thursday is announcing that it's making its data-loss prevention (DLP) suite free for 30 days under a "DLP for Download" program. Read More

Inside the Celtics' infosecurity playbook
The Boston Celtics' VP of technology explains how using the MacBook Pro and cloud-based services helped improve the franchise's IT security. Read More

IT Protects the Network, But Who Protects the Network from IT?
Businesses have gigabytes upon gigabytes of sensitive and confidential data archived on servers, storage arrays, or backup media. Those companies rely on the expertise of information security professionals to protect that data and prevent unauthorized access. The question, though, is "who is protecting the sensitive and confidential data from the information security professionals?" Read More


E-BOOK: IBM

The IBM Guide to Smart Archive
The IBM Guide to Smart Archive is an interactive collateral and video tool that helps explain in a unique way IBM's Smart Archive strategy. Learn More

RSA weighs in on data loss prevention
According to U.S. government estimates, incidents of enterprise data loss cost businesses more than $100 billion in a single year. As threats to enterprise data grow more sophisticated, it's imperative for businesses to implement a comprehensive data security strategy. But where to start? RSA, The Security Division of EMC, provides us with these best practices for preventing enterprise data loss. Read More

RSA's best practices for preventing enterprise data loss
According to U.S. government estimates, incidents of enterprise data loss cost businesses more than $100 billion in a single year. As threats to enterprise data grow more sophisticated, it's imperative for businesses to implement a comprehensive data security strategy. But where to start? RSA, The Security Division of EMC, provides us with these best practices for preventing enterprise data loss. Read More

Three more Microsoft zero-day bugs pop up
The number of zero-day vulnerabilities in widely-used Microsoft software products continues to grow, according to security experts. Read More

Honeypots for hacker detection
Most corporate networks lack serious oversight, that is, no one is really watching. Watching the network and computer systems is expensive, overwhelming and fraught with false positives. No wonder then that insider attacks go undetected for months, malware proliferates stealthily and hackers can spend their time gradually infiltrating deeper and deeper, undetected. Read More

DefCon contest to spotlight social engineering
How strong is your schmooze? That is the question participants in an upcoming contest at this year's Defcon event will attempt to answer at the end of July. The Social Engineering CTF (capture-the-flag contest) is sponsored by the group that runs the website social-engineer.org and will ask contestants to gather information and then plan a realistic and appropriate attack vector, according to Chris Hadnagy, one of the site's founders. Read More



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