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Print Issue: October 01, 2009
Foiling web app attacks
“There’s a web app attack for that,” might be a suitable ad slogan for cybercriminals these days, reports Chuck Miller.
Labor pains: Health care security roundtable
As an increasing number of patient medical records go digital, health care security pros face some trying times, reports Illena Armstrong.
Certifiably trusted: Security assurance
Rob Housman of the Cyber Secure Institute advocates using only the best IT to prevent attacks, reports Dan Kaplan.
An urge to converge: Physical and logical identity and access management
The convergence of physical and logical security continues, but vital steps must still be taken, reports Angela Moscaritolo.
Leaving users unscathed after M&A
Information security as an industry sees a profusion of mergers and acquisitions. But one interesting effect from it is the need to re-evaluate the variety of business practices under which each individual business once operated before the transaction, so that refinements and more sweeping changes can be implemented and followed after they merge.
An effective incident response process
Security and privacy incidents pose real risks to companies of any size and complexity.
Threat of the month: Clampi/Ligats
Clampi (aka Ligats or Ilomo) is an information theft botnet. The malcode is a multicomponent tool that injects code into running processes, alters the PC’s configuration and, once established, begins to harvest and send sensitive information from the PC to its handlers.
The best way to remediate
We should not require all vulnerabilities to be remediated by patching, says Michael Chernin.
