| A new kind of firewall, 12/20/07 With its new security technology, Palo Alto Networks gets tapped as a start-up that will matter in ’08. Researcher says Sears downloads spyware, 01/01/08 Sears and Kmart customers who sign up for a new marketing program may be giving up more private information than they'd bargained for, a prominent anti-spyware researcher claims. McAfee, Symantec CEOs talk security, 01/02/08 In early December, InfoWorld Senior Writer Matt Hines had the opportunity to sit down with John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec, and David DeWalt, chief executive of McAfee, to interview the leaders about the strategic direction of their companies and where they see different aspects of the IT security market heading in 2008 and beyond. Malware evolving too fast for antivirus apps, 12/31/07 If you think that the latest security suites afford complete protection against malware attacks, think again. Today's for-profit malware pushers use dedicated test labs and other increasingly professional techniques to improve their chances of infecting your computer. And the techniques they employ to outpace security software makers appear to be working. Personal information record losses reach new heights, 01/02/08 More than 120 million people in the U.S. had personal data exposed in 2007 as identity theft reached record heights. That's according to research from the nonprofit organization the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) which reported 446 separate breaches exposing 128 million records. What really matters in IT today, 12/20/07 Security clearly matters today, and the costs of getting wrong can be staggering. But many companies till don’t get it. Consider, for example, that few companies encrypt data on laptops, even though on average companies lose 4% to 5% of their laptops each year. Top 9 questions you should ask when choosing remote access VPN Here are some questions that you can ask yourself in order to help you choose a remote access VPN protocol or technology ... Encryption technologies for dummies Security expert Tyson Kopczynski insists that PKI has become easy to implement in all its many forms. "PKI isn't technically complex when you look at it from a broad view … when I talk to my clients, I like to relate PKI to municipal services such public water or electricity. Provided you build it correctly and maintain it 'things' can be plugged into it." Microsoft launches Security Research and Defense site Microsoft Security Response Center is a new group inside Microsoft is run by Vinny Gullotto, formerly of Symantec and McAfee. One-fifth of Windows apps go unpatched, 12/31/07 One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. Cisco Subnet January giveaways: Win a copy of 'Firewall Fundamentals' book We've got 15 copies of the Cisco Press book Firewall Fundamentals by Wes Noonan and Ido Dubrawsky up for grabs. Check out Wes Noonan's blog for Cisco Subnet. | 
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