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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science. Security outsourcing on the rise As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way.  September 20, 2:30 p.m. PDT PayPal claims gains against phishers PayPal security chief Michael Barrett isn't ready to claim a victory in the fight against phishing schemes, but he said that his company is slowly turning the tide using a set of new partnerships and technological means. September 20, 4:23 a.m. PDT AT&T: Network perimeter security should be virtual Enterprise companies will soon begin offloading many of their network security responsibilities to telecommunications and Internet service providers and save vast amounts of time and money doing so, if AT&T has its way. September 20, 4:05 a.m. PDT Nokia expands enterprise, security offerings Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, is well known for its consumer devices but maintains a range of enterprise products. Mary McDowell is executive vice president and general manager of Nokia's Enterprise Solutions, a division that deals with products from the E Series phones to security appliances to software such as the Intellisync Mobile Suite, designed to manage a fleet of enterprise devices. She spoke with IDG News Service about Nokia's direction in several enterprise areas. The following is an edited transcript. September 19, 7:03 a.m. PDT Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Infrastructure threats: Botnets show DoS who's boss Malware-infected botnet PCs have overtaken DoS attacks as the top security issue facing Internet service providers and other Web infrastructure hosting players, according to a new survey of the organizations. September 18, 3:54 a.m. PDT Cisco says acquisitions don't impede best-of-breed Cisco executives speaking at the ongoing Security Standard Conference claim that the networking giant hasn't sapped innovation in the security companies it has acquired in its efforts to add to its own expanse of IT systems-defense products, while some customers clearly feel otherwise. September 10, 4:38 p.m. PDT Best of open source in security In areas such as CRM software and portals, open source gained a foothold because users were willing to compromise -- less could be more, because the price was right. In security, open source rushed in because commercial vendors fell down on the job. As security problems in the enterprise outstripped the capabilities of commercial solutions, a number of talented security researchers stepped into the breach via the open source model. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nokia, Intel beef up new network security appliance Nokia added a new appliance to its network security range that has more processing muscle -- the first product to come out of its collaboration with Intel. September 6, 4:43 a.m. PDT Forrester security show stresses risk management Enterprise security decision makers have long been more likely to be swayed by flashy new technologies than by the notion of comprehensive IT restructuring to protect data and other corporate assets, but the situation is evolving rapidly, according to experts participating in Forrester Research's ongoing Security Forum. September 5, 11:33 a.m. PDT FBI: Enterprises need counterintelligence The Chinese government has denied involvement in a series of hacks carried out against IT systems at the Pentagon in June this week, but the threat of technology-driven espionage has forced the FBI to push businesses and academic institutions to better prepare for such attacks. September 4, 3:45 p.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Apps security to dominate Black Hat Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Piecing together IBM's security puzzle IBM owns some of the world's leading IT security talent, products, and services, but executives with the massive company say it will likely never aim to become what people might label as a true "security vendor." July 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco pushes IronPort smarts to firewalls Cisco Systems will begin offering IronPort's security filtering tools to its firewall customers after the networking giant's acquisition of the company closes on June 25. June 22, 10:05 a.m. PDT Homeland Security to detail IT attacks Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 20 to discuss the findings of an investigation into the agency's own problems in battling electronic attacks and IT systems intrusions. June 15, 11:26 a.m. PDT Microsoft unveils integrated security Microsoft shared details of its long-term security product strategy as part of its ongoing TechEd 2007 training conference on June 4, lifting the lid on plans to deliver an integrated suite of its software by mid-2009. June 4, 7:24 a.m. PDT Companies open wallets for secure data An annual VanDyke Software-sponsored survey of IT network and systems administrators finds that businesses have increased their spending on secure data communications technologies and also have undertaken significant work to improve their internal processes to benefit security. May 22, 11:42 a.m. PDT Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down Water pumps need firewalls too. That's what operators of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's) Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant discovered last August when they were forced to manually shut down one of their plant's two reactors after networking problems caused two water pumps to fail and threatened the stability of the plant itself. May 22, 5:37 a.m. PDT Porn filters: Use 'em Incident: A friend gave me this one, and yet another surprising story because it happened only four years ago. A senior management executive calls a status meeting in his office with two midlevel managers, both of whom are female, one of whom has a law degree. The senior guy has a large office, with a small, four-person meeting table at one end near the window and his large desk and credenza at the other. He’s set up his desk so that his work area faces the interior of the office. His PC is located directly behind him on the credenza so that he has to turn around to use it. The screen faces the interior of the office. Stage set. