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  • Black Hat: General Michael Hayden unsurprised at cyber warfare
    In his keynote at Black Hat, 29th July 2010, retired General Michael Hayden, who served as director of the CIA and deputy director of National Intelligence, says cyber warfare was inevitable considering the internet has not been built with defense in mind.
  • Black Hat: Google knows more about citizens than Kim Jon-il
    In his thought-provoking session, entitled ‘Changing threats to privacy: From TIA to Google’, Maxie Marlinspike, researcher with the Institute for Disruptive Studies, declared that surveillance is at an all-time high, and privacy is at an all-time low.
  • Black Hat: Sixty percent of information security professionals believe they’re underpaid
    In a session entitled ‘How to manage your infosec career’ at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, 29th July 2010, Lee Kushner, president of L.J.Kushner & Associates, executive recruitment, and Mike Murray, managing partner, Mad Security, shared with the audience their advice on how to effectively manage a career in information security.
  • ISF shares its security risk predictions
    Rather than consulting a crystal ball, the Information Security Forum (ISF) looked to experts in the field – including those from its member organizations – to develop a set of security risk predictions for 2012 and beyond.
  • BlackBerry faces ban in India
    Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry service may be banned in India if the company does not resolve government concerns over security.
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Webinars

  • Networking Data Archiving – it’s a whole new data retention ballgame
    Organizations around the world are using social networking to better their customer relationships (Facebook), prospect for new business (LinkedIn) and promote their events (Twitter) but what about the archiving and retention of these business communications? You don’t archive? So why bother archiving your email? It’s all about legal and regulatory issues. And then there’s the problem of litigation.
  • Social Networking: Roadblocks, Risks, Rewards
    Facebook and Twitter usage in the workplace is going through the roof, causing major security headaches at all levels, both inside and outside the boardroom. The security issues that Web 2.0 services create are far from simple - managers need to understand not just the IT risks of data leakage, malware propagation, but also the compliance and legislative requirements.
  • How email archiving ‘in-the-cloud’ can benefit your organisation: The evolution of the archiving market
    Email use has exploded and is now the primary means of communication for organisations. Vital documents and information are passed to and from employees and the current regulatory environment means that this content needs to be archived.
  • Solving the PCI Security Puzzle: Putting the Access Control, Privilege Management, and Server Protection Pieces Together
    Complying with PCI regulations in heterogeneous environments can be a complex and costly initiative. Leveraging your existing IT infrastructure offers a simpler and cost-effective way to address the sections of the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) that matter most to IT managers – and without sacrificing manageability and productivity. Join our panel of experts for an informative webinar to learn how you can address the regulatory requirements of the PCI standards by linking all your access rights, privileges, and audit logs into a single, definitive Active Directory identity.
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Blogs

  • Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats
    Posted by Roger Halbheer • 28 July 2010
    You know my opinion on collaboration between countries, on public-private-partnerships, as well as on collaboration between companies. For quite a while we have been running a program calle...
    tags: Vulnerabilities
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  • WPA2 Exposed with 'Hole 196' Vulnerability
    Posted by Ajay Gupta • 23 July 2010
    Until now, the WPA security version known as ‘WPA2 (AES encryption) with 802.1x authentication’ was considered as one of most secure WiFi deployments by most wireless security experts...
    tags: WiFi, WPA2, Hole 196, TKIP, WiFi Security
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  • It's all about WHO
    Posted by Geoff Webb • 08 July 2010
    “I KEEP six honest serving-men  (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When  And How and Where and Who.” – Rudyard Kipling As I look at t...
    tags: Security, identity, access management
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  • Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud
    Posted by Roger Halbheer • 06 July 2010
    July 1st: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing was testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Basically the hearing was on the benefits...
    tags: Cloud, Governments
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  • Secure WiFi Networks: WiFi Alliance and Legal Authorities Coming Forward
    Posted by Ajay Gupta • 05 July 2010
      WiFi, today, has become a near ubiquitous technology, used by most of us, with our WiFi enabled gadgets, while we are at offices, homes, public places or while traveling. However, awareness ab...
    tags: WiFi Security, WiFi Alliance, WiFi, WEP, WPA, WPA2, Ad hoc
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Features

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Downloads

  • Application Whitelisting Puts HIPS in the Recycle Bin
    This analyst-authored whitepaper outlines how Application Whitelisting protects against new advanced persistent threats, automates real-time visibility of actual application usage and more.
  • Desktop Software Lockdown: Prevent Targeted Attacks
    Preventing the installation and execution of unauthorized software should be a high priority for any IT security conscious organization. Allowing users to install or execute unauthorized software can expose an organization to a variety of security and legal risks, not to mention the burden of increased support costs. This paper will compare and contrast a variety of techniques for detecting and preventing unauthorized code.
  • Cloud Application Security
    Cloud computing promises to deliver IT infrastructure services via the Internet on an “as-needed, pay-per-use” basis. Cloud resources can be provisioned on-the-fly to support specific project needs, or they can be leveraged on a longer-term basis to add capability to an existing IT infrastructure. For some companies, cloud resources even serve as the entire IT infrastructure because of the ease and speed of deployment and cost-effectiveness compared to deploying an in-house infrastructure.
  • The Challenges of Automated Application Assessments in a Web 2.0 World
    This white paper, written by two security experts from Stach & Liu, Rob Ragan and Vincent Liu, describes the challenges of automated penetration testing or application scanning of Web 2.0 applications.
  • Database Security and Compliance - Preparing for 2010 (Annual Study)
    This study reveals some eye-opening database security and compliance trends based on research from 175 enterprise organizations.
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