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Security and Cost Considerations of Using Middleware to Facilitate SAS Integration
White Papers A brief overview of the SAS data warehouse, benefits that the middleware infrastructure provides to the client community, and security challenges created by using a middleware/SAS infrastructure design are explored.
[September 12, 2006, 1:00]
Government pushes for tougher IT security
News The OECD guidelines on information and network security, which update an earlier set released in 1992, try to raise awareness of the importance of security in IT within the business community. E-commerce minister Stephen Timms on Thursday launched...
[September 5, 2002, 9:00]
UK security industry gets professional body
News The Institute will also encourage professional development and support best practice, as well as being a mouthpiece for the security community, IISP said. This is a very good conduit to government, but this is about empowering the community — we...
[February 28, 2006, 8:50]
Reducing IT Audit Preparation Time by 95% While Enhancing Security Compliance With Symantec
White Papers Kitsap Community Federal Credit Union faced a wave of new federal and industry regulations requiring IT security audits. Symantec software addressed these needs, allowing Kitsap to automate security audits across all systems and measure compliance...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
HIPAA Security Considerations for Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems
White Papers HIPAA legislation raises concerns and security challenges for the healthcare community when deploying a variety of wireless connectivity solutions as part of their communications network. Specific focus will be made on the relevant HIPAA...
[November 14, 2009, 23:00]
Government promotes e-payment for council services
Talkback Fine in theory BUT the large scale use of e-payment methods require the following a)a computer with internet accessibility - not necessarily present in the poorer parts onf the community b) far more trust in the security of internet transactions...
[January 11, 2005, 0:30]
Spam Removed From Menu at United Community Bank
White Papers United Community Bank (UCB) provides banking services to consumers and businesses in Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. Spam, viruses, worms, and other malicious thieves of time and bandwidth challenge most businesses' quest...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Papers Despite the efforts of the security community, DDoS continues to wreak havoc on the Internet. Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, refers to a form of attack whereby a number of source IPs simultaneously send an abnormally large...
[October 6, 2009, 1:22]
Sendmail flaw tests new security body
News The Department of Homeland Security got high marks from the security community for giving companies the necessary time to create the patch and for synchronising its release. A critical flaw in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular email server, has...
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Man-in-theMiddle Attacks: Helping to Eliminate the Threat Without Impacting the Business
White Papers Well known in the cryptography community, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks have long been recognized as a potential threat to Web-based transactions by security experts. But in the summer of 2006, and ongoing through 2008 and beyond, these attacks...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
People Patching: Is User Education of Any Use at All?
White Papers In general, the anti-malware community splits dramatically into two camps when it comes to the evergreen debate about the effectiveness of user education and security awareness as a protective measure.
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
Insider warns of storage industry security flaws
News The storage community has not been part of this world, but we're being quickly educated — we need to fix this now. The security strategies of the leading storage vendors have been criticised by a former US government security consultant who now...
[September 8, 2006, 15:35]
What to Do if You Are Blacklisted
White Papers These systems aim to improve mail security and integrity and most of them are community managed. Distributed Mail Blacklists are databases used by different systems to decide if the IP connecting to a certain mail server is a known spammer/pharmer...
[February 13, 2009, 0:24]
Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog Of course, we recognise that criminals are getting increasingly sophisticated and we work continuously with the Government’s security community to ensure we keep ahead of them," said Hall. Our intention is that the National Identity Register will...
[November 14, 2006, 16:31]
Mobile Banking: Mobile Security and the Future of Banking Profitability.
Blog Let there be no mistake about it, we as a global community have a certain lingering bitterness in our mouths for the financial sector. Mobile Banking: Mobile Security and the Future of Banking Profitability.
[January 5, 2010, 15:54]
Microsoft talks the talk on security
News Adler says that Microsoft's much publicised security initiative puts it ahead of the open source community. Visual Studio .Net, for example was reviewed by California-based security specialist Foundstone, resulting in a new default security policy...
[July 23, 2002, 15:25]
Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Banking
White Papers Community financial institutions, including retail and commercial banks, savings & loans, and credit unions, along with larger institutions and other commercial enterprises, continue to face increasing information security threats.
[February 2, 2007, 10:37]
Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
Talkback All of a certain company's undocumented features were eventually detected and exploited (when the developer/administrator community had no idea whether these features/bugs existed. Security by Obscurity has been found to be frail.
[September 23, 2005, 3:20]
Nokia unveils quad-core security platform
News Together with Nokia leveraging the Intel and Check Point CoreXL innovations, we envision many more opportunities to solve enterprise security challenges with our joint channel community. Nokia has released a security appliance for large businesses...
[September 7, 2007, 16:10]
MSDN Architecture Webcast: Web Services Security Patterns (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast introduces the Microsoft Web Service Security Patterns, a prescriptive architecture guide that is in its community review phase. Web service security presents many more challenges than securing a typical enterprise application because...
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
