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Monday, October 24, 2005

Symantec fills gaps, Juniper preps access control and more

All the week's news and views about Security, 10/24/05
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Network World's Security News Alert

Acquisitions fill gaps in Symantec security line, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9445>
Symantec is still spending hundreds of millions of dollars
annually to develop new products, but the company recently
stepped up spending on acquisitions as well to bolster its
offerings.

Symantec testing database security appliance, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9446>
Engineers within Symantec's R&D organization have built an
appliance that could eventually lead the company into the
database security business.

Net access control on tap from Juniper, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9447>
Juniper Networks this week plans to unveil a policy management
appliance, a key piece of a secure network access scheme
designed to rival those of Cisco and Microsoft.

Gartner event focuses on security, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9448>
With many keeping one eye on Hurricane Wilma churning off the
coast, 6,000 IT executives last week heard Gartner analysts
offer their vision on everything from security trends to
wireless network directions.

Plan for smooth recovery after breach, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9449>
Predefined response programs should be implemented before a
security incident occurs, say IT executives who have dealt with
public breaches and exposures of identity and financial data.

Responding to a security breach, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9450>
CIOs and network administrators offer tips about how to respond
following a network security breach.

Deciphering the world of crypto, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9451>
It's the computational magic for scrambling data to keep it
secret, and in the U.S., the best-known cryptographic algorithms
go by names such as Triple-DES and AES. But in other countries,
such as South Korea, Russia and Japan, it is SEED, GOST and ...

My adventures in anti-spam, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9452>
Five lessons learned when installing anti-spam software

School nixes malware with open source, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9453>
A team of IT staffers at the University of Indianapolis last
week showed off a bundle of open source tools and scripts it
uses to trap and isolate PCs infected by viruses or spyware

App IDS guards databases, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9454>
Application security implements traditional network- and
operating system-level intrusion-detection system concepts at
the database level

Banking regulators urge stronger authentication for online
accounts., 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9455>
Federal regulators last week issued new Internet banking
standards that will require adoption of stronger authentication
methods by the end of next year.

Enterasys beefs up WLAN security, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9456>
Enterasys last week announced wireless LAN access points and a
wireless switch for controlling and securing Wi-Fi network
access.

ICMP packet surge from Exchange server, 10/24/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9457>
Recently, I noticed that there has been a surge in ICMP packets
between some of my Active Directory controllers and Exchange
servers. Virus scanning proved that the servers were clean. Is
there any explanation for this phenomenon? - Alex Ang

Microsoft patch problems continue, 10/21/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9458>
Windows users are continuing to experience problems with
Microsoft's latest round of security patches. This time a
problem with a critical patch relating to Microsoft's DirectShow
streaming media software is leaving some Windows 2000 users
unprotected ...

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. School traps infected PCs in its web
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9459>
2. Cartoon of the Week
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9460>
3. Cisco bets a billion dollars on India
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9320>
4. Cisco finally brings security push to LAN
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9145>
5. WiMAX just around the corner
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9149>

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