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	Time for spring -- and conference season Wow, it's March all ready. Where has the year gone? Time to start gearing up for the conference season -- which already started with the recent RSA Security conference in San Francisco and last week's Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit in London. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Develop Effective user Management With IBM, organizations can develop comprehensive solutions to help gain visibility into business continuity risks, achieve control over utilization of sensitive business assets and automate a variety of processes for managing access to critical assets and data. Read more In this Issue FBI details most difficult Internet scams Cyber ShockWave Illustrates Why the Federal Government Must Lead the Cybersecurity Charge Seven Firefox Plug-ins That Improve Online Privacy FBI: Internet fraud losses more than doubled in 2009 Cloud Security is Top of Mind Security execs express surprise over CISO's firing following RSA talk Biometrics: What, Where and Why Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms WHITE PAPER: Ultrium Cost Effective Data Security with Tape With a growing number of laws and regulations, financial penalties, and public notification costs, a security breach can be costly for corporations. Data managers are called upon to develop effective security for sensitive data and are turning to tape encryption. Read Now FBI details most difficult Internet scams According to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the "popular scam trends for 2009" included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software. Read More Cyber ShockWave Illustrates Why the Federal Government Must Lead the Cybersecurity Charge Last week I wrote a blog suggesting that IT professionals and legislators read the new book, "Fatal System Error," by Joseph Menn. This recommendation was based on my believe that most people don't understand the scope of sophistication of current cyber threats and we need more government and private sector action and cooperation immediately. Read More E-BOOK: Sybase 5 Key Mobile Management Must-Dos Discover the five steps you can take to realize comprehensive management of your mobile environment. This IDG Playbook will guide your strategy for managing and securing your booming mobile environment, regardless of the variety of hardware and operating systems. Read More Now Seven Firefox Plug-ins That Improve Online Privacy Worried about preserving your privacy in an online world where privacy is disappearing? Here are seven Firefox add-ons that will help. Read More FBI: Internet fraud losses more than doubled in 2009 The Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual wide-ranging look at Internet crime found that online crime is indeed paying off - for the criminals as it cost users $559.7 million, up from $265 million in 2008. Read More WHITE PAPER: Force10 Data Center Optimization Strategies Enhance the efficiency of your data center by improving power and cooling. Learn the strategies you can use to refine power efficiency, thereby boosting your TCO and lowering your budget. Read More Cloud Security is Top of Mind At the annual security RSA Conference, the focus was all things cloud. Forget for a moment that definitions of "cloud" are still in flux, or that aside from SaaS, the adoption rate is still in the margin-of-error range (just 2% of benchmark participants told Nemertes in 2009 they were currently deploying cloud services). Indicators point to strong enterprise interest---and this time, the security industry... Read More Security execs express surprise over CISO's firing following RSA talk Several security executives today expressed surprise over the firing of Pennsylvanias chief information security officer, apparently for publicly speaking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system without getting the required approvals first. Read More Biometrics: What, Where and Why Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and overcome failure-to-enroll problems. Read More Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms Apple has patched 16 bugs in the Safari browser, 12 of them critical, just two weeks before it faces off against rival technologies at the 2010 Pwn2Own hacking challenge. Read More
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