10 steps to easier access management; How I got thrown out of an NSA party

	How I got thrown out of an NSA party | VoIP and compliance regulations make strange and difficult bedfellows
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	10 steps to easier access management NEW YORK -- A CISO who spent two years organizing identity and access management for the 15,000 users on his network boiled the whole experience down into a 10-step process he presented at the Security Standard Conference this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant, Gartner Group Read now! In this Issue How I got thrown out of an NSA party VoIP and compliance regulations make strange and difficult bedfellows Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications Is your cell phone a router? Can privacy be saved? Maybe Do security regulations hinder business? How physical, IT security sides can work together Vulnerability management basics: Tools of the trade Good security tools now support Verizon Android phones Forrester: Trust no one when it comes to IT security Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil' PwC lauds Trusted Platform Module for strong authentication Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances Mozilla halts Firefox security updates Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Online Backup and Recovery IT professionals are increasingly looking to online backup and recovery services for server data protection. This White Paper helps companies recognize the major categories of service providers offering online backup and recovery specifically for servers. Read Now How I got thrown out of an NSA party For the National Security Agency, America's high-tech spy agency and guru for military information security, inviting the tech media to attend its first-ever NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition was no easy decision. Read More VoIP and compliance regulations make strange and difficult bedfellows As attacks against VoIP persist businesses not only have to defend themselves, they have to do it under the gun of regulators who want proof that security was addressed in accordance with their ever-changing rules. Read More Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? Database security vendor AppSec says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins Read More Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications Interest in IT security certifications is booming, as more U.S. companies tighten up the protection surrounding their critical network infrastructure and as a growing number of employees view security expertise as recession proof. Read More Is your cell phone a router? While the current generation of "smartphones" is emerging with amazing capabilities, many of these capabilities can also lead to serious security implications. Let's take as an example of this capability the emergence of the feature available on phones like the Droid X to use your cell phone as a router. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zoho Corporation A Service Desk That Transformed Cetero Research Alex Walker, Director of IT at Cetero Research had a problem, and it was right out his office window. Alex could see his technicians dashing between buildings, clutching a PC like a football, rushing to the next break-fix. "I was being controlled by the end user," he says. Read More Can privacy be saved? Maybe At the CSO Security Standard Tuesday, General Electric's senior counselor explained what GE is doing to protect customer, employee and supplier privacy. Read More Do security regulations hinder business? Government needs to better understand the realities of running profitable businesses -- and quickly -- as it imposes security regulations that can affect the profitability of corporations battling in a competitive environment. Read More How physical, IT security sides can work together A physical security specialist teams up with an IT security specialist to outline a more potent defense. From the CSO Security Standard event in New York. Read More Vulnerability management basics: Tools of the trade In part two of our series on vulnerability management basics, we look at the variety of scanners and other tools crucial to the task. Read More Good security tools now support Verizon Android phones Verizon today announced that Android smartphones using its network can now run Good Technology's security and management software. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Avocent MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer Need real-time insight so you can simply plan and manage your data center? Learn how Data Domain used Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer software to find underutilized racks and saved $400K in space, power and cooling in one quarter. Read Now. Forrester: Trust no one when it comes to IT security Forrester Research is releasing a report titled "Introducing the Zero-Trust Model of Information Network" in conjunction with its Security Forum event in Boston this week. Read More Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil' Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the information security director of a major online trading firm told Security Standard attendees. Read More PwC lauds Trusted Platform Module for strong authentication ORLAND - Auditing and business-services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today said it's built its next-generation authentication system by swapping out employees' older software-based private-key certificates for hardware-based storage of new certificates using the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Read More Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches? Database security vendor AppSec says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins Read More NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances The National Security Agency wants to use commercially-built security products and the latest virtualization software. But the slow pace of getting products certified through NSA channels and the lightening fast pace of change in the IT industry is causing national-security heartburn. Read More Mozilla halts Firefox security updates Mozilla has temporarily stopped providing security updates to its Firefox browser as engineers investigate a bug that has caused some computers to crash. Read More Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm Microsoft Tuesday patched a critical Windows XP vulnerability that aided attacks based on the Stuxnet worm by letting attackers gain remote access through the operating system's print spooler service. Read More
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