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Encryption not the key to data security
News Another survey by security company CheckPoint found just under half of IT chiefs have deployed encryption within their organisations. Policies, processes and a "corporate ethos" of care of data are more important in securing sensitive information... [07 Dec 2007]
Wireless LANs wide open to 'drive-by' hackers
News RSA advises users of such networks to ensure they have the encryption activated and ensure that the wireless LAN connection points are outside the firewall, to avoid the risk of compromising the entire company. [15 Nov 2001]
IBM building security into chips
News Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to hard wire encryption technology into a microprocessor, promising a more secure way to store data. The encryption and decryption happens on-the-fly, without any processor overhead, the company said. [10 Apr 2006]
Transparent Data Encryption
White Paper One solution is to encrypt the sensitive data in the database and store the encryption keys in a separate location; without the keys, any stolen data is worthless. However, one must strike a balance between two contradictory concepts: the... [11 Oct 2006]
TCP/IP Over Satellite: Optimization Vs. Acceleration
White Paper BNO maximizes the data throughput across satellite links, as well as any other broadband connection, enabling enterprise applications to run with maximum security (in IPSec tunnel mode with AES 256-bit encryption) and maximum performance (ALL data... [02 Aug 2007]
Why You Need Email Encryption: Use Case Scenarios
White Paper In this web seminar, Proofpoint product manager Andrew Vu presents real world case studies about organizations that have deployed Proofpoint's unified data loss prevention and email encryption solutions. [05 Aug 2008]
silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign
News CEOs of organisations such as content and document protection company Workshare, data encryption company PGP and the National Consumer Council have also shown support. silicon.com has won a significant victory in its Full Disclosure campaign to... [31 Jan 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News Security professionals are united in condemning how the latest breach saw PA Consulting able to copy the data to removable media without first encrypting it, and have stressed the need to defuse the threat posed by human error by automating... [27 Aug 2008]
Laptop theft breaks data protection law
News He warned that companies must take adequate measures to safeguard data on mobile devices before they leave company premises by using password protection and encryption and said those who fail to do so risk losing the trust and confidence of both... [21 Feb 2008]
'Wi-fi thieves carried out TK Maxx data heist'
News According to The Wall Street Journal, hackers cracked the WEP encryption protocol used to transmit data between price-checking devices, cash registers and computers at a store in Minnesota. Many security experts have criticised the strength of WEP... [09 May 2007]
Renegade program stealing passwords at banking sites
News Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect log-in data, the Trojan horse program can capture the information before it gets encrypted by the browser software. What makes this one really clever is that [it takes... [30 Jun 2004]
Biggest security headache just won't go away...
News The far and wide distribution of data outside the organisation also creates problems, said Gary Clark, VP EMEA at encryption specialist SafeNet. Mark Thomas, head of security at Logicalis, told silicon.com: "One of the biggest problems is that... [29 Apr 2005]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News The breach also highlights the need for the use of better security and encryption technology. Mike Roberts, IT director for independent Harley Street hospital the London Clinic, said: "The use of encryption for the transmission and transportation... [23 Nov 2007]
New Vista preview comes out to play
News BitLocker Drive Encryption is meant to protect data on computers when lost or stolen. The full disk encryption feature is designed to work with a chip called the Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption keys... [20 Dec 2005]
Trusted computing: How it works
News The chip would include new encryption functions as well as a small amount of memory that would act as a digital vault to store important keys to decrypt protected data. The technology's security disappears when data is outside the Palladium... [08 Nov 2002]
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