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	No one can duck Heartland fallout until it stops Last week's report of JC Penney trying to keep its name out of the Heartland credit-card debacle didn't get anywhere near the attention heaped upon hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez netting himself a 20-year prison sentence in the case, so it's definitely worth a mention here. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Identity and Access Governance – What You Need to Know Live Webcast: Wednesday, May 5th at 1pm ET/10 am PT. Oracle presents a timely event featuring the Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, who will provide an overview of the latest technology for identity management. Get guidance on compliance, security, identity management and other topics and participate in a live Q&A. Register Today! In this Issue Is Cisco spying on users? US one step closer to cyber guards for nation's electric grid Ruling suggests limits on employer's access to personal e-mail Clouded views on privacy Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet Tokenization eases merchant PCI compliance Interesting Data about Data Breaches WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More Is Cisco spying on users? Is Cisco spying on users? A story in U.K.'s The Inquirer states that Cisco has unveiled a bandwidth usage monitoring application designed to provide insight into what type of traffic - such as video -- is using available bandwidth. Read More US one step closer to cyber guards for nation's electric grid The US Department of Energy this week officially opened up the bidding for a National Electric Sector Cyber Security Organization that would protect the nation's electrical grid from cyber attacks.   Read More WHITE PAPER: Arcsight Combating Fraud & Data Theft Discover scalable, minimally intrusive, log-based monitoring solutions optimized to the monitoring challenges unique to financial institutions. Learn More Ruling suggests limits on employer's access to personal e-mail Can employers read an employee's personal e-mail composed and sent via a corporate computer, and does the employer own that e-mail? Especially if it's an e-mail to a lawyer, which raises special questions of client-attorney privilege that invoke confidentiality? Read More Clouded views on privacy Privacy and cloud computing have recently been in the news, with stories coming out of academia (Yale University) and government oversight agencies (Canadian Privacy Commissioner). Both, in my view, got it wrong. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Prepare for Windows 7 in Three Phases Many organizations are skipping Vista and looking forward to Windows 7. This research provides necessary steps to prepare for Windows 7 and ensure a successful migration with adequate operating system (OS) support. Learn More Now Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly While vendors work to address enterprise concerns about cloud computing security, experts warn there's no easy fix. Meanwhile, cloud service outages and criminals operating in the cloud threaten enterprise acceptance of the utility computing model. Read More DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet One year after the Conficker botnet was front-page news around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing a report looking at the worldwide effort to keep it in check. Read More Tokenization eases merchant PCI compliance Today, it's expected that merchants accept electronic payments and that those payments are secure with no data leaks or breaches of any kind. But the reality is many merchants don't truly understand the vulnerabilities that electronic payments present. They may think they are secure when in fact they are at risk. Read More Interesting Data about Data Breaches In a recent ESG Research survey, we asked security professionals at enterprise organizations (i.e. 1,000 employees or more) whether their organization had suffered a data breach within the last year. Here are the results: Yes, several incidents: 11% Yes, one incident: 23% No: 63% Don't know: 3% My analysis: 1. In total 34% of these... Read More
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