Partitioning is important component of identity services

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	Partitioning is important component of identity services We've been talking about what an identity service needs in order to be considered both pervasive and ubiquitous. That is, to be "available anywhere and every time we want to use it" as well as "available everywhere and any time we want to use it." Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager A Forrester Study commissioned by Oracle. This paper details return-on-investment (ROI) calculations based on real customers' data, and guides you in computing cost savings with user provisioning. Use the model suggested in this report to design your implementation and measure results. Read now In this Issue Researchers tout unique automated firewall fault fixer Father of Firesheep fires away after wild week in WiFi security Sony BMG rootkit scandal: 5 years later In-Depth Look at Boonana Malware Sophos delights Mac users with free antivirus Antivirus software didn't help in zero-day malware attack on power plant Security laws, regulations and guidelines directory Google Pays Cash to Hackers for Web App Security Flaws Another Cisco cheater nabbed The New CISO: How the role has changed in 5 years Security in the electric power industry: Riptech Report of 2001 WEBCAST: Aruba Networks Managing a Global Wireless LAN-Best Practices from Intel IT In this webinar, Intel IT explains how they overcame challenges associated with managing their global WLAN across 150 Intel sites in 63 countries, supporting more than 45k simultaneous users every day. Intel highlights best practices for managing a global WLAN and how they cut support costs. Learn more! Researchers tout unique automated firewall fault fixer Automated policy tool can ease admin burden of managing firewallsResearchers will next will detail a tool they say will automate changes and significantly reduce the administrative upkeep of firewalls. Read More Father of Firesheep fires away after wild week in WiFi security Firesheep, the Mozilla Firefox add-on released about a week ago that lets you spot users on open networks visiting unsecured websites, has given creator Eric Butler more than his 15 minutes of fame. Read More Sony BMG rootkit scandal: 5 years later The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers' Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT security history. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Securing Virtualized Data Centers Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement. Read Now In-Depth Look at Boonana Malware Last week a malware threat emerged that impacted both Windows and Mac OS X systems. To be fair, the attack is more social engineering than PC exploit, but it impacts Mac OS X users just the same. ESET's David Harley has written a more detailed analysis of the Boonana threat, and identified some elements that are contrary to initial reports. Read More Sophos delights Mac users with free antivirus Security software company Sophos has finally broken ranks and decided to offer Mac users a free antivirus product without hidden strings. Read More Antivirus software didn't help in zero-day malware attack on power plant When the zero-day attack known as the "Here You Have" virus hit about 500 PCs at the Salt River Project, a large public power utility and water supplier for Arizona, it turned out that the antivirus software in use provided no defense. Read More WHITE PAPER: Array Networks Get Control of Your Datacenter Application Delivery Controller helps IT leverage data center technologies to quickly adapt to changing business demands. Read now! Security laws, regulations and guidelines directory This directory includes laws, regulations and industry guidelines with significant security and privacy impact and requirements. Each entry includes a link to the full text of the law or reg as well as information about what and who is covered. Read More Google Pays Cash to Hackers for Web App Security Flaws Wanted by Google: Bounty-hunting hackers who can find security vulnerabilities in popular Web apps. Read More Another Cisco cheater nabbed Minnesota man pleads guilty to $388,000 parts scam Another Cisco cheater has been nabbed. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that a Minnesota man has pled guilty to defrauding Cisco out of $388,000 in a spare parts scam. Under a plea deal, Philip Webb of Brooklyn Park, MN., this week pled guilty to one count of mail fraud for selling Cisco replacements parts online. He received the parts by sending Cisco secondhand gear that he claimed were defective products,... Read More The New CISO: How the role has changed in 5 years The role of CISO has evolved in the last five years from one of IT security administration to high-level risk management. Here are four perspectives on how and why it happened and how you can go about doing the job effectively today. Read More Security in the electric power industry: Riptech Report of 2001 This is another in a series of articles looking at security issues in the electric power industry. Today I review a baseline report from almost a decade ago that remains important for everyone studying these issues. In light of the Stuxnet worm attacks on tens of thousands of Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems around the world. Read More
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