Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011?

	Huge EFF Win: Fourth Amendment Protects Email Privacy | Microsoft ends record security year with huge Patch Tuesday
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	Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011? We're almost to the end of 2010 – how time does fly, especially as we get older. So over the next few weeks we'll gaze into the crystal ball to see if we can glean what's coming in the new year. I'll hold off on my own prognostications, but a slew of industry insiders and knowledgeable readers have stepped up to provide grist for the identity mill. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign® SSL Certificates now come with new features! Learn more! In this Issue Huge EFF Win: Fourth Amendment Protects Email Privacy Microsoft ends record security year with huge Patch Tuesday Symantec updating data-loss prevention suite CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme Gawker hack analysis reveals incredibly weak passwords What to do if your Gawker password was violated Huawei Symantec ready to compete in North America EU agency serves up smartphone security warning Internet hit by wave of fake PC 'defrag' tools BlackBerry 6: Wipe Your Smartphone, Restore Factory Settings WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Ten Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency You can't manage what you don't monitor. That's why infrastructure monitoring is essential to data center optimization. Emerson Network Power outlines what you should be monitoring, how to monitor it and the results you can expect. Take the proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring. Read now Huge EFF Win: Fourth Amendment Protects Email Privacy The U.S. Appeals Court ruled that stored email is protected by the Fourth Amendment. This federal decision will hopefully urge Congress to update the law so when the feds secretly demand a user's email, but do not have probable cause, an email provider can safely say, "Oh yeah? Come back with a warrant."In a tremendous landmark decision, the U.S. Appeals Court ruled that stored email is protected by the Fourth Amendment. Read More Microsoft ends record security year with huge Patch Tuesday Microsoft's security team broke all sorts of records for issuing patches this year, and 2010's final Patch Tuesday was the biggest one of all. Read More Symantec updating data-loss prevention suite Symantec plans to have an updated version of its data-loss prevention suite out by mid-2011 that will add advanced machine-learning capability to simplify data classification and keyword definitions of documents to ease administrative chores associated with properly setting up DLP controls. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase IT Guide to Managing Personal Devices in the Enterprise You can't avoid it any longer: Developing a strategy for managing employees' personal mobile devices. Get this paper and learn how to create a more secure and manageable mobile enterprise. It's yours, compliments of Sybase. Read More CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme The former chief information officer at a large U.S. automobile processing company has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the company by faking expense reports and reselling company equipment. Read More Gawker hack analysis reveals incredibly weak passwords The most popular password among nearly 400,000 exposed by the Gawker hack was "12345," according to a security firm's analysis. Read More What to do if your Gawker password was violated If you think your Gawker account has been compromised by this weekend's attack and you want to cancel it, you can't. Read More WHITE PAPER: Google Postini Top 5 Drivers for Email Archiving This paper demonstrates the various reasons to archive email and other electronic content. It discusses how to handle objections, highlights the five key business drivers for archiving, and provides quantifiable justifications that show cost savings and risk reduction. Read now! Huawei Symantec ready to compete in North America The Chengdu, China-based joint venture started in 2008 by China's Huawei networking company and U.S. storage and security company Symantec is now primed to take on the competition in North America, its general manager says. Read More EU agency serves up smartphone security warning Smartphone security needs to shape up pretty fast if it is to avoid the mistakes that turned the PC into a global crime platform, a new report from EU security agency ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) has said. Read More Internet hit by wave of fake PC 'defrag' tools A spate of scareware apps that trick users into buying useless hard disk repair tools appears to be part of a concerted campaign to push fake 'defrag' software, a security company has said. Read More BlackBerry 6: Wipe Your Smartphone, Restore Factory Settings Many reasons exist for why you might want or need to "security wipe" a BlackBerry, or completely erase all personal data stored on your handheld: You got a new smartphone and plan to retire the older device; you're trading in your existing BlackBerry for a new one from your wireless carrier; you and a friend are swapping devices; you loaded too many applications or media and just want to start over from scratch; etc. Read More
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