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Document shell code attacks loom large Targeted attacks that utilize vulnerabilities in popular document file formats and execute via hard-to-find shell code are becoming an increasingly popular menace, according to researchers at IBM's Internet Security Systems division. May 2, 12:37 p.m. PDT Making sense of Websense's SurfControl buyout Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers. May 1, 11:27 a.m. PDT Nokia expands security appliance line Nokia introduced two new network security appliances on April 30, adding high- and low-end models that aim to help companies filter out malware traffic before it penetrates their IT systems. April 30, 2:17 p.m. PDT Bottom line impact of data breaches unclear Despite the fact that unwanted exposure of consumer data has become a hot-button issue in the media and among legislators nationwide, experts admit that it remains unclear just how much damage the events will cause to the finances and reputations of companies that experience major incidents. April 13, 3:01 p.m. PDT More security OEM deals to come With enterprises demanding more tightly integrated security products than ever before and pressure increasing on vendors in the space to offer as many tools as possible to win deals, experts say that an increasing number of technology providers will turn to licensing agreements to help increase their marketability. April 12, 3:57 p.m. PDT McAfee: Cyber-crime will continue to pay The latest research report from McAfee's Avert Labs paints a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators and end-users, predicting continued maturation of cyber-crime and the technological means being used to carry out external attacks. April 10, 9:00 p.m. PDT Finding security in Windows Mobile monoculture Without a doubt, the most influential factor driving the current state of IT security is the ubiquitous presence of Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system on a vast majority of the world's PCs. April 6, 4:52 p.m. PDT ShmooCon hacker event gets under way The third annual ShmooCon convention kicked off in Washington, D.C., on March 23 and will run throughout the weekend with a series of lectures and presentations covering a wide range of enterprise security issues. March 23, 2:12 p.m. PST RIM chief: Wireless security must be top priority Wireless security must be the top priority for providers doing business with the U.S. government, Research In Motion's (RIM's) president and co-CEO said Tuesday. March 20, 9:12 a.m. PST Trend Micro to release new security software Security vendor Trend Micro will release a new version of its mobile security software for Nokia smartphones next month that adds a built-in firewall and improves malware detection, the company said Thursday at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. March 15, 12:53 p.m. PST Danger inside the firewall Between the latest firewall technology and advanced intrusion detection systems, IT professionals are breathing a little easier. This is a big mistake. It may be easier to protect the network from external attack these days, but the greatest security risks still come from inside the DMZ. February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Verizon Business makes firewall more flexible Enterprises using the network-based firewall offered by Verizon Business will now be able to control it much as they would a firewall on their own networks. February 5, 6:36 a.m. PST Windows OneCare update coming worldwide Jan. 30 Microsoft will begin the international roll-out of its consumer security software on Jan. 30 when it releases a new version of Windows Live OneCare in the U.S. and 16 other countries. January 23, 5:21 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Security Given a sharp nudge from federal and state mandates, the security focus has shifted from intruders and malware to data protection and the insider threat — and the likes of Vontu, Reconnex, Oakley Networks, and PortAuthority are meeting the challenge. