U.S. Internet security plan revamped; Tech debate on credit card data security

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	U.S. Internet security plan revamped The U.S. government is shifting its strategy for defending federal networks against a rising tide of hacking attacks launched by foreign governments and criminals. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton - NWW A Compelling Power Alternative With power and cooling costs taking a big chunk out of IT budgets, power reductions anywhere in the data center are welcome. Read about two key ways to improve end-to-end energy efficiency by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, high-efficiency, multi-node UPSs. Learn More In this Issue Credit card data security: Who's responsible? ShmooCon: Your iPhone's Dirty Little Security Secret An open letter to my public transit company ShmooCon: P2P Snoopers Know What's In Your Wallet Server Psychic? No, just SIEM savvy Einstein 2: U.S. government's 'enlightening' new cybersecurity weapon Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts Simulated cyber-attack to test government response Install software updates and security patches without rebooting Identity wish list includes stronger authentication WHITE PAPER: BeyondTrust Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. In this paper, EMA analysts examine BeyondTrust PowerBroker, a comprehensive solution designed to close these gaps for the enterprise with provable control. Read More Credit card data security: Who's responsible? About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting over 100 million credit cards stolen. Was it Heartland's fault, or should the credit card companies shoulder more of the responsibility? Read More ShmooCon: Your iPhone's Dirty Little Security Secret Just how easy is it for the bad guys to use your iPhone against you? Well, pretty easy. Trevor Hawthorn explains what to do about it. Read More An open letter to my public transit company For the last week I have been barraged by phone calls and e-mails from various technology body shops asking what my lowest and best rate was for a six-month PCI project you are looking to staff. I've also received e-mails from a bunch of folks trying to get me to work on a project for you. I have heard various rates of $55 to $70 per hour for this PCI project. Note that these rates are considerably lower than the market rates for qualified PCI professionals, especially in the tri-state area. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. ShmooCon: P2P Snoopers Know What's In Your Wallet People send their most sensitive personal information out over P2P networks, and the bad guys are watching. Read More Server Psychic? No, just SIEM savvy Ascent Media Group has deployed an enterprise SIEM system that provides deep insight to what's happening on its network that spans 60 semi-independent companies and 40 locations around the world. A single console in California provides alerts on problems that are happening half a world away. Read More Einstein 2: U.S. government's 'enlightening' new cybersecurity weapon The Department of Homeland Security is detecting new patterns of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries -- some targeted at particular agencies and others aimed at the entire U.S. government -- due to to special-purpose intrusion-detection systems that will be widely deployed in federal networks during 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts One day after its launch, privacy concerns have been raised about Google's new Gmail-based social-networking tool, Buzz. Read More Simulated cyber-attack to test government response Security industry analysts and lawmakers will get an unprecedented chance next week to evaluate how the government might respond to a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure targets. Read More Install software updates and security patches without rebooting For server administrators, installing software updates and security patches is a critical part of the job. But it's also expensive and disruptive when a server must be rebooted to activate the update. A team of MIT engineers has developed technology that allows rebootless updates, and it's now available through a subscription service. Read More Identity wish list includes stronger authentication I hope you had the opportunity to join me for the virtual identity conference last week. I hosted two great panels on Tuesday, and I'd like to talk about some of the issues they raised. Read More
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