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8 Best Practices for Encryption Key Management and Data Security

July 15th, 2008 · Comments Off

Data encryption is an important element of an organization’s response to security threats and regulatory mandates. What many organizations are finding is that while encryption is not difficult to achieve, managing the associated encryption keys across their lifecycle quickly becomes a problem that creates a new set of security vulnerabilities and risks making important data [...]

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Free Honeypot Client Could Sting Malware

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

The Honeynet Project has released a new freebie honeypot client tool that lets security pros and researchers automatically detect and dissect bot infections and other malware attacks on client machines.

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What Firewalls Do & Donot Do

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

Over the last few years, security threats have grown and altered dramatically and so have the defences. Traditional firewalls, installed over three years ago, are often not best suited for current threats and don’t protect against a number of newer threats.

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WhiteHat: 90% of Sites Still Vulnerable

March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

After years of fighting the hacker wars, today’s Websites are still a long way from being secure, according to a new research report.

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Red Hat releases free security code

March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Red Hat is freeing up the source code behind its identity management and security system in a bid to show that open source software is more secure than rival technologies..

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Dude, where is my perimeter?

March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

At one time, IT departments concerned themselves with hardening the perimeter. The idea was Medieval: build a fortress around yourself and don’t let outsiders in. Then came remote workers. Then chat apps. Then Web mail. And then mobile devices.

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Protecting Your Systems

January 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

Anyone who tells you that your IT network is ‘100% secure’ is either a fool, or greatly mistaken. Security is a moving target, and unfortunately, this target is being manipulated by the bad guys. With 2007 behind us, I reflect on the struggle enterprises and governments face in cyber security.

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