October 2005 Issue of SCMagazine

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Special Report - Katrina demonstrates need for disaster recovery plans

Leaving in its wake immense destruction and huge financial impact, Hurricane Katrina reaffirmed the criticality of up-to-date disaster recovery plans to keep people safe and ...

Skills in Demand

Skills in demand

This month, Jeff Combs of Alta Associates, Inc., focuses on how interest in risk management is affecting job growth.

Me and my job

Opinion

Opinion - Without clarity you will fail

Some readers will recall that I can be a bit picky when using terms to describe things. We run into confusion when we are vague ...

CSO's desk

Tactics, strategy and the CSO

As a security professional, I spend time researching the latest issues, threats and hacking techniques. For pleasure, however, I read mostly military history – which, ...

Letters

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Features

Get it together

Whether you have a SOX problem or a HIPAA ailment, it is becoming more tempting to enlist a SIM. But beware what you’re buying into. ...

Case Study - Safe as houses

Bob Baucom, director of operations and technology at Consolidated Multiple Listing Service in Columbia, S.C., heard lots of horror stories from others in the real ...

Take the pain out of patching

It is a constant race to keep up with the virus writers as they push out exploits for newly published vulnerabilities. <i>René Millman</i> looks at ...

Zotob’s day

It was just another PnP hole until virus writers got hold of it. <i>David Quainton</i> follows the return of the network worm

Get it together

Your systems kick out a vast number of logs, but it’s getting harder to make sense of them. <i>Jim Carr</i> looks at the new face ...

How visa made a safer internet

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is making online payments safer for everyone. <i>Marcia Savage</i> talks to Visa’s risk guru

Safe as houses

Listings systems are great for realtors. But the move to web-based apps has brought a greater need for security, reports Marcia Savage

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