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Making an end run to VoIP Earlier this year, the company I work for decided to replace our aging phone system with a VoIP solution with all the bells and whistles. We looked at several systems before finally deciding on a vendor. Our in-house IT staff was extremely competent in network administration, system administration, and so on, but none of us had any hands-on experience with phone systems, let alone VoIP phones. Fortunately, “Ring-a-Ding Telecom,” the company we hired to install and support the new system, told us not to worry. The switchover would be a snap. December 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST US government IT leaders feel more secure More than half of IT leaders in the U.S. government are more confident about their agencies' cybersecurity capabilities than they were two years ago, according to a survey released Monday. November 13, 9:11 a.m. PST Steal my data, please Last year I landed a job as assistant IT manager at a midsize university. The network there was a typical mix of NetWare and Windows servers, with one big surprise: Our most critical database, the one that handled dorm-room assignments and payment records for the Housing Department, was still running on a Windows NT4 server, long after Microsoft had dropped support for the platform. October 31, 3:00 a.m. PST Breach Security acquires rival firewall ModSecurity Breach Security will acquire Thinking Stone, which develops and provides support for an open-source Web application firewall called ModSecurity, the companies announced Monday. September 25, 5:38 a.m. PDT NetScreen firewall: Five-star security I’ve been using and configuring firewalls for 10-plus years -- perimeter, software, hardware, Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Until recently, I’ve never had occasion to try or use a Juniper Networks NetScreen firewall, although it always gets good reports on security mail lists. I’ve used many similar firewalls, and found little difference among vendors or their products. But after one experience with the NetScreen, I’ll never use another vendor’s firewall. Let me tell you why. August 31, 9:39 a.m. PDT Nokia appliances to get a snort of Sourcefire Nokia plans to integrate Sourcefire's intrusion prevention software into its line of network security appliances by year-end. August 29, 5:58 a.m. PDT Juniper crams security tools into appliances Juniper Networks is delivering on a promise to pack lots of security features into its firewalls and appliances for medium-sized businesses and branch offices. August 28, 3:28 p.m. PDT Microsoft delivers stronger security and simpler patching Microsoft's been up to several things in the past week or so. Not the least surprising was the company's invite to Mozilla developers to come up to Redmond and make sure that Firefox and Thunderbird run correctly on Vista. Microsoft also took Small Business Server 2003 R2 out of circulation with a sudden recall. But the company tossed a few new things out there for IT managers, too, just to balance the scales. Unfortunately, they both require some upgrade time. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco can't reproduce Black Hat flaw Cisco Systems has been unable to reproduce a security flaw reported in its PIX firewall appliance earlier this month, the networking company said Tuesday. August 16, 4:39 a.m. PDT Unpatched flaw revealed in Cisco firewall Cisco Systems just can't seem to make it through the Black Hat USA conference unscathed. On Wednesday a security researcher showed how an unpatched vulnerability in the company's PIX firewall appliances that could allow outside attackers to gain access to corporate networks. August 4, 4:20 a.m. PDT Super firewall aims to stop DDOS Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to shut it down. July 13, 5:53 a.m. PDT Researchers find 'Great Firewall of China' workaround A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge claims to have found a way to circumvent China's Internet content controls, but some doubt whether their findings really offer a breakthrough. July 5, 4:34 a.m. PDT Top Layer Mitigator 5500 nails the IPS basics We’ve seen the gambit of intrusion detection and prevention devices on the market, but Top Layer Networks’ Mitigator IPS 5500 is a little different. For one thing, its management interface is downright dull. June 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Vista: Evolutionary or revolutionary? Since Part One of my little Vista venture last week, I've received a few not-so-nice e-mails from folks telling me to make sure I prove to them that Vista will really be revolutionary rather than evolutionary. For the most part, that's a subjective term. If you're a rabid, anti-Redmond Penguin palooka, nothing will seem revolutionary. But for folks moving from Windows XP to Vista, you're really going to see a difference. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sophos upgrades security package Sophos has incorporated several new features in a security software package released Wednesday that allows network administrators to manage security for thousands of computers from a single console. June 7, 9:21 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Andrew Nash During his 10-year stint at RSA security, Andrew Nash worked hard developing identity and access management technologies, wrote a book on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and co-authored several security standards. But one day, in the middle of an RSA presentation, he realized he was “bored to tears” and decided to focus on fresh security challenges better suited to an emerging Web services world. