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Security News: Archive: February 2003 

Xacta Unveils New Risk Management Software

Long a supplier of regulatory compliance software to the U.S. government, enterprise risk management vendor Xacta targets the commercial market with the latest version of Commerce Trust.

Microsoft Offers Security Tool for Pending Server

UPDATE: The new rights management technology will provide additional document protection for enterprises and employees.

Tumbleweed Unveils Anti-Spam Service

Messaging security vendor Tumbleweed Communication announces an anti-spam service that builds on the capabilities of the company's Secure Mail 5.5 software.

CSC Offers Virus, Spam, Porn Blocking Software

The IT oursourcing giant looks to keep suspect e-mail from infiltrating the networks of its enterprise clients by offering MessageLabs' blocking applications.

Lindows.com Offers Antivirus Service

The operating system maker provides an antivirus service to customers of its operating system.

CipherTrust Boosts Spam Detection Features of IronMail

CipherTrust announces a new release of its IronMail secure email appliance that adds new spam-fighting features intended to drive up spam detection rates while reducing false positives.

Nortel Brings SSL to Alteon, Passport Switches

Nortel Networks announces new switches and switch modules that bring SSL acceleration and SSL-based virtual private network capabilities to its Alteon and Passport switch lines.

Tallying the 'Pest' Toll

RAT, Commercial RAT, Nuker, Mail Bomber, IRC War. No, these are not the handles of players in some ultra-violent computer game. Rather, they are 'pests,' and they are a growing security problem, according to PestPatrol Inc.

PKWare Makes Progress on Enterprise-wide Encryption

With a series of announcements over the past couple of weeks that culminates later this month with a joint announcement with RSA Security, PKWare is making headway on its vision of seeing the ubiquitous ZIP format used enterprise-wide for file encryption as well as compression.