US adopting new cyber attack plan for security warriors

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	US adopting new cyber attack plan for security warriors Department of Defense lays out plan to link government and private industry security experts Can the US government and private industry unite to fight off those who are intent on waging cyber anarchy? The Defense Department hopes so and it has devised a plan to help promote that cooperation. More on security threats: Stolen US military IDs ideal cover for army of online dating scammers Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer Download Free XenServer XenServer is the only enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform you don't have to pay for. With live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to try it! Click to continue In this Issue Bruised by Anonymous, HBGary Federal pulls out of RSA Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say CA cloud service measures security risk, keeps out riff-raff McAfee, Intel subsidiary Wind River join forces to head off future Stuxnet-like attacks Cisco's Security Architecture Using your Active Directory for VPN authentication on ASA Juniper aims to ease and speed configuration of virtual gateways Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Internet safe Four skills CISOs need now WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion PacketSentry Virtual Segmentation While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter, when deployed internally for PCI scope segmentation they have significant deficiencies. This white paper outlines the issues faced with leveraging firewalls for internal network segmentation, and how PacketSentry bypasses these issues with a unique out of band approach. Read now! Bruised by Anonymous, HBGary Federal pulls out of RSA E-mails stolen by hactivist group Anonymous indicate that the security company it targeted was planning to make a "new breed of rootkit" and that it passed along t plan to a technoe company's plan to a technology firm that caters to the federal government. Read More Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say Acknowledging that security technologies to prevent cyberattacks are insufficient, several vendors at the RSA Conference urged companies that are making security plans to assume that at some point, they will be breached. Read More CA cloud service measures security risk, keeps out riff-raff CA Technologies today announced its cloud-authentication service now features advanced controls to let customers more effectively control who gets into corporate applicaitions. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Benefits of Cloud Computing Although the benefits of cloud computing are clear, so is the need to develop proper security for cloud implementations. The following whitepaper provides an overview of key security issues related to cloud computing, concluding with the IBM Point of View on a secure cloud architecture and environment. Read Now McAfee, Intel subsidiary Wind River join forces to head off future Stuxnet-like attacks McAfee, which will soon be an Intel subsidiary, and Wind River, which already is one, Wednesday announced they are hardening the security of industrial commercial operating systems supplied by Wind River to makers of products such as automated teller machines, medical devices, TV set-top boxes and cameras. Read More Cisco's Security Architecture SecureX: The Right DirectionI'm at the paranoid geek-fest otherwise known as the RSA Conference. The event kicked off on Monday with a Cisco press conference announcing a new security architecture known as SecureX. SecureX isn't anything brand new, rather it is the consolidation of a number of Cisco products (ASA, TrustSec, IronPort), management tools, and cloud services. What's new here is the architecture. By combining... Read More Using your Active Directory for VPN authentication on ASA Using Active Directory as a LDAP server with ASAFor a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the addition of LDAP support on ASA, this changed and it was possible to authenticate directly to AD. Configuring this is sometimes cumbersome. In this two part series, I will discuss LDAP configuration on ASA... Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Narrow the Breach-to-Detection Gap for Better Security What's more important, security or compliance? Most IT shops are focused on compliance but breaches are still happening. A recent study by Verizon Business concludes that evidence of those breaches tends to be right there in log files. Read More Now. Juniper aims to ease and speed configuration of virtual gateways Juniper Networks is introducing a virtual security gateway that integrates with its physical security gateway so customers need not configure their security zones twice when working in a mixed physical-virtual environment. Read More Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Internet safe Should ISPs be the ones who keep hacked PCs off the Internet? Microsoft's chief security executive used to think so, but now he's had a change of heart. Read More Four skills CISOs need now Leading a security program within an organization has taken on a new shape, says career expert Lee J. Kushner. What skills do security professionals need to hone now in order to be competitive in the job market? Read More
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