All Security Software News - November 2007

Inverclyde saves with fibre network

Inverclyde Council has implemented an advanced £3m fibre-based network to save on its communications costs.

The Land Registry in security scare

The Land Registry will block online access to sensitive data following a security flaw being identified on its online registry service.

IBM offers PCI compliance programme

IBM is offering a one-stop shop for the 12 stages of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.

Security zone: outsourcing improves security jobs

Companies of all sizes are outsourcing some part of their IT and concentrating on their core business activities and strategic IT plans. Even where IT operations are retained in-house, some activities will still be performed by external providers.

China picks up the cyberbaton with five-year plan

In the 1980s the Japanese government caused a global stir with its long-term, heavily integrated 5th Generation Programme to achieve a step change advantage in supercomputing. The West suddenly found itself behind the Japanese and scrambled to compete.

Eye of newt and toe of frog make spam a heady grog

A run of Halloween spam has been spotted inviting recipients to visit a website and download a "dancing skeleton" - a program that purports to create a novelty dancing skeleton on your desktop.

Using SEM to get a clearer picture of security threats

Security event management (SEM) tools are designed to monitor security events across an organisation's network. They work by correlating data from a range of IT security systems - including firewalls, routers and anti-virus systems - and predicting threat levels based on this aggregated data.

Dr Who and the fable of the exploding door

What the timelord can teach us about IT security

IBM adopts risk e-strategy

Businesses leave far too much to chance and need to be more proactive in managing operational and IT risk, IBM has announced, as it launched its "Enterprise to the Edge" scheme to manage risk.

Online gambling site claims remote web-security win

Online gambling site Victor Chandler claimed today that it can ensure instant web security in remote offices where it has little or no IT infrastructure. If true, this could lead the way to similar breakthroughs in banking and public sector organisations with similarly remote, unsupported outposts.
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