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft ships Windows Live OneCare Microsoft is set to release a fully supported version of its Windows Live OneCare software, marking its entry into the security software market. May 31, 4:08 a.m. PDT SecureSphere Database Security Gateway fortifies your database The scenario is simple: a user has rights to query the database’s customer table. He usually queries one customer at a time through the application interface, but one night, he stays late, dumps the entire customer table into a text file, and burns it onto a DVD. May 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nokia injects security services into new appliance Finland's Nokia Corp., best known for its mobile phones, also makes security devices, including a new product that bundles a range of multiple security services. May 11, 9:51 a.m. PDT Product Previews Symantec unifies anti-spam and mail security Tightening the integration between brightmail anti-spam and the company’s content security technologies, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 — announced last week and due in May — will proactively protect against both inbound and outbound e-mail threats. The product introduces more extensive content filtering capabilities and zero-day virus prevention, and mitigates threats such as phishing and spyware using Sender Policy Framework and Sender ID. Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0, Symantec April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Kaspersky releases mobile antivirus beta Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of mobile antivirus software for smart phones using the Symbian OS, it announced Thursday. April 14, 4:42 a.m. PDT Stupid user tricks: Eleven IT horror stories No matter how hard we pray, how many chickens we sacrifice, how often we chant naked by moonlight, every network is at one time or other exposed to the ultimate technology risk: users. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco delivers service-stuffed routers Not that long ago, a small-office router handling a single T1 was more or less fully consumed by that task. Throwing more features into the software to support services such as VoIP or firewalling just wasn’t practical, given the cost of CPU and RAM available for the smaller units. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec tackles connectivity in pcAnywhere 12.0 Symantec Corp. Tuesday rolled out the 12th iteration of its pcAnywhere remote-control software, returning to basics with features to ease connectivity. March 14, 9:01 a.m. PST Plug-and-play appliances reshape IT landscape Looking for a can’t-miss enterprise trend? I have just one word for you: appliances. During the past year, our Test Center has been inundated with the things. And not just the old standbys like firewalls, switches, and routers. I’m talking appliances that can handle virtually every IT operation: intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, CRM, anti-spam, e-mail security, Web services integration. We’ve even seen a smattering of appliances for Microsoft Exchange that come bundled with managed services (look for our Test Center review in April). March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST UTM appliances whip blended security threats Taking one part stateful inspection firewall, one part intrusion prevention, and equal parts anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, and content filtering, UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances blend traditionally separate security services into a single device, providing not only comprehensive protection against Internet-based threats but also streamlined access to policies and reporting. March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST RSA - FBI director: Cyber threats 'fluid and far-reaching' Hacker hunters need to develop new techniques to take on the latest generation of sophisticated and better-organized cyber criminals. That's what U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller told attendees of the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California, Wednesday. February 15, 3:45 p.m. PST For banks, security compliance goes only MSSP-deep In the financial industry, third parties often guard the vault. For example, MSSPs (managed security services providers), such as the company I work for, deliver vital resources and expertise to many small to midsize banks. These services include firewalls and intrusion management, secure electronic document delivery, and oversight by trained security professionals. Many banks also rely on MSSPs to comply with regulatory mandates. February 14, 3:00 a.m. PST U.S. DHS completes large-scale cyber exercise The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has completed the first full-scale government-led cyber attack simulation, and officials there called the exercise a "significant milestone." February 10, 1:05 p.m. PST Microsoft buys FutureSoft Web filtering software Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it was buying Web filtering software called DynaComm i:filter from FutureSoft Inc. February 9, 12:48 p.m. PST Microsoft continues to nibble at security We’ll have to wait for any revolutionary product announcements out of Redmond, as now just isn’t the time. But things rarely stand completely still in the rainy Northwest; each week Microsoft tends to announce tweaks to some portion of its product lines, and this week it’s security. February 9, 3:00 a.m. PST State CIOs need more IT security support from DHS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must improve its support for U.S. state and local governments so they can better protect their IT infrastructures from attackers, two organizations of top IT officials said Wednesday. January 25, 2:57 p.m. PST Microsoft readies two-way firewall for Vista Microsoft is readying a new highly configurable firewall