Successfully resuming business operations after a significant business interruption or disaster requires a business continuity plan developed by an influential business executive, experts say. This contrasts with the reality at many organizations, where the IT executive who successfully developed the disaster recovery plan and/or the business continuity plan for IT is tapped for the broader [...]
More than one-third of IT professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
Data security company Cyber-Ark surveyed more than 400 senior IT professionals in the US and Britain, and found that 35% admitted to snooping, while 74% said they could access information that [...]
With employees concerned about being in public places and contracting the Swine Influenza (A/H1N1) Virus, many companies are looking at the possibility of telecommuting options for their employees. However, if the corporate strategy is not tested and secure, the organization risks leaving its infrastructure open to security vulnerabilities and ultimately penetration.
In order to ensure safe [...]
At the RSA conference in San Francisco, VP of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney told the conference attendees that Microsoft was planning new security offerings to ease the management of identity and authentication information. He further added that Microsoft was working on a new server initiative as part of its Geneva Project. This new [...]
Source: PCWorld.com
If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it’s John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems’ Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry’s move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also “a security nightmare.”
Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, [...]
1. Better decision making with integrated, end-to-end business intelligence ( BI )
2. Improved performance from both IT and human assets
3. Improved security
4. Increased developer productivity
5. Lower overall costs
Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to lower their IT infrastructure and IT management costs while improving employee access to the right information enabling them to make strong [...]
The demands of an always-on work environment that spans geographies and time zones is ever-increasing the pressures on IT departments to provide rich, connected capabilities across the infrastructure, while protecting both the environment and its confidential data from intrusion and disruption. The infrastructure optimization process helps organizations transform their IT infrastructures into strategic assets, reducing [...]
Internet attackers looking for ways to compromise a growing number of computers have brought back SQL Injection. Researchers are noticing a growing number of websites that have been compromised by a mass SQL Injection that take advantage of weak website apps and then use those sites as a launch pad to infect their website visitors [...]
The Abobe Flash Player has a zero day defect that is currently being targeted by attackers across the world who have set up over 200,000 webpages for exploitation of the defect. The vulnerability could be exploited to cause a denial of service ( DOS ) situation. It is reported that Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and [...]
Core Security Technologies today announced that it has been chosen by the Data Protection Summit as a Best of Show awards winner for 2008 in the category of Most Innovative Data Protection Technology for CORE IMPACT, the most comprehensive product for performing enterprise security assurance testing.
The second annual Best of Show awards is the premier [...]