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EMC moves into surveillance market
News EMC's Surveillance Analysis and Management Solution (SAMS) is a combination of hardware, software and services that let organisations store, archive, search-through quickly and analyse physical data and video from physical security devices.
[August 11, 2005, 17:15]
Virtualisation key to next-gen data centres
News Traditional data-centre concerns, like physical security and perimeter defense, will be superseded by other issues, according to IDC. Virtualisation will play an important role in next-generation data centres, but that will also create new...
[September 21, 2007, 9:26]
Pick of the week: Linux on the road and Vista at sea
Blog Let's get Physical ! Will a recession impact security spending? sorry couldn't resist.blog Security consultants scare ryanpothecary. Here's a roundup of great posts from this week, with a street-level look at iPhone's MobileMe, a prediction of...
[August 1, 2008, 17:59]
A Year Ago: Net firm seeks nuclear bunker...
News Johnston-Bryden says that these facilities not only provide unparalleled physical protection -- a site that his company is co-developing in Kent can withstand a near miss from a tactical nuclear weapon -- but also come with an abundance of power...
[May 31, 2001, 6:28]
Six big trends of Comdex '01
News People are looking for more comprehensive methods of security -- not just data security, but physical security," said Tom D'Auria, the chief executive of Information Methods, a management-consulting firm and Comdex advisor.
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
Virtualisation 'next frontier' for hackers
News There is also the risk of attacks on the information held in all the VMs sharing the same physical platform if hypervisor security is broken," said Titterington. It's not to say you'll be a sitting duck — it's just [more risky] because there's so...
[October 21, 2008, 8:51]
Verizon rolls out computing-as-a-service
News Its datacentres are also audited for physical security. Verizon worked with HP, VMware and Red Hat on the development of its CaaS architecture, which lets customers provision either physical and virtual server environments, depending on the type of...
[June 4, 2009, 13:12]
Government admits to 200 more stolen laptops
News We have robust measures in place to protect the physical security of the department's IT assets and these measures are kept under constant review. An MoJ spokesman defended its record on laptop security, saying laptops were inherently in danger of...
[February 20, 2008, 7:13]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News The best is their physical security. Apparently, you arrive in their London HQ to be greeted by a half dozen closed circuit TV cameras, and a squad of uniformed security jobsworths. What I can tell you is that he has been walking in and out of that...
[September 6, 1997, 8:00]
Symantec seeks shift in cloud security
News In reality, however, additional engineering is required to properly manage data security in a mix of physical and virtual environments, Berryman pointed out. The benefit of driving out costs in infrastructure will come when it's transparent to a...
[August 28, 2009, 14:42]
3Com Network Jack NJ-95 review
Reviews This arrangement is for physical security, so that the unit can't easily be removed from the socket to which it's fitted. Certainly, if 3Com lowered the price of the NJ-95 to that of an unmanaged desktop switch, there'd be little reason to choose...
[June 3, 2003, 10:41]
Hackers split over vigilante strikes
News Infrastructure owners and operators should be at a heightened state of alert and should implement appropriate security measures--both physical and cyber," the NIPC said. More than 60 self-styled "computer security enthusiasts" have banded together...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
Department of Health beats MoD for device losses
News We also provide physical security devices, such as cables which anchor laptops to furniture and prevent removal. We provide guidance to staff on how to prevent equipment theft at work, home and during travel, including annual security awareness...
[November 26, 2008, 10:20]
Cyberattack threat spurs US rethink on power grids
News Ferc chairman Joseph Kelliher said his commission's authority should apply to a broader definition of national security threats, because physical attacks can cause equal or greater damage than cyberattacks.
[September 15, 2008, 13:35]
Photos: Inside Sophos Labs
News The moat around the outside is to stop ram raiders, while the car park contains wedges that can be raised to prevent a vehicle from leaving in the event of a physical attack.For the full story on what goes on in The Pentagon, read our feature.
[November 29, 2005, 11:30]
IBM report cites mobile phone hacking risks
News However, the technique only works on the first-generation of global system for mobile communications (GSM) phones and requires that the attacker have physical access to the phone for at least a minute or two.
[May 8, 2002, 8:57]
Microsoft sheds light on Centro
News The standard server package, which actually runs on three physical servers, consists of Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Forefront Security for Exchange, System Center Essentials, and the next version of ISA Server.
[November 7, 2007, 13:58]
Queen's University to found anti-cybercrime centre
News The funding has been contributed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Technology Strategy Board, who contributed £6.95m and £2.5m respectively. The CSIT will examine problems including how to lock down mobile networks...
[November 24, 2008, 10:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News On a network, moreover, shared with several hundred users, quite a few of whom have the technical knowledge to sniff packets and do some serious tinkering, and that's before the physical security considerations.
[July 23, 1999, 16:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On a network, moreover, shared with several hundred users, quite a few of whom have the technical knowledge to sniff packets and do some serious tinkering, and that's before the physical security considerations.
[July 23, 1999, 17:12]
