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The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)

whitepaper Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises of confidential data: of the 321 information security breaches...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper The need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has been a rude wake up call for thousands of companies who believed their networks are secure and safe from security breaches.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Security breaches down - but at what price?

News A government-sponsored security survey reports that while the number of security breaches has dropped considerably in the past two years, the drop has come at a price. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published yesterday to coincide...

Tags: breach, data

[23 Apr 2008]

360 ° Network Access Control With TippingPoint NAC

whitepaper Yet, for all of the deployment of perimeter security firewalls, application security gateways, ID management systems, desktop protection software, and other network security devices, major network breaches leading to loss of personal privacy...

Tags: application security tools

[28 Feb 2008]

Careless homeworkers increase security risks

Careless homeworkers increase security risks

News Careless remote and home-working staff are opening up corporate IT networks to an increased risk of damaging security breaches. Kevin Fitzpatrick, European CIO for Sodexho, said: "Risks increased when we moved away from mainframes and proprietary...

Tags: homeworkers, cio jury, security, opening

[08 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News The ongoing data loss fiasco in government continued with a raft of new breaches being revealed across government departments and NHS Trusts. Is online TV throttling broadband networks? Most favoured more 'grown up' networks such as LinkedIn or Plaxo.

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Demystifying Web 2.0: Opportunities, Threats, Defenses

whitepaper Legal prosecution -- for illegal activities or regulatory breaches Resource waste -- as servers and networks become congested Data leaks -- as staff members intentionally share things they shouldn't Every new technology introduced into the...

Tags: firewalls, threats, threat, spyware

[12 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment The bad news is that adopting such applications opens up potential breaches. Technical fire walling for media sharing, blogs, instant messaging, social networks and syndication feeds. And you're seeing video just take off at tremendous speeds...

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

TJX data heist was "inevitable", says report

News The privacy commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, said in the report: "The company collected too much personal information, kept it too long and relied on weak encryption technology to protect it - putting the privacy of millions of its...

Tags: cyber crime, security, data breach

[27 Sep 2007]

IT security breach pitfalls named

News We have an endless arms race as the hackers get better and better.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of information...

Tags: cybercrime, malware, security

[18 Sep 2007]

Data leaks - Europe readies new rules

News As part of its review of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communication networks and services, the EC is proposing specific requirements for providers of electronic communications to warn on certain breaches of security and to inform users.

Tags: isp, europe, full disclosure

[02 Aug 2007]

US Homeland Security CIO blamed for security "incidents"

News The IT chief told the politicians: "Those are events that we report on as a data-gathering tool," adding that he was confident all breaches considered significant had been addressed properly. Those episodes included unauthorised users hooking up...

Tags: cio, security, dhs

[21 Jun 2007]

'Laptop security? Never heard of it...'

News However, Stuart Okin, UK head of security at Accenture, said that approach isn't right for everybody and in businesses reliant upon distributed networks of partners it can prove impractical. Despite rising levels of laptop theft and high-profile...

Tags: security, wi-fi, laptop

[11 May 2007]

CIO Essentials: Data breaches, NHS and network abuse

News There seem to be more and more examples of data breaches being reported in the media. Are corporate networks wide open to abuse? It will affect some people's faith in IT but we need to be open about the issues to ensure that data protection is...

Tags: alan brown, cio essentials

[24 Apr 2007]

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Security360 With Mike Nash: Managing Privacy in Your Organization

whitepaper With new online threats emerging everyday, businesses have to be vigilant in how they think about, plan for, and manage their Information Technology (IT) infrastructures and networks to guard against unwanted intrusions, data thefts, and other...

Tags: network security, protecting, protect, plan

[14 Apr 2007]

McAfee moves to arrest corporate data loss

News The threat of data loss has become an increasingly high profile issue in recent years, with government departments, public sector organisations and large and small businesses all suffering security breaches or data theft.

Tags: security breach, data breach, breach, data loss

[06 Feb 2007]

Sandstorm Secures Enterprise Networks Using Embedded MySQL

whitepaper Existing network monitoring and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) cannot provide all the information that network managers need to pinpoint network problems and investigate security breaches. Instead, users are forced to manually inspect network...

Tags: network security, monitoring, intrusion detection systems, forced

[11 Oct 2006]

CIO Jury: Employees are biggest security headache

News Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham, said unwitting security breaches such as writing down passwords, not logging out of unattended PCs and downloading software are the greatest threat.

Tags: security, cio jury

[28 Apr 2006]

Securing the Network for GLBA Compliance

whitepaper Since the GLBA was passed, failures to protect internal networks and customer and financial data have created costly and embarrassing security breaches for financial services companies. Because Peakflow X is specifically designed to ensure proper...

Tags: compliance, glba, privacy, addresses

[27 Sep 2005]

Encrypting Critical Data in Databases: An Overview of the Database Integration

whitepaper As the incidence and severity of security breaches continues to grow, it is increasingly incumbent upon organizations to begin encrypting data inside the enterprise. Ingrian offers breakthrough solutions that make it practical to encrypt critical...

Tags: continues, risks, policy, platforms

[22 Sep 2005]

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