Increasing Internet security for average users

Security starts with ordinary users Security Strategies Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell Enhance Performance, Security, Stability Upgrading to the Windows Server 2008 OS can offer myriad advantages, including enhanced performance, security, and stability. By following best practices for in-place upgrades and taking advantage of tools such as the Dell Windows Server 2008 Readiness Advisor, administrators can help ensure a smooth migration on their Dell PowerEdge(TM) servers. Spotlight Story Increasing Internet security for average users By M. E. Kabay Boyle: One day, while working hard as the chief information security officer at an insurance company, I realized that much of our organization's network security was in the hands of ordinary users of our computers. No matter how much my team did to safeguard our customers' confidential data, no matter how much money we spent on our mission, all it would take was one average Internet-using employee to cause major damage, either deliberately or accidentally. Read full story M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, specializes in security and operations management consulting services. CV online. Related News: New Institute for Cyber Security advances research, development of security technologies In November, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) launched its new Internet security incubator at the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS). The incubator was developed to commercialize promising technologies ... Pay as you go for security solutions Antivirus and Internet security software vendor ESET will now allow end-users to pay as they go with its first foray into software as a service. U.S. plots major upgrade to Internet router security The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding ... Six worst Internet routing attacks Here's our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental misconfigurations. But all of ... 4 open source BGP tools The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding the following industry and academic groups involved in developing open source tools aimed at securing the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol-based routing. In the Trenches, as the Threats Evolve Recent security incidents at my company have gotten me thinking about the state of information warfare. Electronic break-ins are progressing in a direction that makes me fear that the nature of the threats is changing. 'Managing' passwords doesn't make them less unsafe In his newsletter last week my colleague M.E. Kabay points us to a draft release of a new paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) called the "Guide to enterprise password management." Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi? When the latest version of Bluetooth was announced last week, two questions popped to mind. First, what does Bluetooth 3.0 - which combines the Bluetooth wireless communications protocol with 802.11g Wi-Fi transport ... May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. 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