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	Book reveals truths about the cloud I've known Archie Reed for many years, since he was vice president of strategy for TruLogica back in the early years of this century. He went with that company when it was acquired by Compaq, then stayed when that organization was bought by HP, filling various roles involving identity and security until ending up, today, as HP's chief technologist for cloud security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager A Forrester Study commissioned by Oracle. This paper details return-on-investment (ROI) calculations based on real customers' data, and guides you in computing cost savings with user provisioning. Use the model suggested in this report to design your implementation and measure results. Read now In this Issue Best practices for SIEM deployments Bugs & Fixes: Beware OS X 10.6.5 and PGP WDE protected drive Obama may toughen Internet privacy rules, report says Google, Facebook duke it out over user data Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Virus infecting phones in China costs you $300,000 a day It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Buyers Guide to Data Loss Prevention Solutions This guide provides a list of recommended features and capabilities for buyers to consider when purchasing a DLP solution. Buyers can also use this guide to develop requests for proposals, as well as to help differentiate one vendor's products from another during demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Read More Best practices for SIEM deployments The 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report published by the Verizon Business RISK Team has a shocking statistic about the effectiveness of log analysis in helping organizations discover that they've been a victim of a security breach. According to Verizon, logs are available in nearly 90% of the breaches they've investigated, but effective in discovering the breach less than 5% of the time. This article outlines some best practices for deploying a security information event management (SIEM) solution to put those logs to better use. Read More Bugs & Fixes: Beware OS X 10.6.5 and PGP WDE protected drive If you are using PGP Whole Disk Encryption, beware of updating to Mac OS X 10.6.5. PGP Technical Support has issued the following alert: Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Web Organizations around the world are racing to take advantage of social networking and media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Along with these new resources, comes new risk as user-generated content circumvents traditional security technologies such as antivirus and URL filtering. View Now Obama may toughen Internet privacy rules, report says The Obama administration is reportedly considering plans to step up policing of Internet privacy issues and to establish a new position to direct the effort. Read More Google, Facebook duke it out over user data Internet giants Google and Facebook have been having a war of words this week over user data portability. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Securing Data Stored On Tape With Encryption With companies storing data for longer periods of time to meet compliance regulations and business best practices, the inherent risk of a data breach is growing significantly. Read Now Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Apple this week patched a record 134 Mac OS X vulnerabilities, easily topping the previous record of fixing 90 flaws in March. Read More Virus infecting phones in China costs you $300,000 a day A virus masquerading as an antivirus application (how's that for irony?) has been infecting countless mobile phones in China. The virus lets hackers take control of the phone who then spam the phone's entire address with links that allow the virus to spread to even more phones. Read More It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Myopic industry-driven title has become obsoleteBack around 2005, DLP was the buzz term Du Jour within the information security industry. DLP was designed to find sensitive data and make sure that this data wasn't accidentally or maliciously mis-used. The most common DLP implementation was as a network gateway for filtering Layer 7 content. When a DLP devices spotted credit card numbers in an email, it simply blocked this transmission thus preventing... Read More
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