Security News: Archive: September 2002

IBM To Deliver New Version Of Risk Manager

IBM announces a new version of its IBM Tivoli Risk Manager that provides more automated responses to security events, improved correlation and ties in with additional third-party security applications.

Check Point Lays Out Security Management Roadmap

Add Check Point Software Technologies to the list of vendors getting into the field of centralized security event management.

Nortel Unveils New Security Architecture, Supporting Products

Nortel Networks announces an architecture meant to promote security from all angles in an enterprise network, including not only data but telephony.

IBM Pledges Support For Web Services Security

Big Blue says it will incorporate tools based on the WS-Security specification and other security standards into its WebSphere and IBM Tivoli Access Manager products in order to provide security for Web services.

New nCipher Product Targets Online Payment Card Fraud

A British-based cryptography company with U.S. offices in Boston announces a hardware-based security module intended to help banks, payment processing service providers and credit card issuers to meet emerging security standards.

Ingrian Secures iNotes Email

Security startup Ingrian Networks adds support for IBM's Lotus iNotes Web Access to the lineup of security applications supported on its security appliance, enabling iNotes users to securely exchange email via the Web and store it after the fact.

Check Point Unveils VPN, Firewall Management Tool For Large Networks

Check Point Software Technologies announces a new management tool that brings the concept of software profiles to large networks with thousands of VPN and firewall gateways.

Cisco Admits To Myriad VPN Security Vulnerabilities

Cisco Systems issues an advisory warning of 13 vulnerabilities in its Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators, ranging from flaws that allow passwords to be viewed in the clear to others that facilitate denial of service attacks.

Check Point Responds To Security Firm's Findings

A UK-based security testing firm says it uncovered separate flaws in Check Point Software Technologies' FireWall-1/VPN-1 that enable intruders to guess and to sniff valid usernames, dramatically easing their ability to break into a network. Check Point quickly dismissed the company's findings.

RSA Makes Mobile Security Push

The Bedford, Mass., firm's new product is designed to give users confidence to make business transactions, not just calls, from their mobile phones.