Deadline: 5 April 2009
Publication date: Articles will run through the
month of May 2009
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Security in the cloud
In the last few years, cloud computing has grown from being a
promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments
of the IT industry.
Now, recession-hit companies are increasingly realising that
simply by tapping into the cloud they can gain fast access to
best-of-breed business applications or drastically boost their
infrastructure resources, all at negligible cost. But what are the
security implications?
Plugging data leaks
Data loss prevention (DLP) technology has plenty of hype blowing
its sails, but it is also being carried along by a serious
undercurrent. Organisations have no choice but to follow its drift
– they have to take it seriously. UK watchdogs the Information
Commissioner (ICO) or the Financial Services Authority will come
down hard with fines, not to mention possible public humiliation if
slack security policies lead to data loss. And the more
constructive and preventative steps taken now, the better, experts
believe. Unless firms and other organisations are seen to be
plugging the leakage of information, they will bring greater
policing on the industry as a whole.
Securing Windows XP
Microsoft is ending its mainstream support for all flavours of
Windows XP on 14 April 2009, including Windows XP Professional and
Windows XP Professional x64. How do you keep it secure.
How to secure a smartphone
Smartphone may well be increasingly complicated, and ever more
difficult to secure, but for now, it is simple, low cost, actions
that mitigate the likeliest threats.
Protecting applications
This article will provide a market overview of the web
application firewall market.