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On the Safety and Efficiency of Firewall Policy Deployment

whitepaper It show that naive deployment approaches can easily create a temporary security hole by permitting illegal traffic, or interrupt service by rejecting legal traffic during the deployment. Firewall policy management is challenging and error-prone.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

TollyEdge White Paper Series: Benchmarking Strategies for Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems

whitepaper The difference with WLANs is the fear and anxiety is as much about internal users logging on and connecting inappropriately to external wireless networks and therefore creating a hole. Wireless networks bring new opportunities and new challenges to...

Tags: wireless lan

[11 May 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News He said: "Each one is fully capable of creating a gaping hole in your otherwise secure network. Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware.

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News Filling this hole will be impossible while the tech industry does not appeal to 51 per cent of the population who are female, the report says. The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its ability to attract and employ more women.

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Podcast: There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery

whitepaper Open networks and supply chain integration create great business opportunities but also substantial security risks. The bad guys are using more sophisticated tools to create viruses, worms, rootkits and other attacks, and malware is spreading...

Tags: monitoring systems, vulnerability, vulnerability management, attacks

[31 Mar 2008]

Podcast: Preventing Digital Crime - Government Regulation or Industry Standards

whitepaper Part 1: There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery Digital crime incidents are rising rapidly as criminals become ever more sophisticated and ambitious. Organized crime is now taking an active role in electronic thefts.

Tags: monitoring systems, crime, vulnerability, vulnerability management

[31 Mar 2008]

Podcast: How One Organization Conquered the Audit Challenge

whitepaper Part 1: There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. With thousands of nodes spread throughout the world...

Tags: monitoring systems, vulnerability, vulnerability management, nodes

[31 Mar 2008]

Podcast: Self-auditing with Vulnerability Management

whitepaper Part 1: There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery Government and industry regulations, along with mounting security threats, are causing corporations to consider continual self-audits.

Tags: monitoring systems, self, auditing, self auditing

[31 Mar 2008]

Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…

News Wireless is the one place where cable hasn't been able to compete so far but the cable industry has been trying to plug that hole. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus

Tags: comcast, 4g, time warner, operator

[26 Mar 2008]

FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl

News IT training and recruitment company FDM has been awarded a multimillion pound contract to train staff in England's Fire and Rescue Services. FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which aims to consolidate emergency...

Tags: firecontrol, training, eads, fire

[18 Mar 2008]

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked

News However, by drilling a 0.8mm hole from the rear, the researchers inserted a 4cm needle into a flat ribbon connector socket and tapped the data. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN...

Tags: chip and pin, cambridge university, connected, entry

[27 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

Comment I fear that few chief executives realise the capacity of a data breach to hole their business below the waterline. It's been another week where silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has loomed large, with two pieces of news emphasising why I'm...

Tags: full disclosure, data, security, house of lords

[27 Feb 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News That is an enormous hole and most organisations do not even have an understanding about how much data is exiting the company. Bret Hartman has over 25 years of experience building data security systems and protocols for some of the biggest...

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday

Comment It's February and there's a red circle burning a hole in my calendar. No, nothing to do with Valentine's Day but rather the date that ends up wrecking every mobile aficionado's love life: Mobile World Congress - or 3GSM, as was.

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[10 Feb 2008]

Is There a Security Hole in Your Windows Hosting? New VERIO White Paper

whitepaper VERIO's white paper, "Sharks in the AppPool," describes serious security risks associated with shared application pooling. Many hosting companies achieve server densities by sharing AppPools. But for any customer with a Website that processes...

Tags: network security, risks, pooling, website

[15 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment Strange as it might seem, a wire loop antenna has a mirrored alternative - a plate with a hole in it. The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical. Talk to any designer of radio systems for military...

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

Top 10 weird data disasters

News Ooooops: A scientist was fed up with his hard drive squeaking, so drilled a hole through the casing and poured in oil - which stopped both the squeaking and the hard drive. This year the company has seen more damaged portable devices than ever before.

Tags: recovery, hard drive, data, laptop

[05 Dec 2007]

Photos: The best of Google Sky

Photo This galaxy is thought to be powered by a black hole at its core. The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers.

Tags: objects, image, institute, images

[28 Nov 2007]

Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans

Photo A hole was drilled through the 1.5 metre thick ice, which will later melt allowing the float to surface and transmit its stored data in early 2008. The Argo programme uses thousands of floating devices like the one pictured, which provide...

Tags: met office, global, weather, satellite

[21 Nov 2007]

An Overview of the PIM Optional Package

whitepaper The new PIM Optional Package fills that hole. Most - if not all - handheld or wireless devices manufactured today have the ability to manage information of importance to the end user, whether it's a calendar of appointments, a file of contacts, or...

Tags: application development, personal information management, interfaces, stored

[06 Nov 2007]

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