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	Warning: HIPAA has teeth and will bite over healthcare privacy blunders Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators. Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Economics of Spam Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now In this Issue Hot products from DEMOfall '11 Inside Cisco global security operations Security pros come clean at Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros PCI point-to-point encryption guidelines raise new questions Windows 8 will run from USB thumb drive Microsoft patches 15 bugs, nukes more SSL certificates Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates' Senator to businesses: Protect data or pay Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks U.S. needs to be on-guard for a big cyber-attack With help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip SpyEye hacking kit adds Android infection to bag of tricks WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! Hot products from DEMOfall '11 New products that help you to screen job applicants, improve customer service and even build yourself a tomb Read More Inside Cisco global security operations Cisco's Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) provides threat information, vulnerability analysis, and mitigation solutions to enterprise customers. Staff and resources are at work around the world, including at 11 Threat Operations Centers. Network World visited Cisco's TOC in Austin, Texas, for an inside look at how the distributed security teams come together. Read More Security pros come clean at Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats Put about 100 chief information security officers, CIOs and CEOs into a room and what they are willing share about cybersecurity just might surprise you. More information about just what they shared will be revealed soon in a report stemming from a closed-door Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats held in Washington, D.C., in July, where business and government security professionals acknowledged to each other that their organizations had either been hacked through stealthy infiltration to steal valuable sensitive information and intellectual property, or that they wouldn't know it if it had been. Read More DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Socializing your UC Strategy Beyond standard cost savings – minimizing a bit of travel or enabling you to consolidate some servers or voicemail systems – UC is really about improving productivity by stitching together various systems employees rely on. Learn more PCI point-to-point encryption guidelines raise new questions The PCI Security Standards Council today is expected to issue guidelines on use of point-to-point encryption in protecting sensitive payment card data, but the narrow approach — which is focused on hardware — is raising questions. Read More Windows 8 will run from USB thumb drive Windows 8 will include a new feature that lets IT administrators provide workers with a portable Windows environment on a USB thumb drive. Read More Microsoft patches 15 bugs, nukes more SSL certificates Microsoft today patched 15 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and other software with five security updates. Read More Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates' Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Senator to businesses: Protect data or pay Senator Richard Blumenthal says his data breach legislation will deter data breaches. IT security experts have their doubts. Read More Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks A research team at North Carolina State University has proposed a way of measuring the impact of wireless denial-of-service attacks on Wi-Fi networks. It's a step toward building focused counter-measures that can make such attacks costly to pull off. Read More U.S. needs to be on-guard for a big cyber-attack A destructive attack from cyberspace "is coming, in my opinion. It is a question of time. What we don't know is how far out it is," and whether it will target commercial infrastructure, government networks or mobile platforms Army Gen. Keith Alexander told attendees of the "Maneuvering in Cyberspace" symposium this week. Read More With help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip Nearly seven months after Intel shelled out US$7.68 billion for antivirus vendor McAfee, the two companies are offering a glimpse of their future. Read More SpyEye hacking kit adds Android infection to bag of tricks The SpyEye hacking toolkit has added an Android component that collects the text messages some banks use as an extra security precaution, a researcher said today. Read More
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