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Hole Found in Vendors' VPN Gear
Virtual private network products from a variety of vendors, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc., are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack because of a bug recently discovered by researchers at Finland's University of Oulu. The flaw affects a component of the IPsec protocol used by VPN software and hardware to securely exchange data over the Internet.
Sober Variants Popping Up
More variants of the mass-mail Sober worm are making the rounds of the Internet and could infect Windows-based computers, antivirus firms Kaspersky Lab and Symantec Corp. warned last week. Thus far, the variants present a low risk and haven't been widely distributed.
Security Bookshelf
Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security, by Himanshu Dwivedi (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005).
Storage is often overlooked from a security perspective, though the data we're trying to protect usually ends up on some form of network storage device. This book begins by helping the reader understand storage concepts and their inherent weaknesses and security issues before recommending how to store data securely. Especially interesting are the chapters on domain-hopping attacks and securing network-attached storage. Highly recommended. -- Mathias Thurman
Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing...
Why Compliance Pays
This OnDemand webcast explores the relationship that firms with best compliance records have higher revenue, greater customer retention, lower financial losses from data...
An All-in-One Approach to Web Security
Granting web access to employees poses challenges to IT administrators and introduces unique security risks. Even as companies have perfected their security techniques...
Best Practices for Managing Business Risks from the Use of IT
(Source: Symantec) Based on exhaustive benchmarks conducted by the IT Policy Compliance, this session highlights the relationship between business risks and use of...
The Hidden Dangers of Spam
Beyond the well-understood productivity drain that spam inflicts on businesses, threats posed by illicit email circulating through a network are causing many security...
Managing And Protecting Your Ever Increasing Mobile Assets
(Source: Absolute Software) Your users are becoming more mobile each day. This is great for productivity - yet challenging for IT control. Natalie...
Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
(Source: Astaro) Open Source Software is computer software whose source code is available to the general public. This openly viewable nature...
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise Webinar
(Source: Sun) This webinar replay discusses Sun OpenSSO Enterprise innovation--the single, open-source solution that helps your business solve the challenges around internal access...
Best Practices for Backing Up VMware® with Veritas NetBackup™
VMware® is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. With this in mind, Symantec...
Agile Enterprise Content Management (ECM) for Rapid ROI
(Source: IBM) Content rich business processes are a core feature of daily operations at just about any organization today. Very often these essential...
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