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	Are your IT folks snooping your protected data? In a survey of IT professionals published Wedneday, 67% of respondents admitted having accessed information that was not relevant to their role, and 41% admitted abusing administrative passwords to snoop on sensitive or confidential information. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Take a Smarter Approach to Archiving Examine strategies and tactics for unifying data and content. View an e-discovery calculator and go inside a 3-year ROI model. Learn More In this Issue Updated BlackBerry security features aimed at boosting corporate use Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks IBM buys BigFix for data centre patching Websense promotes DLP freebie Inside the Celtics' infosecurity playbook IT Protects the Network, But Who Protects the Network from IT? 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Cloud service providers often cultivate an aura of secrecy about data centers and operations, claiming this stance improves their security even if it leaves everyone else in the dark. Read More IBM buys BigFix for data centre patching IBM is to further bulk out its profitable software division with the acquisition of privately-held patching company, BigFix. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! Websense promotes DLP freebie Websense Thursday is announcing that it's making its data-loss prevention (DLP) suite free for 30 days under a "DLP for Download" program. Read More Inside the Celtics' infosecurity playbook The Boston Celtics' VP of technology explains how using the MacBook Pro and cloud-based services helped improve the franchise's IT security. Read More IT Protects the Network, But Who Protects the Network from IT? Businesses have gigabytes upon gigabytes of sensitive and confidential data archived on servers, storage arrays, or backup media. Those companies rely on the expertise of information security professionals to protect that data and prevent unauthorized access. The question, though, is "who is protecting the sensitive and confidential data from the information security professionals?" Read More E-BOOK: IBM The IBM Guide to Smart Archive The IBM Guide to Smart Archive is an interactive collateral and video tool that helps explain in a unique way IBM's Smart Archive strategy. Learn More RSA weighs in on data loss prevention According to U.S. government estimates, incidents of enterprise data loss cost businesses more than $100 billion in a single year. As threats to enterprise data grow more sophisticated, it's imperative for businesses to implement a comprehensive data security strategy. But where to start? RSA, The Security Division of EMC, provides us with these best practices for preventing enterprise data loss. Read More RSA's best practices for preventing enterprise data loss According to U.S. government estimates, incidents of enterprise data loss cost businesses more than $100 billion in a single year. As threats to enterprise data grow more sophisticated, it's imperative for businesses to implement a comprehensive data security strategy. But where to start? RSA, The Security Division of EMC, provides us with these best practices for preventing enterprise data loss. Read More Three more Microsoft zero-day bugs pop up The number of zero-day vulnerabilities in widely-used Microsoft software products continues to grow, according to security experts. Read More Honeypots for hacker detection Most corporate networks lack serious oversight, that is, no one is really watching. Watching the network and computer systems is expensive, overwhelming and fraught with false positives. No wonder then that insider attacks go undetected for months, malware proliferates stealthily and hackers can spend their time gradually infiltrating deeper and deeper, undetected. Read More DefCon contest to spotlight social engineering How strong is your schmooze? That is the question participants in an upcoming contest at this year's Defcon event will attempt to answer at the end of July. The Social Engineering CTF (capture-the-flag contest) is sponsored by the group that runs the website social-engineer.org and will ask contestants to gather information and then plan a realistic and appropriate attack vector, according to Chris Hadnagy, one of the site's founders. Read More
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