FBI Urges Greater Co-operation From US Tech Firms
News It is possible for electronic intrusions to damage infrastructure and threaten physical danger, but taking control of those systems from the outside requires specialised knowledge and the intruder often must overcome noncomputerised fail-safe...
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
Achieving Consolidated Data Protection
White Papers Consolidation efforts in the broader IT realm are mostly about merging and simplifying physical infrastructure. In addition, they can achieve physical consolidation, with assets realigned to match the organization's stake in protecting its most...
[December 22, 2005, 23:00]
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, And Implementation
White Papers However, the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks, demonstrate the need to reexamine physical protections and to integrate this into an overall critical infrastructure policy.
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Technology Assessment: Cyber Security For Critical Infrastructure Protection
White Papers Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) involves activities that enhance the security of our nation's cyber and physical infrastructure. Computers are crucial to the operations of government and business.
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Statewide Critical Infrastructure Protection: New Mexico's Model
White Papers The organization promotes physical and cyber protection by sharing and disseminating information about threats to critical systems. The New Mexico Critical Infrastructure Assurance Council (NMCIAC) is a cooperative, private- and public-sector...
[August 30, 2005, 0:00]
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Establishing Effective Information Sharing With Infrastructure Sectors
White Papers Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) activities that are called for in federal policy and law are intended to enhance the security of the cyber and physical public and private infrastructures that are essential to our nation's security...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
US Government Unveils Cybersecurity Plan
News The "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" uses the definition of "critical infrastructure" contained in the USA Patriot Act, which describes these as "systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
The Future Of Radio Frequency Identification
News Besides increasing the accuracy and flexibility of operation, the integration of physical assets to the IT infrastructure can provide a real-time view of demand, enabling a true "sense and respond" enterprise.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
US Govt To Get Early Warning Of Net Attacks
News The TTIC, a mammoth data-collection project intended to fuse information collected domestically by police and internationally by spy agencies, has a broad mandate but has focused on physical threats to national security.
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
Hacktivists Threaten World Bank Meeting
News The US government's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) said on Monday that those planning physical disruption might also use computer attacks to "enhance the effects of the physical attack or to complicate the response by emergency...
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Tips For Managing IT Facilities
News Some may also mention smoke detection, uninterruptible power supplies, and controlled physical access. Most data centres have acceptable methods of controlling physical access into their machine rooms, but not always for vaults or rooms that store...
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
European Software Patents Inch Closer
News Some factions had sought to clearly limit what kinds of software-related inventions could be patented; Cult, for example, proposed an amendment to the proposal stating that "data processing is not a field of technology", removing it from...
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
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. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) issued an advisory...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
US Government Wants Firms' Security Secrets
News The proposal sweeps broadly, covering any data submitted to the government about any real or possible attack on "critical infrastructure or protected systems by physical or computer-based attack" or any programming errors, glitches or bugs that...
[April 17, 2003, 7:58]
NISCC Wins Gong For Its Fight Against Cybercrime
News NISCC was established in 1999 to work on the physical protection of assets in the UK. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) got a pat on the back today. However, the main bulk of its work resides in mitigating risk in...
[October 8, 2004, 14:10]
The Pros And Cons Of High-availability Systems
News A loss of the physical site could result in the destruction of the backup systems as well as the production systems. HA systems allow organisations to fail over much faster than remote failover, and they offer a greater level of protection for...
[June 17, 2005, 12:50]
KPMG Issues Stark Warning Over VoIP
News A confidentiality breach in the traditional network generally requires physical connection to the network to eavesdrop on conversations from selected lines. Depending on the telephone handset operating system, handsets might also require virus...
[October 28, 2004, 11:19]
The Basics Of Backup
News For best protection, members of a server cluster can be located in different physical locations. As your company grows, it becomes more and more important to have a comprehensive strategy in place that will allow you to continue operations as...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
EMC: Beware The Storage Virtualisation Quick Fix
News You've got the interfaces from the network card sitting up there on the server, operating system support, physical network infrastructure down to the storage with management tools that can see this, replication software and so, for many customers...
[April 10, 2006, 14:40]
Spy Games
News Some vendors are pushing to make corporate physical security systems as pervasive and as easy to operate as Google. Corporate interest in physical security systems goes back, inevitably, to the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001.increased the...
[April 10, 2006, 13:15]
