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Outsourcing is future of network management, say experts

By 2010, 60% of organisations will outsource major parts of their network management because of the difficulties and risks involved with managing services internally, Forrester Research has predicted.

Experts: IDS is here to stay

IDS technology has survived predictions that it would be replaced by IPS. One expert says it will remain a separate product while IPS is folded into firewalls.

Users of Symantec's Enterprise Firewall warned of security risk

Businesses using Symantec's Enterprise Firewall have been warned of a new security risk that could enable a hacker to login to a company's network. NTA Monitor said that if the firewall is configured for remote access (client-to-gateway) virtual private network (VPN) using pre-shared key (PSK) authentication, it would respond differently to valid and invalid usernames.

National Information Assurance Strategy is too little, too late, says industry

  • News analysis
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 22 August 2007
The government's latest plan for a National Information Assurance Strategy comes under fire from businesses and academics.

Trend Micro fixes flaws in ServerProtect, PC-cillin

Attackers could tamper with servers and run malicious code by exploiting flaws in Trend Micro's ServerProtect, Anti-Spyware and PC-cillin products. But fixes are available.

Microsoft adds CA vets to anti-malware team

Microsoft has hired Jakub Kaminski, one of CA's more talented and well-regarded antivirus researchers, and three of his colleagues from CA's Australian lab.

Managing the information maze

Information management (IM) has become an industry buzzword for the consolidation of information anything - information governance, information architecture, information integration. Executives find themselves awake at night worrying about what's happening with their information and where the value is. These concerns are justified given the numerous stores of information, the different places throughout a company where it exists and the recent raft of related legislation.

Seven years in jail for identity theft fraudster

A man in the US has been jailed for seven years for buying stolen identities from web forums run by cyber-criminals and using the information for bank fraud.

Skype failing on security, says Network Box

Businesses using the Skypevoice over IP (VoIP) system are being warned of the security implications.

Sourcefire acquires open source ClamAV

Sourcefire, maker of the popular Snort open source IDS tool, has acquired ClamAV, an open source email gateway scanning tool.
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