Most network managers who use Asychronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay services plan to migrate to IPvirtual private networks (VPNs) or carrier Ethernet services within the next two years, a study has revealed.
When building an information security team, it is just as important to recruit on the basis of personality as it is to find someone with the right technical qualifications, according to Peter Berlich, a director of (ISC)2.
Spyware is the most rapidly evolving threat on the threat landscape at the moment, and it will continue this way into 2008, said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer of Webroot Software, at RSA Europe in London on 23 October.
GrIDsure, a British start-up providing a method to strengthen personal identification numbers, expects to announce that a major card issuer is introducing its system by the end of this year.
The European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) has detailed 17 significant threats to the privacy of users of social networking sites(SNSs). It has also suggested some remedies.
Despite concerns over national security, economic uncertainty, and the use of private data by fraudsters, the UK remains only "moderately" worried about these issues.
Nato ministers are meeting this week to draw up a draft cyber defence policy that could lead to wider international co-operation between members by mid-2008.