for its upcoming Windows Vista operating system that is designed to give administrators much greater control over which applications are allowed to run on the systems they manage. January 25, 1:20 p.m. PST Microsoft tries to slip Windows XP SP3 delay under our noses It’s been a bang-up year already for Microsoft. Hot on the heels of its WMF disaster, Redmond announced that other vulnerabilities existed in Outlook and Exchange. (The company is working on those.) Then another spat erupted about a supposed wireless flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and Windows XP OSes. This one’s been going on for a week now, and I’m a mite ticked, not only because it’s not actually a flaw, but also because the flap about it seems to be masking a real flaw: the one in Microsoft’s software release schedule. The company just announced its delay of the Service Pack 3 release until 2007, as much as a year later than expected. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST D-Link to ship antivirus appliance for home office Is security software gumming up your PC? D-Link believes it has a solution for this problem. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the networking vendor launched its SecureSpot DI-103 Internet security device, which it is billing as an easier way to protect PCs from viruses, spam, and spyware. January 4, 4:30 p.m. PST Threat landscape and lapses justify security paranoia Security remained foremost on the minds of IT leadership in 2005, and with good reason. The year saw a Microsoft research project discover the first so-called zero-day exploit; "identity theft," "phishing," and "spyware" became part of the popular lexicon; and the need grew for companies to treat any computer joining the network as hostile until proved secure. It's no wonder IT people at all levels sound paranoid. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST NTT America offers IPV6 managed firewall service Enterprises grappling with implementing IPV6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) can now at least hand off one job -- the firewalls -- to a service provider. December 8, 4:13 a.m. PST D-Link bolsters line of SMB security products D-Link Corp. Monday fortified its NetDefend security product line for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with new firewall products and a security appliance, a company spokesman said. December 5, 1:42 p.m. PST Check Point and Sygate corral end points At their core, Check Point Integrity and Sygate Enterprise Protection are effectively policy-based firewalls. That’s the cake. The icing is their capability to monitor other applications for compliance with configuration requirements and send errant machines to quarantine until they can be updated with the latest anti-virus definitions, Windows patches, or other necessities. December 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Security concerns dog U.S. online shoppers says survey Despite the increasing size of the online shopping market, one in four U.S. consumers won't shop online during the upcoming holiday season because of concerns over buying goods online, according to the results of a survey published on Tuesday. November 22, 4:33 a.m. PST VoIP firewalls new line of defense “Today, every e-mail is scoured and scanned in the enterprise,” notes Mark Collier, CEO of SecureLogix. “The same will be true of VoIP.” But to get there you’ll need a sophisticated firewall that monitors VoIP traffic at the application level. October 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT F-Secure extends antivirus to Windows Mobile F-Secure announced Monday its Mobile Antivirus software will be available for Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. October 10, 8:43 a.m. PDT Analysts to CISOs: Learn about business Chief information security officers (CISOs) need to learn more about the business side of the companies they work for to effectively communicate the importance of computer security, analysts said Wednesday at the Gartner IT Security Summit 2005 in London. September 14, 9:06 a.m. PDT Symantec, CipherTrust load up security appliances Much like most enterprise-class IT tasks, security can become weaker when a company network is bogged down with too many devices. Management borders on the impossible and IT can never quite get as clear a picture of its own security as it needs. August 29, 5:45 a.m. PDT Big security power in small packages The evolution of the SOBO (Small Office/Branch Office)-oriented, all-in-one box is a continuing process, bent on improving speed and convenience. The latest fish to walk their way out of the SOBO ocean include not only highly sophisticated firewalls, but also advanced LAN-switching software, solid management utilities, and 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity and management. August 22, 5:00 a.m. PDT Hacker Mitnick preaches social engineering awareness SYDNEY -- Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick. July 22, 5:13 a.m. PDT Industry tries to unite again to tackle spyware The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), a group of IT companies and public interest groups, is hoping to succeed where a previous vendor organization failed in tackling the global problem of spyware. The ASC released an agreed-upon draft definition of spyware Tuesday that it hopes will promote public comment and ultimately result in users becoming better educated about the dangers of spyware. July 12, 7:51 a.m. PDT