TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, launched on Monday, TippingPoint X505, an integrated security platform built on intrusion prevention system technology. IPS combines a stateful inspection firewall, IPSec VPN, bandwidth management, Web content filtering and dynamic routing.
Network Appliance on Wednesday unveiled the Uncompromised Security Initiative,
a program the company claims challenges the status quo of data security and
promises to deliver industry-best solutions to the enterprise.
A survey on mobile security released on Monday by Good Technology, a handheld computing software and service provider, suggests enterprises are seeking new ways to address handheld device and security management.
Identity Engines on Monday introduced an enterprise-grade platform designed to deliver highly reliable, centrally-managed network identity management services.
Mitnick regales with hacker tales.
Spyware steals identities, invades privacy, compromises enterprise info-security,
alters and destroys data, and replicates to a point where systems collapse under
the weight. And that's just for starters.
Think the damage from security breaches can be contained? When it comes to consumer opinion, don’t count on it. According to a recent survey, only 8 percent of consumers who receive a security breach notification do not blame the organization that suffered the breach. In addition, 19 percent of consumers who received a notification took their business elsewhere, and 40 percent were considering doing so.
Symantec’s biannual Internet Security Threat Report highlights the degree to which computer systems attackers now rely on modular code. Although the number of new vulnerabilities is beginning to level off, the number of malware variants is increasing.
Security software maker Trend Micro says the majority of corporate computer users is familiar with the risks of spyware, but half think IT should be doing a better job educating them to deepen their understanding of the threat.
Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.
Attacks on instant messaging systems used by enterprises and consumers are escalating dramatically, according to the third-quarter report from The IMlogic Threat Center, a consortium that provides threat detection and protection for IM and peer-to-peer (P2P) apps.
Developers tracking the latest product vulnerabilities now have a central location
to check—the National Vulnerability Database.
The Sammons Financial Group wanted a handle on the information on its network to satisfy compliance, security and privacy requirements.
Iron Mountain, which provides records management and data protection services, is advising its off-site data protection customers to encrypt their backup tapes.
Symantec released yesterday its Internet Security Threat Report, for the first 6 months of the year, in which the company says Internet attackers are more frequently targeting desktops rather than enterprise perimeters.
Although it claims it is not a security vulnerability, Microsoft has released another of its frequent security advisories, this time to alert users to a flaw in Windows Firewall that would prevent IT administrators from seeing open ports on XP and Server 2003 servers.
Most businesses have tackled viruses, hammering best practices into their users and implementing anti-virus software. However, these same enterprises and their users still don’t realize spyware’s potential damage, according to a session at a recent SHARE user conference in Boston.
Cloakware has expanded language support for its Cloakware Security Suite to include C, C++ and Java, extending the range of code that can be protected from reverse engineering when the software is stored on a disk, and against tampering when the software is stored on disk or running in memory.
Sales associates at Gordmans, an apparel and home fashions retailer, found they were spending more time waiting for inventory data than they were spending on customers.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) takes the discrete business functions in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable services—which is one of the most effective ways to share and consume information with partners. But managing and exposing these services creates some big security risks; keeping the bad guys from connecting to those services is tricky.