Security Best Practices: Archive: May 2004

Simplified Secure Access Management with CRYPTOCard

Delivering secure end user access needn't be a pain for your IT staff. Vince Barnes takes a look at a technology that delivers toughened security while dispensing with the complexity.

XP SP2 Launch Price: $300 Million

Microsoft gears up for the launch of security-centric Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Korgo Worm Targets LSASS Flaw

The detection of a new network worm is a clear indication that users have still not applied Microsoft's MS04-011 update.

Microsoft Plans Security Perks for SQL Server 2005

Microsoft is peeling away the layers of SQL Server 2005, unveiling new native security encryption and decryption support, as well as government security certification.

Integrated Disk-based Backup at JetBlue

Like many growing companies, JetBlue Airways struggled with an ever-lengthening backup window. By adding disk-based backup, the airline cut its backup window by half and reduced the labor involved by IT personnel.

Windows XP SP2 Inches Closer

Microsoft moves to squash some last-minute bugs and meet the deadline for a full release of the Windows security overhaul.

Ballmer Beats Security Drum

Amidst security-centric assurances from CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft releases an upgrade to Web Services Enhancements and details of its coming ISA Server 2004.

Security to Dominate at Microsoft's TechEd

The topic will be everywhere, from chief executive Steve Ballmer's opening keynote to the individual breakout sessions.

AirDefense Secures the Wireless Perimeter

In the rush to go wireless, administrators will find that they must supplement standard security measures with serious reporting and policy-enforcing products. Count AirDefense among them.

CAN-SPAM Gets Mixed Reviews in Senate Testimony

Less than five months after the passage of the CAN-SPAM Act, government and industry representatives give it a mixed bag of reviews.

Spam Foes Worry New FTC Rule Not Enough

Spam foes say the FTC's new crack down on pornographic spam is a step in the right direction, but they worry that the new law will be largely ignored.

FTC Requires Warning Labels on Pornographic Spam

The Federal Trace Commission Wednesday passed a rule calling for all pornographic spam to carry a warning label.

Symantec Eyes Enterprise with Brightmail Buy

Symantec Corp., a giant in the information security space, bought anti-spam leader Brightmail Inc. on Wednesday in a bid to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise.

Your Data is Your Business -- Protect It

If you run your business without a data backup plan, you're playing with fire. Learn the first steps you can take to safeguard your business.

WS-I Clears Basic Security Hurdle

Working group moves closer to making Web services security a crucial assurance for commercial businesses.

Scanning at the Point of Entry

Security software provider Perfigo says its new component can help prevent infections on the network caused by mobile workers returning home with a worm or virus.

IT Survival: Asset Management and Disaster Recovery

Mike Houghton explores how proper asset management and a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan can save administrators time, money and their sanity.

Cisco Confirms Stolen IOS Source Code

A corporate network breach leads to leaked proprietary code, but a company official says confidential customer data and financial systems weren't compromised.

RSA Offers Standalone Federated Identity Manager

Identity security products vendor RSA announces new software designed to interoperate with other identity and access management products.

Critical Enterprise Data 'Flawed'

A new Gartner report finds much of the data corporations rely on today leads to poor decision making and wasted dollars.

Windows Server 2003: Hardware-Based Security

We examine security in Windows Server 2003 and explore hardware-based cryptography options, with an emphasis on products from Rainbow-Chrysalis and nCipher.

Survey Says: Businesses Don't Update Spam Filters

When's the last time you updated your company's anti-spam software? If you're like more than a third of other business owners, the answer is never.

Sentryware Upgrades Transaction Gateway Appliance

The latest version of Sentryware's HTTP transaction gateway appliance is designed to make configuration easier and to better secure bidirectional transactions.

Report Raps Cisco's Security

Cisco is improving security features but complex network management is still problematic and other vendor's products are far superior.

Case Study: Banking on Proactive Information Security

The Bank of Alameda in Alameda, Calif., has put in place a secure infrastructure that can be managed by a small IT staff and which leverages state-of-the-art tools in automated remediation management.

Hopes High Sasser Author Arrest Ends 'Worm War'

Analysts are hoping that last Friday's arrest of the alleged author of the virulent Sasser worm will put an end to the 'worm war' that has been hammering anti-virus vendors and IT shops for the past several months.

Analyst: Security Woes Add to Windows Cost

Gartner's John Pescatore believes enterprises must include the cost of protecting Windows when considering alternatives.

Biometrics Makes Passwords Positively Paltry

Thanks to lower price points in the hardware and some clever work by systems integrators, the day when your software prompts you for a fingerprint may come sooner than you expected.

'Critical' Buffer Overflow Found in Eudora

Users of the venerable e-mail client are at risk of buffer overflows.

MS to Help Zap Worms Automatically

Microsoft is working on a plan to distribute worm removal tools within automatic updates by the end of this year.

New PKWARE Products Feature Secure Data Transfer

Data compression software vendor PKWARE announces SecureZIP, a line of products designed to ensure secure data transfer.

The Cost of Phishing Hits $1.2 Billion

The wider impact to the enterprise is an erosion of consumer trust, a new Gartner research study suggests.

Improving Disaster Recovery Without Breaking the Bank

FleetBoston Financial recently took on its disaster recovery time. Our Datamation reporter takes a look at how the company improved its system without breaking the bank.

Under the Radar: IM Emerging as a Stealth Threat

Instant messaging has moved out of your kid's bedroom and into the office next door. And this could spell trouble for your network security administrator. First, though, they have to know it's there -- and many don't.

Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam

Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.

Check Point Directing Security to Web Applications, End Points

Check Point Software enhances its perimeter protection with add-ons to two existing products and a new Web security gateway.

AirDefense: Wireless Security for Enterprises

In the rush to go wireless, administrators will find that they must supplement standard security measures with serious reporting and policy-enforcing products. Count AirDefense among them.

IT Burden Forces Security Outsourcing

Historically, enterprises have remained leery of taking care of network security anywhere but in-house. But those ideas may finally be changing.

Sasser Worm Spreading Rapidly

A new internet virus spreading rapidly around the world may already have infected millions of computers, the BBC reported Sunday.

Sasser Worm Reined But Variants Sprout

Experts continue to stress the importance of applying Microsoft's MS04-011 patch.

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