Is organized crime moving into cybersphere?; Analyzing your network's behavior

Security News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Symantec Security Information Management Solutions: Beyond Threat Management Learn the latest Security Information Management best practices from IT research firm Forrester Research and Symantec. Watch now and also discover how solutions are evolving, as well as how to get more out of SIM - much more than incident response and threat management. Network World's Security News Alert, 05/11/07 Cybercrime update: Is organized crime moving into cybersphere?, 05/09/07: As if FBI special agent Tim O’Brien and his cybercrime fighting comrades don’t already have their hands full with bot herders, virus writers and other loosely-aligned crooks, now people are wondering when more traditional organized crime will grab a piece of the action. Click here for more. Analyzing your network's behavior, 05/09/07: Senior Editor Denise Dubie talks with Dimitri Vlachos, a product manager at Mazu Networks, how network behavior analysis technology can not only help IT managers secure their networks internally, but it can also go a long way toward operational management improvements. (11:47) Listen now. Reflex Security teams up with Insightix for better IPS, 05/10/07 : Reflex Security has upgraded its intrusion-prevention technology with real-time network status information to give enterprise IT staff better insight into devices involved in possible attacks. Click here for more. From servers to storage: Virtualization saves It's touted as one of the fastest and easiest ways to better manage and control your infrastructure. Download this guide today and see how network IT execs are making virtualization pay off in the real world; discover the 8 virtualization gotchas you need to know; and much more. Click here to download. Tool may foil Office 2003 hacks with '07 security, 05/09/07: Microsoft will release an enterprise tool that offers some of the security features in the new Office 2007 suite to protect users still running the older Office 2003 applications, a company researcher said Tuesday. Click here for more. BitLocker secures mobile devices:  John Obeto on Microsoft blogger writes: "New to Windows, albeit in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista only, is BitLocker drive encryption technology ... a boon to IT admins in mobility situations." Click here for more.

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