Security vendors respond to heightened concerns Recent security breaches involving universities, credit card processors, and financial institutions are making security a hot topic, and security companies are busy upgrading their product lines -- either by acquiring new product lines or upgrading current products. June 28, 8:38 a.m. PDT CA buys firewall developer Tiny Software Computer Associates International (CA) announced Monday its acquisition of Tiny Software, a Santa Clara, California, developer whose firewall software will be added to CA's eTrust security portfolio. Financial terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. June 27, 10:58 a.m. PDT MCI employee data stolen in laptop theft MCI is evaluating new corporate security technologies following the theft of a notebook computer containing personal information on about 16,500 current and former employees, the company said Monday. May 23, 2:55 p.m. PDT Yahoo, SBC offer free online security suite Yahoo and telecommunication partner SBC Communications rolled out a free suite of security software to their U.S. DSL (digital subscriber line) customers on Tuesday, saying the move comes in response to customer demand for stronger online protection. May 17, 6:21 a.m. PDT Security in the headlines At a conference last year, I made a potentially disastrous mistake. I walked off with someone else’s laptop bag, leaving my own case -- a black, standard-issue, backpack-style bag -- propped against a chair leg. I noticed the substitution about five minutes later, and returned to the scene of the inadvertent crime on a dead run. (My laptop computer may not contain state secrets or customers’ Social Security numbers, but it holds plenty of confidential information, not to mention virtually everything I’m working on at any given time.) May 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft readies PC security, tools bundle Microsoft is readying a new consumer security product that offers virus and spyware protection, a new firewall, and several tune-up tools for Windows PCs, a move that pits the software giant squarely against traditional security software vendors. May 13, 5:13 a.m. PDT Investigators link Cisco hack to other activities A theft of computer source code from Cisco Systems, reported a year ago, has led to a wide-ranging investigation of potential criminal activity involving multiple server break-ins in several countries, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). May 10, 9:44 a.m. PDT Ingate firewall offers SIP-capable security The latest version of Ingate Systems’ Firewall 1600 improves on the Firewall 1400, which we reviewed last year. The result is a SIP-aware VoIP firewall suitable for all but the largest enterprises. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Symantec CEO faces tough sales jobs SAN FRANCISCO -- Symantec's John Thompson calls himself a "simple sales guy," but he will also have to be an extraordinarily effective one in coming months, as he sells stockholders on the notion that his company's $9.4 billion acquisition of Veritas Software makes sense. April 28, 11:07 a.m. PDT Security product outbreak hits InfoSec Europe LONDON -- Antispyware software, patch management tools, and compliance monitors are just some of the new wares being shown off by vendors at the InfoSecurity Europe show in London this week, where an already crowded security market looked a little more crammed. April 27, 9:33 a.m. PDT McAfee firewall updated to secure mobile workers McAfee has updated its firewall software to prevent threats from creeping into enterprise systems through insecure mobile clients, it said Monday. April 18, 8:55 a.m. PDT Bull transfers software firewall technology to Arkoon PARIS - French software, servers and services company Bull has sold its software firewall product, Netwall, to Arkoon, a French security appliance manufacturer. Bull is not turning its back on firewalls altogether, though: it will distribute Arkoon products, and will favor them in its security systems integration work. April 14, 10:15 a.m. PDT Windows Server gets security boost with Service Pack SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft late Wednesday delivered several security enhancements for its server operating system with the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. March 31, 4:42 a.m. PST The consultant's view Steve Manzuik is an independent IT security consultant. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST The CTO's perspective Kevin Bernstein is CTO of platinum capital group. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST How to hire an IT security consultant Outsourcing IT security is all the rage these days. It’s cheaper and more efficient, the prevailing theory goes, to farm out functions not directly related to your organization’s core competencies. If you make nickel-plated widgets, for example, your staff must be expert in manufacturing, nickel-plating, and selling widgets, not in keeping 14-year-olds out of your network. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST NEC developing network security analysis system NEC is developing a network security system that will automatically monitor and analyze the configuration of security tools deployed in a network and suggest changes to fix vulnerabilities and any redundancies that exist between them, the company announced Tuesday. March 23, 5:25 a.m. PST > Networking > Security |
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