How safe are your data and systems? Cyberthreats are growing more complex and insidious by the day, with multi-pronged attacks exploiting any weakness to burrow into your network and release malicious payloads. The fallout from these attacks is also growing more frightening: Lost data, lost revenue, downtime, reputation damage, and regulatory violations can bring painful costs. Business workers, on the other hand, need unrestricted access to relevant information, and they need to collaborate smoothly with colleagues and partners. It's your job to ensure tight security without compromising productivity. You can get the latest advice and news from the business security world right here. You'll also learn how Microsoft Forefront delivers comprehensive protection and helps promote compliance for businesses of every size, and how it integrates seamlessly with infrastructure products like Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Unified Communications.

Posted 7 hours ago.
Thin computing offers a secure and manageable computing solution that fits varying needs of organizations—from thin clients offering a powerful, rich PC experience to thin clients offering an affordable and reliable productivity tool. By transitioning from fat PC environments to thin computing environments, this Knowledge Center aricle explains how your organization can enjoy increased security, manageability and overall cost savings from the thin computing environment.

Posted about a day ago.
Companies that store credit card data expose themselves to a great deal of risk, whether they want to or not. If a risk assessment process is implemented, then the risks and exposures are identified. A plan can be put into place to help reduce or minimize a data breach attempt. To remove the risks associated with storing credit card data, companies are turning to trusted third parties who have demonstrated data security as a core competency.

Posted about a day ago.
In what amounted to a virtual waving of the white flag, federal officials made it clear to attendees of the RSA conference in San Francisco that the war against cyber criminals is a hopeless one without better coordination of public and private resources.

Posted 4 days ago.
In a disturbing twist, Google attack hackers broke into computers of employees with privileged access to source code management software. Analysis of the January attacks on Google and other companies revealed security holes in the widely used source code management systems. The implications are immense given that these systems manage extremely high value intellectual property.

Posted 4 days ago.
Microsoft is planning to release two security updates next week for Patch Tuesday to address eight vulnerabilities. The company also reminded users it is terminating support in the coming months for certain versions of Windows.

Posted 4 days ago.
An industry survey finds a majority of security professionals polled saw increased salaries in 2009, while those who plan to hire in 2010 expect to hire three or more workers.

Posted 5 days ago.
Data protection and business continuity solution provider Axcient announced ServerAlive, which lets IT administrators launch a virtual instance of a failed server. With ServerAlive, Axcient unifies backup, business continuity and disaster recovery on a single platform.

Posted 5 days ago.
Symantec's latest version of Brightmail Gateway security platform includes features like content encryption as well as increased scalability.

Posted 5 days ago.
Counterfeiting radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags is possible today by cloning an exact copy of the chip inside the tag. To thwart counterfeiters, Verayo has invented "electronic fingerprints" that work like an electronic passport to make RFID tags unclonable.

Posted 6 days ago.
A new security architecture from Cisco blends the company's AnyConnect Secure Mobility and TrustSec solutions. Cisco claims the new architecture will enable users to access information from any device at any location while still maintaining a high level of security and ease of use.

Posted 6 days ago.
Security researchers at Damballa analyzed the command and control activity of the botnet associated with the attack on Google. The Damballa report supplies information about the attack's tactics and reach.

Posted 6 days ago.
At the RSA Conference, White House Cyber-Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced that an unclassified version of the Obama administration's “Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative” is now available online. In his remarks, Schmidt declared that transparency and partnership must go "hand-in-hand."

Posted 7 days ago.
In an advisory issued March 1, Microsoft served up a handful of workarounds to plug a security hole caused by an unpatched zero-day. According to Microsoft, the issue affects Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and could be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems.

Posted 7 days ago.
Iron Mountain's Digital Record Center for Medical Images is designed to back up and archive digital medical information, which often includes large, bulky X-ray files. Due to the sensitivity and importance of medical data, another level of redundancy is built into the package.

Posted on 03-01-10
Phishers targeting Twitter had a long week. A series of the scams have hit the microblogging service, snaring among others British energy minister Ed Miliband and House of Commons leader Harriet Harman, whose account was used to send a bogus message to fellow U.K. politician Alan Duncan.

Posted on 03-01-10
Because of the advent of faster, more complete security applications and databases, enterprises now have multiple ways to check identities, permissions and credentials in real time. However, security threats also continue to increase in number and sophistication.

Posted on 02-26-10
While it may be impossible to completely prevent attackers from hijacking your accounts and attempting to aim threats at your friends and colleagues, managing your social networking accounts on a more active basis and enlisting all of the security and privacy tools that the sites offer can dramatically reduce the risk of such incidents.

Posted on 02-26-10
Social networking behemoth Facebook reported a glitch in a software update that caused users' private messages to land in the wrong in-boxes, stoking new fears over the site's security.

Posted on 02-25-10
Passlogix offers cost-conscious businesses the open architecture v-GO Universal Authentication Manager (v-GO UAM), an authentication solution that enables Microsoft Windows to accept any identification device for logging on.