Is Open Source Safe?

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	Is Open Source Safe? The IT Department where Daniel Toth works won't let him use open source software because they believe it's a security risk. Is it? Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Log Mangement in a Cyberworld Cybercrime, increasingly operated under well-muscled organized crime syndicates, has become a huge threat. With so many potential cyber villains poking around the gates, enterprises must have strong protections and pristine visibility into what's happening on the network. Read Now In this Issue Security Manager's Journal: Without patch management, you are nothing. Trend Micro makes push into desktop virtualization security Protect Your PCs Against Adobe Security Flaws One third of search engine results are poisoned Quick tips to foil Mac break-in attempts McAfee vs. Symantec Why Google's Windows Ban Doesn't Make Sense Missouri AG looks into Google Wi-Fi mess Update: Attackers exploit critical bug in Adobe's Flash, Reader Bugs & Fixes: Router's network password can slow Wi-Fi How to Set Up a Virtual Private Network E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. Security Manager's Journal: Without patch management, you are nothing. Does it all come down topatch management? As a security manager, I pursue many initiatives, striving to protect the company on many fronts. But patch management is a key metric of our risk exposure, since there is a direct correlation between security incidents and patch compliance. So, in a way, it does all come down to something as basic as patch management, because if we fail there, we can't be secure. Read More Trend Micro makes push into desktop virtualization security Trend Micro Monday is announcing an updated endpoint security product designed to go beyond protecting Windows environments to safeguard virtualized desktops based on Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View. Read More Protect Your PCs Against Adobe Security Flaws Adobe has been very successful at establishing its products as cross-platform, operating system agnostic tools for delivering content. Unfortunately, those same attributes are also attractive reasons to attack Adobe products, and Adobe has been a little less successful at ensuring those products are secure. IT administrators need to exercise increased diligence to protect against Adobe software flaws and malicious PDF files. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire 5 Challenges: Continuous PCI DSS Compliance With adoption of the PCI DSS expanding throughout the United States and into Europe, organizations subject to PCI compliance face several key challenges. Learn more about these challenges, how to address them, and how Tripwire IT security and compliance automation solutions can help. Read Now. One third of search engine results are poisoned A third of search engine results are poisoned links, says Symantec . Read More Quick tips to foil Mac break-in attempts As Mac users, many of us don't spend as much time worrying about security as our counterparts on other platforms. While it's true that Macs don't encounter as much malware as Windows, though, it hardly means we're immune from security risks, as I discovered myself this week. Read More McAfee vs. Symantec For decades, Symantec and McAfee have fostered a tit-for-tat rivalry that makes the old Hatfields and McCoys feud look tame by comparison. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Intelligent Storage Management at the File Level Many storage management tools for file storage are "dumb." They treat all files the same regardless of business relevance and they lack the ability to automate user-storage management tasks or set policies based on business requirements. Learn how to augment your existing storage management system with intelligence at the file level. Read Now Why Google's Windows Ban Doesn't Make Sense Google's move to ban Windows for internal use was ostensibly for security reasons. But that looks more like a convenient excuse than anything else, because there are plenty of reasons the ban doesn't make sense. Read More Missouri AG looks into Google Wi-Fi mess Missouri's Attorney wants Google to answer questions about how the company's widespread wireless network sniffing activities may have affected local residents. Read More Update: Attackers exploit critical bug in Adobe's Flash, Reader Adobe late Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the company's most widely-used software: Flash Player and Adobe Reader. Read More Bugs & Fixes: Router's network password can slow Wi-Fi Is the speed of your 802.11n Wi-Fi network unexpectedly slow--more akin to the rate you used to get with a 802.11g network? There are numerous possible causes. Most of them boil down to poor signal strength--due to causes such as your Internet device being too distant from the Wi-Fi router or interference from a cordless phone. Read More How to Set Up a Virtual Private Network If you work on the go fairly often, you've probably hopped on a public wireless network at least once or twice. You should have also figured out how to keep your data safe when you're on such a network, by taking precautions such as using your company's virtual private network--if available--or an encrypted Web tunnel such as Hotspot Shield. Read More
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