Peer to peer approaches work for a variety of different technologies. But can P2P work for serious network security? A company called InfoExpress thinks so with the use of Dynamic Network Access Control (NAC). Network Access/Admission Control technologies, commonly referred to as NAC, typically involve either hardware infrastructure or client-side software approaches in order to [...]
Neighborhood Watch for Network Security?
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Symantec Touts Professional Anti Phishing Effort
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Symantec is relaunching the antiphishing industry group gained via its 2005 acquisition of WholeSecurity and promising to bring a more professional approach to the effort while signing on some well-known participants.
Dubbed as the Symantec Phish Report Network, the effort builds on the network of companies previously brought together by WholeSecurity to share information about phishing [...]
Voice Network Security - Strategies for Control
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
The rapid telecommunications changes, driven by VoIP, that have taken place have created significant concerns for fraud detection and prevention, unauthorized access and content privacy. Voice systems have evolved into an integrated piece of the corporate network. With this evolution and increased complexity of these systems, there are direct implications for security management.
Wireless Vendors Tout Security, VoIP At Interop
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Wireless vendors at Interop Las Vegas 2006 this week are pushing new products to expand enterprise wireless LAN rollouts and are spotlighting the VoIP and security features of their latest wares.
Meru Networks is targeting enterprise wireless deployments with its Wireless Backbone System and announcing its latest round of funding, while Trapeze Networks is launching new [...]
When do you require remote disaster recovery options?
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Failing over across a wide-area network is never an easy thing to contemplate. If a single system fails, you will probably fail to a local server instead, keeping your users close to the data systems they’re using. If multiple systems fail at once, you may have to fail over to another site.
When putting together your [...]
Network access control makes steady progress
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Network access control was a hot topic at last year’s Interop show, despite an evolutionary state that was barely protozoic. But new developments from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and pure-play vendors such as Vernier Networks and InfoExpress could soon enable the technology to crawl out of the muck and take its place on enterprise [...]
Password Recovery Speeds
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
[i]How long will your password stand up[/i]
This document shows the approximate amount of time required for a computer or a cluster of computers to guess various passwords. The figures shown are approximate and are the maximum time required to guess each password using a simple brute force "key-search" attack, it may (and probably will) be [...]
Protect Your Network From Instant Messaging Risks
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Business users are clamoring for IM, but many network architects turn a cold eye to it because of security dangers such as worms, spam, phishing attacks, unauthorized release of sensitive data, etc. Yet, according to a December 2005 Gartner report, by 2010, 90 percent of business users with business e-mail accounts will have IT-controlled IM [...]
Firefox drops Places feature; security patch coming soon
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
The open-source Mozilla project this week plans to release an update to its Firefox browser that will fix a publicly disclosed security issue in the software. News of the update came as developers also confirmed that they were dropping a highly anticipated bookmarking feature, called Places, from the next major Firefox release, due later this [...]
Smart Cards for Traveling Users
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Offsite employees of an organization need to be able to connect to the office network as securely as possible when using the Internet to make a connection. Employees need to be able to connect to the office from more than one computer when they are on the go. These computers will most likely be in [...]