Another look at Forrester's security recommendations

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	Another look at Forrester's security recommendations After writing somewhat disparagingly about Forrester's recent paper "Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy" ("Watch out for identity management obfuscators"), I heard from their PR chief, Phil LeClare. And he did include a copy of the report in his note to me. So I read it. 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 50,000 stolen iTunes accounts for sale Mac App Store Pirate Raid Raises Security Concerns Self-Encrypted Drives Set to Become Standard Fare US revamps science, technology standard-setting efforts Cell Phone Users Are Gullible, Report Says Recalculating the telephony security equation WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Maximizing IT Insight for Financial Services This white paper outlines these challenges and provides a clear path to providing the accelerated insight needed to perform in today's complicated business environment to reduce risk, stop fraud and increase profits. Read now! 50,000 stolen iTunes accounts for sale Legitimate iTunes accounts have been hacked and access sold on to Chinese surfers, according to a local report. Read More Mac App Store Pirate Raid Raises Security Concerns Less than 24 hours after Apple launched the Mac App Store, hackers have found a simple way to pirate applications from the store. Applications from the Mac App Store that skimp on DRM features can be easily validated as genuine with a few clicks when they are downloaded from third-party websites. But security firm Sophos says the exploit not only leads to piracy, but also to malware. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent A Strategic View of Application Converged Networks Access real-world lessons learned to help you successfully deploy a converged network. See how your technology choices can reduce complexity and costs while helping guarantee your convergence project's success. Read now Self-Encrypted Drives Set to Become Standard Fare We've seen this coming over time: Based on the Trusted Computing Group's standard, hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), are offering self-encryption built-in. The key difference with these next-generation encrypted drives is that these units have the encryption integrated into a single chip on drive in the drive. Read More US revamps science, technology standard-setting efforts NIST to bolster cloud computing, green building, emergency communications development.The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been given new marching orders: expand work with the private sector to develop standards for a range of key technologies such as cloud computing, emergency communications and tracking, green manufacturing and high performance green building construction. NIST could also see its core science and technology budget double by 2017. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC A "hindsight is 20/20" look at cloud computing Learn why BMC Software's chief information officer foresees a future in which organizations realize how secure the public cloud is, underutilization of hardware is a thing of the past and daily business operations are more productive. Read More Cell Phone Users Are Gullible, Report Says Internet security company Trusteer has managed to get access to the log files of Web servers that hosted phishing Websites. Their conclusion? Cell phone users are idiots compared to their desktop computing counterparts. Well, they don't say it as bluntly as that, but their data is damning. Read More Recalculating the telephony security equation Among the threats that keep IT security managers up at night, attacks against phone systems have often ranked near the bottom. The last time we asked IT leaders about their telephony security plans, just 2% had experienced a security incident, and in almost all of these cases, the attack was internal misuse of phone systems for personal long-distance calls. Few had developed any sort of comprehensive security or risk analysis plan covering their voice systems. Read More
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