June 2007 18 6 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

This month's special test offerings

Welcome to our Malware Special, in which our product reviews cover solutions that can help you address one of the granddaddies of internet security threats. ...

Update

Company news

Exploit Prevention Labs, a web security firm, has promoted Chris Weltzien to president. He previously served as chief operating officer since the company was founded ...

Debate

Is endpoint security a more complete solution for corporations than NAC?

News briefs

Fed breach lawA federal ID theft task force backed a breach notification law on government use of personal information. The President's Identity Task Force, co-chaired ...

2 minutes on

The cost of e-gold falling

If you felt the floor shake after the feds helped indict the owners of e-gold on money laundering charges, it might be attributable to an ...

Me and my job

How do you explain your job to non-technical people?I'd say that I'm the person where the "buck stops here." My semi-official role is to be ...

Opinion

Measures, metrics and management

Why is it that two restaurateurs can take the same basic ingredients, but create dishes that invoke such opposing reactions from customers: one dish bland ...

Secure the whole business

A natural way of achieving security is to focus on the business basics: identifying your customers; ensuring that they can do everything they need to ...

CSO's desk

Strengthen the PCI Data Security Standard

Recently, there has been a lot of focus in the financial, security and merchant world on a few high-profile breaches of data security. The TJX ...

Letters

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Features

Product section: Anti-malware management, anti-spyware and anti-virus

To the perhaps clichéd title of this months column, we can add bots, root kits, spyware and other assorted beasties that now crawl the internet. ...

How IT departments are securing instant messaging

Once considered a peripheral communication tool used primarily by only some workers, instant messaging (IM) is now feared by many as a security hazard. For ...

Google Apps has its advantages, but is it secure?

Can Google guarantee safe, secure online word processing and spreadsheet collaboration applications to enterprises? While only time will tell, the short answer appears to be ...

Educating the masses for IT security

Never mind the Fourth of July, New Year's Eve or even his birthday. The occasion George Dolicker celebrated most merrily last year was International Computer ...

Last Word

Are your IT security and physical security teams working well together?

Years ago, a friend's e-commerce company took a major hit when customer credit card information was stolen from the company database. Everyone initially assumed it ...