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November 20, 2008

Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:53 PM/EST

Why We Need More Secure Operating Systems

A lot of the problems we encounter with security can be traced back to the dawn of computing. The simple fact of the matter is that the major operating systems in use today were not build with security in...

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November 17, 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 3:46 PM/EST

A Lack of Standards Holds GRC Back

The one thing that just about everybody is certain will happen in 2009 is the fact that we're going to see a whole lot more emphasis on governance, risk management and compliance (GRC). After all, just about every economic...

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November 5, 2008

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:08 AM/EST

Security Comes to Cloud Computing

With the rise of cloud computing services a lot of attention is now being paid to potential security issues. The concern that most internal IT organizations raise when it comes to cloud computing services is that they can not...

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October 23, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:18 PM/EST

Security Becomes Mission Critical for Developers

One of the major security issues of the day is how little responsibility developers take for making applications secure. We have more or less created a culture where responsibility for securing the overall computing environment fell to network professionals...

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Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:19 PM/EST

A Virtualization Crisis Waiting to Happen

One of the more intangible benefits of virtualization is that it helps isolate the data residing in our applications from the underlying operating systems that all too often have been the point of attack for various digital miscreants. There's...

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October 17, 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008 6:51 AM/EST

The Transformation of Symantec

After an acquisition binge that shows no sign of abating, Symantec is experiencing something roughly akin to an identity crisis. And no, this issue has nothing really to do with identity management software per se. If you trace the...

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September 8, 2008

Monday, September 08, 2008 6:01 PM/EST

HP Partners with Symantec on Browser Security

In one of those bizarre twists of industry, Hewlett-Packard today came out with new desktop PC systems that come configured with a new security option: a more secure implementation of the Firefox browser developed by Symantec. Given all the...

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August 25, 2008

Monday, August 25, 2008 9:31 AM/EST

Digital Crime Fighters Look to Prevent Fraud

Now that the economy looks like it's faltering a lot more folks are starting to turn their attention towards digital fraud. With estimates of the amount of digital fraud being perpetrated now reaching as high as $994 billion in...

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August 4, 2008

Monday, August 04, 2008 8:05 AM/EST

Security Via the Cloud Arrives

The single biggest issue most companies have with security today is what it costs to be secure. Every where you go there has been an explosion of security devices that all purport to deal with some specific issue or...

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July 22, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:57 AM/EST

DNS Case Shows Hackers May Be Maturing

Given all the fuss over a recently exposed DNS flaw that has the potential wreck all kinds of havoc across the globe, you might easily conclude that we're not making a whole lot of progress when it comes to...

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