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Featured White Paper: Creating an AUP: Common myths & mistakes

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is the bedrock of any organisation’s management of employee IT use. However, many organisations underestimate the importance of tailoring the AUP to their specific needs or place their business at risk by using outdated or inadequate policies. Click Here

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    But Harbour said Google seems not to have learned from similar privacy controversies with past product launches, including the Google Talk instant messaging service.Google users have high expectations of the company, Harbour said.
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Ssl • Social Networking • Protect • Gmail • Federal • Facebook

  • EU Parliament report attacks Internet piracy

    Earlier this year the European Parliament blocked an agreement to share citizens' personal financial data with US authorities, the so-called SWIFT affair, named after a money transfer company responsible for trillions of euros in transfers each…
    18 March 2010
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  • UK police push for end to domain name abuse

    The country-code top-level domain registry that administers ".eu", Eurid, has one to two staff members that check for malicious domain name registrations from its registrars, said Herman Sobrie, legal manager for Eurid.Eurid does require its…
    18 March 2010
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  • Zeus malware weakens as ISP support is choked

    After an international take-down effort, a rogue ISP responsible for controlling large numbers of computers infected with data-stealing code is down for the moment, but it may be reconnecting with the Internet, according to security researchers.
    18 March 2010
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  • Hackers offered $100,000 for browser and phone exploits

    Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 (£65,000) the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference.
    17 March 2010
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  • IBM adds test and development to public cloud

    IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said. IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Software Development • Red Hat • Rational Software • Private Cloud

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  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    From there they accessed the Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents.In our doomsday scenario, a Google employee merely installs a rogue application on the network that allows external attackers - say, an unfriendly nation state with a grudge - to…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Such plug-ins not only introduce new security risks, but they also narrow the audiences of the resulting pages.One way HTML 5 solves this problem is by aligning itself more closely with related markup languages.
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Tag • Stage • Scalable • Rendering • Languages • Consortium

  • Why Google Android beats the Apple iPhone

    Some code that works on the Droid will "FC" on the Nexus One.I think Google worked hard to future-proof its API, and the company certainly did a better job than Apple of planning for tablets and other bigger screens with different sizes.
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Scripts • File System • Fear • Distribute • Deeper • Api

  • Business needs new IT blood

    She had been laid off from a job as a machine operator at a soap company and he had quit his job on the assembly line at a manufacturer of doors and windows to take another job that didn't work out. ING Direct and Reed Elsevier (the parent company…
    02 March 2010
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  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    The company also announced a program two years ago to open its hypervisor to security vendors with a set of APIs making it easier to protect virtual machines, but VMware has not moved fast enough on this front in the eyes of some observers.Some…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Security and the rise of corporate espionage

    What can I offer you of a practical nature, so that this is something more than another exercise in "I told you so.Well, not to belabour the point, but I refer you again to Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost.Yes, two years ago, two years before the…
    01 March 2010
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  • How to break your bad tech habits

    Goodbye, protection.You need a password manager, a heavily fortified database for important data such as passwords, PINs, and Social Security numbers. During the setup process, some programs ask if you also want to install, say, trial versions of…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Sync • Locked • Icons • Handy • Care • Calendar

  • How to protect your banking online

    The money is then transferred to "money mules," often recruited over Internet job boards, who unwittingly help fraudsters all the while they work for a legitimate company.The use of electronic funds transfers—such as the increasing volume of…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • How to ensure your network security

    But I still consider the infrastructure mature, since we have processes in place for monitoring the network and conducting investigations once we do implement endpoint security technology.Trouble ticketAt issue: The company's intellectual property…
    09 March 2010
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  • How to stop P2P data breaches

    How to stop P2P data breaches Tony Bradley Three tips that will ensure your company meets security mandates How-Tos While no company wants to have confidential information exposed to unauthorised users on the web, many businesses, depending on the…
    26 February 2010
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  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    My company, Special Ops Security, as part of its assessments with organizations and government agencies, will run controlled experiments where we intentionally phish targeted individuals at a company and track both click-through and captured…
    24 February 2010
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  • How to get an Apple iPad for work

    Thanks to the iPhone configuration tool and some work my company did to set up a web-based configuration option for our existing iPhones and iPod touches, setting the tablets up should not only be a snap, but if need be, a user could completely…
    19 February 2010
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Reviews

  • Acer Aspire 8940G-6865 review

    You get NTI's Media Maker and Backup packages, Microsoft Works, and limited use trialware versions of several different apps, including Microsoft Office and McAfee's Internet Security.The Acer also offers some thoughtful usability touches.
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Viewing • Usability • Transport • Playback • Intel Core • Battery Life

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    However, if you want to integrate your SSL VPN across other directory services besides Active Directory, UAG may not work well for you.Endpoint security: Works fine on WindowsEndpoint security is a commonly-used feature in SSL VPNs because it…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Portal • Microsoft Windows • Endpoint • Credentials • Checking • Active Directory

  • PGP Whole Disk Encryption review

    PGP has been around since 2002, but the company's roots go back to 1991, when the code base for Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) was developed. The company offers a wide variety of products that help users encrypt data files, e-mails and many other types…
    10 February 2010
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  • iStorage diskGenie review

    As the employee cannot change his own passcode, let alone the Admin passcode, there's no chance of the company being locked out of its own device in the event the employee leaves and hands back a drive that has had its passcodes reset.The flipside…
    01 February 2010
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  • Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 review

    But the app also fared poorly in behavioural analysis tests that measure how well a security program can identify malware based on how it acts. The company doesn't offer any program without a firewall, so you'll get one with Antivirus Pro (although…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Antivirus • Apps • Detection • Signature • Block • Standalone

  • Trend Micro AntiVirus Plus AntiSpyware 2010 review

    Last year, the company's security suite only detected 69.3 percent of AVTest's samples.But this year, most of the apps we looked at nailed this test with detection rates over 99 percent, and Trend Micro's improved signature-based detection rate…
    20 January 2010
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White Papers

  • A buyer's guide to hosted security

    Information security remains the number one concern of CIOs, both in the UK and the US. Just as the government's first priority is national defence, the IT department has to protect trade secrets and the company's brand reputation, employees and…
    09 February 2010
    Tags: Guide • Failures • Evaluate • Defence • Cios • Benefits

  • Oracle identity federation

    As a result, exposing business functions to partners over standards-based, federated trust relationships is no longer an innovation but rather a norm for any company doing business online.Find out how to significantly reduce the need to manage…
    13 October 2009
    Tags: Functions • Identity • Exchange • Directory • Federation • Standardsbased

  • Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

    IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data or company…
    02 October 2009
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  • Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

    Ipswitch WhatsUp Case Study Group Security and Infrastructure Manager, Paul Sylvester and his team of five are responsible for monitoring the needs of the company's 5,000 employees across some 96 servers spread out throughout the globe in…
    20 April 2009
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  • A short guide to masking, obfuscating and scrambling production data

    Increased legislation, company fines, highly embarrassing data loss and data theft are forcing all companies to take a look at how they use production data for development and testing. This has obvious security issues but also has several…
    01 February 2009
    Tags: Departments • Copies • Production • Images • Offshore • Eyes

  • New insider threat emerges in the new economy

    Information security experts are bracing for the law of unintended consequences to swing into action in 2009 as layoffs, downsizing and low morale bring the worst out of trusted insiders looking to profit off of proprietary intellectual property…
    27 January 2009
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