RSA Conference 2011: Cloud security challenges dominate

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	RSA Conference 2011: Cloud security challenges dominate RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco Feb. 14-18 will feature a number of sessions devoted to cloud security issues. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave Spend Less on Email Security, Earn $15 GC Next-gen Email Security finds emerging email threats first, with our proprietary Zero Minute Defense TM- no one else has it. Protect your business-critical email and your network. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. In this Issue Windows fix on Patch Tuesday 'breaks' VMware software Thought police? DARPA wants to know how stories influence human mind, actions Low security awareness found across IT IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes Desk-bound government workers find mobility, collaboration options lacking Vendors tap into cloud security concerns with new encryption tools Enterprise adoption of social networking presents security hurdles The leaking vault: Five years of data breaches The changing security battlefield Security startup hopes it holds key for cloud encryption Google boosts log-in protection for its users WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion Frost & Sullivan Internal Segmentation Internal Segmentation has been a growing trend over the last ten years. These solutions control data within the corporate network and actively enforce data access policies for internal staff and systems. This white paper outlines Internal Segmentation, and the benefits of using PacketSentry for Virtual Segmentation. Read now! Windows fix on Patch Tuesday 'breaks' VMware software VMware is telling customers that two Windows 7 security patches have left the VMware View desktop virtualization client unable to access the View Connection Server, which brokers the connection between a user's computer and a virtual desktop. Read More Thought police? DARPA wants to know how stories influence human mind, actions DARPA wants to know about how stories influence human behaviorSince it sounds like a not-so-basic- science fiction script, you won't be surprised  that the scientific masterminds at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are behind it.  Read More Low security awareness found across IT A broad spectrum of IT people, including those close to security functions, appear to have little awareness of key security issues impacting their organizations, a new survey shows. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nastel Technologies Control & Automate Application Performance Management. This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes Researchers in Germany say they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes and they did it without cracking the phone's passcode. Read More Desk-bound government workers find mobility, collaboration options lacking Government workers are stymied by lack of mobile technologies, collaboration tools and mature telecommuting options, Forrester Research reports. Read More Vendors tap into cloud security concerns with new encryption tools Security vendors are rolling out new technologies designed to let companies take advantage of cloud computing environments without exposing sensitive data. Read More WEBCAST: Adobe Deliver Engaging Communications with PDF Portfolios Learn how easy it is to create and send a single PDF Portfolio using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. See how to create a rich, branded PDF Portfolio containing many types of documents, each with a rich preview experience. Learn More Enterprise adoption of social networking presents security hurdles Companies that communicate with customers via Facebook and Twitter must protect sensitive data, SugarCRM official notes at JasperSoft conference Read More The leaking vault: Five years of data breaches In 2007, I was asked to develop a new information security metric for a research class – a metric that would quantify a risk factor that was either difficult to measure, or had not been adequately studied. Read More The changing security battlefield Over the years, I have heard some of the leading thinkers in the intelligence and military fields talk about history, as they often do. They turn and gaze back on the fields in which wars were won and lost, and discuss what caused those victories or defeats. Read More Security startup hopes it holds key for cloud encryption James Williamson, IT coordinator at the New Canadian Democratic Party (NPD), on the ups and downs of storage, data protection and regulatory compliance in the cloud. Read More Google boosts log-in protection for its users Google will offer its hundreds of millions of users the option of adding a second verification step when signing into their accounts, to complement the existing password-only authentication mechanism. Read More
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