New Year's resolutions frequently center on starting a good habit or stopping a bad one. Such oaths should be no different for the corporate world.
Richard Stiennon has joined Fortinet, maker of multi-threat security solutions, as its chief marketing officer. He will be charged with driving the firm's market strategies ...
Is the best approach to database security monitoring traffic before it enters the database?
Vista worldVista was released to corporate customers the same day as the latest version of the companys business suite, Microsoft Office 2007. Home consumers can ...
The swearing in of the 110th Congress this month marks the end of an era for IT security-related legislation, as both authors of the Sarbanes-Oxley ...
Of what are you most proud in your job? I'm most proud of the employees of Arlington County who have adopted "common sense" cybersecurity thinking ...
Everyone's talking about their preferred security organization of the future. Whether you're a CSO, CISO, director, manager, security specialist, or whatever, you have an opinion ...
Despite increasing government data regulations to guard against information leaks and cyberattacks, security pros can no longer simply lock down corporate IT systems. Nor can ...
I recently read an excellent study about the impact of security and privacy on brand reputation and customer loyalty. I was looking for some solid ...
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Ever since the arrival of the first anti-virus software in the mid-1980s, accountants have been battling with IT managers to control and quantify the efficiency ...
There are many different names for the second Tuesday of every month: Patch Tuesday, Super Tuesday, Black Tuesday — and maybe even some other unsavory ...
If you think what you don't know won't hurt you, then you probably shouldn't be running a website. With literally hundreds of hidden security-related vulnerabilities ...
When Verdasys co-founder and CEO Seth Birnbaum was heading up engineering at NeoGenesis Pharmaceuticals, three employees thought they had a foolproof plan to steal drug ...
The way the organizers of this year's RSA Conference see it, thanks to the advent of the internet, Americans are living in the modern day ...
Ever the punching bag for hackers and security professionals, Microsoft is hoping to polish its tarnished security track record with the final release of its ...
This month, we have juxtaposed two of the foundations of information security: data protection and vulnerability assessment. On the protection side, we look at some ...
If you're part of a financial institution, chances are you've memorized the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidance chapter and verse, and, with risk ...
Rapid7 NeXpose is, generally, an impressive appliance. Although it is a hybrid (vulnerability scanner and penetration test tool), the pen tool is used specifically to ...
Impact 6.0 from Core Security is a pure penetration testing tool. It is optimized for production use and comes with a suite of pre-programmed exploits. ...
If James Bond had encryption software he would have the DriveCrypt Plus Pack. This software includes many more features than the other products in this ...
Utimaco SafeGuard Easy is just what its name promises — the package is easy enough to install that the average end-user could do it. The ...
BeCrypt Disk Protect provides for two-factor authentication and also advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption of the entire hard drive. We configured BeCrypt Disk Protect to ...
We found the combination of the REM Security Manager and the Retina Scanner to be easy to use and deploy. In fact, ease of use ...
The Tenable Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) is a most interesting product. It is truly passive in that it does not perform active scans of any ...
Last year we reviewed NetClarity’s Enterprise Auditor product and we liked it a lot. This year we looked at its little sibling, the Branch Auditor. ...
The StillSecure VAM is a solid vulnerability assessment appliance with a longstanding pedigree. The VAM also is available in a software-only version. Implementation of the ...
WinMagic Data Security’s SecureDoc Hard Disk Encryption provides advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption of the entire hard drive. SecureDoc Hard Disk Encryption also supports two-factor ...
PGP Whole Disk Encryption provides the easiest to install hard drive encryption package we tested. Both the standalone and enterprise products were easy to configure ...
The Secude Secure Notebook has the ability to authenticate the user using two-factor authentication, such as smart cards and USB tokens. The drive encryption product ...
Nessus is one of the granddaddies of vulnerability scanners. Today, Nessus is not only a powerful open source product in its own right, it is ...
We have been watching Saint a long time. Saint, as many old-timers may recall, began life as an open source version of Satan, one of ...
The ISS Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner is part of a larger security management system and, as such, shows its best performance as part of that ...
As a big fan of open source software (this entire review was written in Open Office), we were hoping that TrueCrypt would give the pay ...
