Strengthen your network defences
News Recently, Microsoft has publicised the idea that if you want to have a truly secure network, you must focus your efforts in five primary areas: perimeter defences, network defences, application defences, data defences, and host defences.
[April 30, 2003, 15:45]
Explaining the Estonian cyberattacks
News They'll change locations, if they have a big enough botnet; sources, if they can overwhelm the defences that selectively look at different kinds of sources; or the individual traffic types or packet types to overwhelm protocol-based defences on...
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
iPods are security risk, warns analyst
News Small portable storage products can bypass perimeter defences like firewalls and antivirus at the mailserver, and introduce malware such as Trojans or viruses onto company networks, claimed analyst Gartner in a report issued this week.
[July 5, 2004, 17:30]
Tackling the threat from portable storage devices
News Intentionally or unintentionally, users can bypass perimeter defences like firewalls and antivirus at mailserver, and introduce malware such as Trojan horses or viruses that, if not discovered, can cause serious damage.
[July 5, 2004, 17:10]
Surveillance software keeps track of rogue MP3s
News Security moves beyond just the perimeter defences and really enters the corporate network itself, where the critical assets actually reside. FutureSoft, an enterprise content security company, has updated its DynaComm i:scan file surveillance...
[July 1, 2003, 11:56]
Toyota embraces open standards for security
News You need technical and procedural security, and overlapping defences, but the furthest extent of the network perimeter is the head of your employee — it's your people," Cross added. Toyota gave its backing to open standards on Thursday, saying they...
[February 24, 2006, 12:35]
Gartner issues predictions for 2007 and beyond
News By the end of 2007, 75 percent of enterprises will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded their traditional perimeter and host defences. Blogging will reach its peak, and Vista will be the last major...
[December 13, 2006, 15:22]
Script kiddies learn grown-up hacking techniques
News People who put up the usual defences, such as firewalls and regular patching, may not be protected against this. The upshot is security is not just at the perimeter, it has to work at the core of the network.
[January 13, 2005, 14:10]
Wanted: Hackers to attack the House of Commons
News Hackers are to be employed to test the effectiveness of the IT security defences for the House of Commons' computer systems. The system will be positioned both at the network perimeter and on each desktop computer inspecting all traffic as it...
[May 3, 2005, 10:05]
Web attack disarmed at source
News Still, Web surfers should take precautions, as the Internet underground is increasingly using this type of attack as a way to get past network defences and infect office workers' and home users' computers.
[June 28, 2004, 9:00]
Gartner: Businesses should ban the iPhone
News When end users install such tools, they effectively 'punch a hole' through the enterprise security perimeter — data can be moved across applications to personally owned devices, without the IT organisation's knowledge or control.
[June 28, 2007, 12:57]
