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IT Risk Management: Guide to Software Risk Assessments and Audits
White Papers Despite the size, there is no standardized notion of software security quality even though the repercussions include product patches, data breaches leading to massive theft and fluctuations in corporate stock prices.
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
Cost-cutting firms gamble with IT security
News Half of UK businesses fell victim to either a virus or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past year, a 25 percent increase on the year before, according to the Department of Trade and Industry's latest Information Security Breaches...
[April 8, 2004, 17:40]
Exclusive: Major security flaw hits Microsoft
News But it is not just Microsoft's products that are vulnerable to attack: there have been several security breaches of high-profile e-commerce Web sites illustrating the precarious nature of the fledgling technology.
[January 27, 2000, 16:03]
Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security
White Papers Your mobile applications and devices can be compromised by security breaches and data theft. Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
Should a security professional have a legal background?
Blog Comment System designs that are not designed properly from the beginning, are not controlled or managed, or not constantly updated probably cause more security breaches than any legal training could repair. The legal training only reinforces the reasoning...
[August 22, 2008, 9:02]
Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
White Papers It also highlights how Oracle provides security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches. It discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Analysts lament security 'arms race'
News McGlashan believes that one of the only effective ways of doing this is for security personnel to show what breaches have happened elsewhere as a means of illustrating security's continuing importance to the enterprise.
[November 21, 2007, 16:22]
US Report: MS, Netscape scramble to fix security holes
News The malicious code needn't be contained in an e-mail attachment; rather, the tags that identify the attachment contain the code, according to Russ Cooper, owner and moderator of the NTBugtraq mailing list, which is dedicated to security breaches...
[July 29, 1998, 14:38]
Small companies ignorant of security warns expert
News However, application software should have security built in from the beginning, according to Schmidt, who said he looks forward to a time when software will be able to configure automatically to a user's system, and detect attempted security...
[November 20, 2006, 16:47]
Roundup: UK online banking security crisis
News Security breaches up, according to survey In their eagerness to cash in on the UK's dot-com boom, banks have rushed to get Internet services up and running -- often at the expense of security. Barclays were the latest bank to feel the embarassment...
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
Nearly half Net users put off by security fears
News Even with the continuing occurrence of high profile security breaches, many of the security measures available are not being deployed to the extent they should be and little attempt is being made to educate consumers in a common sense way," says...
[October 11, 2000, 9:00]
US Report: Microsoft warns of IIS security hole
News Khanna termed the problem "a configuration issue, not a security issue," since no breaches have occurred. Microsoft aired the exposure to its IIS developers through a July 15 bulletin as part of its new Security Advisor Notification Service, which...
[July 20, 1998, 6:40]
Microsoft's security complex
Leader Shrinkwrap licences that offer reparation for security breaches caused by failures in the software would also concentrate the designers' minds. Microsoft's new-found devotion to security hasn't been doing too well.
[February 18, 2005, 12:25]
Micromuse extends to security management
News It correlates and prioritises information, helping to find the root cause of breaches, he said. Micromuse has launched a console that manages alerts from different security devices at the ComNet networking exhibition in Washington.
[January 29, 2002, 11:22]
Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging
White Papers Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, your company's network is at risk for malware infections, regulatory compliance breaches and copyright violations. Incorporating Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings such as MessageLabs hosted IM Security...
[September 9, 2009, 1:23]
Data Security Standards Baffle Local Authorities
Blog Those authorities that find new and rigorous ways to motivate their staff on security risks - and the procedures will avoid them - should successfully minimise incidents and reduce the ‘human element’ that surrounds so many of the security...
[April 15, 2008, 14:59]
Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users From Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
White Papers High-profile data breaches frequent the headlines, with countless smaller incidents happening almost daily. Rather than targeting the network directly, hackers often exploit the most vulnerable part of the security ecosystem - the users.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Centralise security for success
News This type of "inside attack" -- an attack carried out against a company by its own employee -- is said to account for about 70 percent of all security breaches. As we take security more seriously, as we put more obstacles between the outside world...
[November 7, 2001, 9:53]
Protecting the Corporate Data of Mobile Workers
White Papers This webcast includes important findings from the surveys by The Ponemon Institute on the cost, frequency, and impact of data breaches as well as current best practices for data protection by leading security vendors PGP Corporation and Symantec.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Open source 'lacks enterprise-grade security'
News A recent survey found that unsupported open source software was one of the top causes of security breaches. The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open-source software, according to a...
[July 21, 2008, 17:03]
