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Mobile working needs a security rethink
Insight With employees working away from the office, at home, at client sites or simply on the road, an observer wonders if they should rethink the problem of data on the move.
Tags: Firewalls, Data security, PC security, Security Management, Data, Security, Mobile, Perimeter, Survey, Computer Security Institute
Money lost to cybercrime down--again
News Survey findings that threat-related losses are dropping seem at odds with frequent doom-and-gloom headlines.
Tags: Security, Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards, windows alerts
Proactive networking
Insight Expert's view Behind our daily barrage of hacker attacks, announcements of new viruses and worms, and frequent risk of downtime is an opportunity. This is your opportunity to step away from the noise and take steps to build a more proactive network security model for your organization.
Tags: Networking, Network security
Do most security breaches still originate internally?
Techguide Are insider threats more prevalent than externally-initiated attacks? Here's why that may not be the case.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Business security, Security, Security Breach, FBI, Survey, Computer Security Institute, Attack
Insiders are biggest threats, according to cybercrime report
Insight Insiders are becoming the biggest threat in organizations, according to the annual FBI and the Computer Security Institute (CS) computer 2004 crime report. But attacks and costs are down.
Tags: Security
Study: Security spending to rise tenfold by 2011
News Companies will spend 10 times more a decade from now to secure their information against Internet attacks, according to a study released Monday by market researcher Gartner.
IT security rides offshore outsourcing wave
News U.S. companies that farm out their IT security functions report a jump in the amount of such work sent overseas.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Employee gadgets pose security risk to companies
Techguide iPods, smart phones, digital cameras and other gadgets pose a real security risk to organizations. IT managers are looking for solutions.
Tags: Hardware, Consumer Technology, Handhelds, Wireless e-mail devices, Smart phones
Hack attacks on Linux on the rise
News Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the open-source operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, a new report finds.
Bots may get cloak of encryption
News To retain control over hijacked PCs, cybercriminals will add encryption capabilities to their bots, a security expert predicts.
Tags: PC security, Authentication and encryption
U.S., financial firms create Net crime watch
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Gates vows better security for customers
News Microsoft's chairman says the software giant has taken great strides to secure its products, but acknowledged that the company is still a far cry from "Trustworthy Computing."
Meet the world's baddest cyber cops
News They're not the feds, but they're taking down hackers, organised criminals, script kiddies, and other threats to your company. A report from the front lines.
Microsoft's leaner approach to Vista security
News Microsoft is talking up Secure Startup in Windows Vista, the sole piece of its original hardware-based security plan to make it into the OS.
Tags: Longhorn, windows alerts
User policies are good first step in minimizing security risks
Insight Corporate computing espionage always hits the headlines, but the biggest enterprise risk comes from within--users not following procedures or creating network holes. One way to make your policies effective is to make sure they address user behavior.
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