May 2007 18 5 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

Dear Uncle Sam, protect my data

The months that historically see the beginnings of spring in bloom are clouded by tax deadlines, deadline extensions and, sometimes, big payouts to Uncle Sam.

Update

Company news

The Internet Security Alliance, a nonprofit forum for information sharing, has appointed Larry Clinton president. Since 2002, Clinton had served as deputy executive director and ...

Debate

Is SSL VPN a better choice for mobile email than proprietary solutions?

News briefs

A vulnerability on the website of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani could have allowed SQL injection attacks and expose confidential information. Meanwhile, the ...

2 minutes on

2 minutes on...secure code certifications

As the hacker community's penchant grows for exploiting easy-to-discover web application vulnerabilities, the SANS Institute is leading a charge to educate software programmers before they ...

Me and my job

What's your favorite part of your job?All of my job for the most part; making a difference with faculty, staff and constituents is always fulfilling. ...

Opinion

The audit/security alliance

The mature information security program is one that takes advantage of all resources that are available. The security team and the audit staff provide a ...

Go beyond checkbox security

There seems to be a disturbing trend growing in popularity called DROP (distributed responsibility of protection).

CSO's desk

Work with other departments outside of the IT tower

During my discussions with other CISOs, the common thread among the truly successful is an ability to communicate with non-IT department heads. By seeking the ...

Letters

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Features

IT security and education: Schools around the country find the right technology to protect networks

If you want to learn something about security, who better to talk with than an IT professional at an educational institution? After all, they deal ...

Special section: IT security and education

Barely had the first week in 2007 been kicked off when news of a hacker gaining access to a college's network, and perhaps employees' private ...

Product section: USB security and wireless security management

This month, we continued to see innovative approaches to security in the labs. We concentrated on two areas: reviewer Justin Peltier ran several wireless security ...

For managed MPLS-based network migrations to be truly successful, enterprises must apply due diligence

In the enterprise world, data packets arriving a few milliseconds behind schedule can seem like an eternity for latency-sensitive applications. So it should come as ...

The era of the big research lab is over, as market pressures gain influence over product development

Imagining what a high-tech security research center looks like might trigger for some people a vision of a huge laboratory with teams of scientists working ...

Cover story: The SAFE standard makes signing documents via a computer a reality

Companies working within the pharmaceutical industry are extremely secretive with their intellectual property. This can make any attempt to share information, particularly patient data, difficult.

IT security and education: One high-profile public school district adds a focus on data security

When two 17-year-old Washington, D.C. students used school computers to plan a sexual tryst two summers ago, little did they know a cutting-edge security solution ...

IT security and education: Wireless IT should focus on secure communications rather than secure networks

When you're responsible for securing a wireless network connecting staff and over 23,000 students to resources at a major university — like I am — ...

Last Word

Should police be allowed to hack?

Criminals use computers. Police forces around the world use computers, too. But when police need to investigate a possible crime, the methods they are allowed ...