Security

Tue, June 22, 2010 - The good, the bad and the ugly of data-loss prevention tools and technologies got a solid once over from Gartner analyst Eric Ouellet, who spared no punches during his presentation on the topic during the first day of Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit.

Tue, June 22, 2010 - As part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. But Apple's iPad isn't slated to get the iOS 4 update until this fall.

Tue, June 22, 2010 - Worried about how to link IT networks with business partners without getting burned? Forrester analyst Usman Sindhu offers a 4-step strategy to ensure trust.

Tue, June 22, 2010 - Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security's Web application firewall together with Trustwave's own enterprise security tools.

Mon, June 21, 2010 - Wireless has become a part of our official and personal lives. Securing against wireless threats has been and will continue to be an important piece in the overall enterprise security puzzle. However, as if following Darwin's theory of evolution, wireless security myths too are born, evolve and then die to be replaced by new ones.

Mon, June 21, 2010 - AT&T, Facebook, Google, McAfee, Adobe and others say "We’re sorry" for assorted security, privacy and performance problems in 2010.

Mon, June 21, 2010 - For all its promise of revolution, the computing industry often lags behind expectations. After all, your netbook is really just a laptop, only smaller and cheaper. The chip that powers your PC today has a direct lineage back to the Pentiums of yesterday. Your latest hard drive might hold 2TB, but it's still just a hard drive. Where's the real innovation?

Mon, June 21, 2010 - What any smart IT department should know before allowing a 4G device onto its network.

Sun, June 20, 2010 - Despite the fact that network access control hasn't yet lived up to its initial promise, NAC is very much alive, as evidenced by the fact that 12 vendors participated in our NAC test, including industry leaders Microsoft, HP, Juniper, McAfee, Symantec and Alcatel-Lucent.

Fri, June 18, 2010 - Evolutionary IT's Joseph Guarino explains how to achieve network security the open way (Third in a series on open-source security solutions)