Courion bolsters Access Assurance Suite

	Operation Death Match reaps another identity thief | Is ubiquitous encryption technology on the horizon?
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	Courion bolsters Access Assurance Suite The biggest fish in the small (well, medium-sized) pond of pure play IDM vendors is still Courion, and it extended its reputation for having the most complete IAM solution with the last week's announcement of Compliance Manager for File Shares, a new capability for their Access Assurance Suite designed to protect sensitive information in unstructured data formats found in file shares, such as Microsoft Office files, .pdf files, and audio, video and CAD files. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Quest Software Choosing the Right Active Directory Bridge Solution What do you need to know when evaluating AD bridge solutions? In this Quest Software white paper, discover the questions to ask when choosing the best solution for your company. Don't waste time and money with systems that don't play well together! Read More In this Issue Operation Death Match reaps another identity thief Is ubiquitous encryption technology on the horizon? Safety a big target in letting unmanned aircraft in national airspace DARPA issues call for computer science devotees Playboy's new site is safe for work? … Aw, Hef's such a kidder After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords E.U. plans to limit its use of private personal data Adobe to beef up PDF security with Reader sandboxing Microsoft 'working' on patch for critical Windows vulnerability IBM device secures online banking Network security for the masses Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints REPORT: Radiant Logic, Inc Download Latest Gartner Report on IdM Today's centralized identity infrastructure can't keep up with tomorrow's increasingly federated demands, from user-centric identity, to Identity-as-a-Service, and the cloud. In "The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management," Gartner outlines a vision for tomorrow's identity landscape--one with virtualization at its core. Download the report--free! Operation Death Match reaps another identity thief Federal authorities don't take kindly to people stealing the identities of dead folks. A British citizen whose real name is John Skelton this week became one of the 150 people that have been arrested and charged with federal passport fraud and related offenses under a program known as Operation Death Match. Read More Is ubiquitous encryption technology on the horizon? Will ubiquitous encryption of important network traffic ever happen? A group of researchers presenting at next month's Usenix Security Symposium will talk about a technology they say could make end-to-end encryption of TCP traffic the default, not the exception. Read More Safety a big target in letting unmanned aircraft in national airspace There is a push by a variety of proponents to give unmanned aircraft more free reign in the nation's airspace but safety is a Read More DARPA issues call for computer science devotees The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for a few good computer science researchers who might be interested in developing systems for the US military. The move is seen, in part anyway, as a way for the agency to win more heart and minds of the advanced science community. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs The Wild, Wild Web: How to Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now Playboy's new site is safe for work? … Aw, Hef's such a kidder Ever since Playboy announced that it intended to launch a new Web site called The Smoking Jacket that we were promised would be safe for everyone to read at work, I've been anxious to see whether the legendary Hugh Hefner could -- or would -- actually produce such a thing. The site launched officially today, soooo .... Is it really safe for work? Read More After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens' industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone. Read More E.U. plans to limit its use of private personal data The European Union is to impose stricter rules on its own use of private citizens' data for all future anti-terrorism measures. Read More Adobe to beef up PDF security with Reader sandboxing Adobe today announced that it will harden the next version of its popular Reader PDF viewer, a frequent target of attacks, by adding "sandboxing" technology to the software. Read More E-GUIDE: Force10 Networks Inc. Examining Nuances of the Cloud Choosing the best cloud strategy means understanding the promises and pitfalls of each approach. This Network World eGuide provides expert articles on the nuances between different cloud strategies, best practices on building a hybrid cloud and making sure you have an exit strategy in case the cloud does not work out. Read More Now Microsoft 'working' on patch for critical Windows vulnerability Microsoft is now working on a patch to prevent exploits of a newly discovered vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows. Read More IBM device secures online banking IBM this week rolled out a security device it says will protect online banking and keep cyber-criminals from being able to make fraudulent funds transfer even from a compromised PC. Read More Network security for the masses Information security is an exalted field. Exalted both in the sense of "noble" and in the sense of "inflated". We practice security as a dark art, a complex discipline of insiders with obscure acronyms. Even more than other areas of IT, security professionals are a "special" breed, as one can clearly see by the many certifications following our names, almost like titles of nobility. Yes, security is complex and esoteric. No, it should not be the practice of the few, but the practice of the many. Read More Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime than current intrusion-detection schemes, says one Black Hat 2010 speaker. Read More
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