The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is using complex event processing (CEP) software to monitor transactions as it attempts to find the source of rumours that threatened HBOS last week.
Janet, the organisation that operates the UK's education and research computer network, is to use a Sophos ES4000 e-mail appliance to try to stem the tide of spam...
There is only one thing worse than realising that you have left your laptop in the back of a taxi. That is the recollection that you have not encrypted any of the data on it - including all of your contact information, your sensitive e-mails, all of your online passwords, and that spreadsheet full of customer names and addresses.
Once the focus of IT security was the network and its perimeter: stop hackers and viruses getting onto your network and you will secure your business. But over the last couple of years, businesses have begun to realise they left the back door open.
Ensuring that your IT infrastructure is protected against the myriad of different threats is a vastly complicated process; requiring the management and coordination of hardware, software and outsourced services.