Emerging products: Virtual system security
Don’t presume the vShield will protect you. That actually is not the case, says Peter Stephenson.
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Unified threat managers (UTM)
How unified is “unified”? Judging by this year’s crop of unified threat managers under review, pretty doggone unified, says Peter Stephenson.
Debate: The FTC should have the right to penalize companies for poor data security/privacy practices.
This month’s featured debate informs whether the FTC should have the right to penalize companies for poor data security/privacy practices.
Maximizing quality and reliability
Information security executives must work to “engineer” their organizations to be better, faster, cheaper – and more secure, says Rafael Diaz, CISO, state of Illinois.
Threat of the month: Java zero-day
Java zero-days are the “threat of the month,” a vulnerability that allows remote code execution via browsers.
The influence of overseas reforms
The European Union is close to implementing an information protection law that will homogenize the responsibility of all of its 27 member states, which could have a ripple effect in the U.S.
UTMs becoming universal
The UTM started out as an evolution from multipurpose devices some years back, but has now morphed into a well-defined product that has morphed again into a catch-all for security functionality.
News briefs: NY Times and Twitter hacked, cyber security executive order, and more
Security incidents at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Zaxby’s Franchising, and more.
Company news: CipherCloud, Yahoo, and Twitter’s company announcements
The latest acquisitions and personnel moves from the likes of CipherCloud, Yahoo, Marble Cloud, Twitter, and more.
Skills in demand: Penetration testers
Adam Weissman, director of legal technology at The Glenmont Group, says a significant expansion of IT infrastructures has increased demand for experienced penetration testers.
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