IBM app pushes security policies for the rest of us
IBM plans to announce a tool called Secure Perspective to help non-technical people establish security policies.
Stories by Ellen Messmer
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IBM ISS announces its speediest IPS model
IBM's Internet Security System division has announced its highest-speed intrusion-prevention system, with a top throughput of 15Gbps.
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IBM ups System z9 mainframe security
IBM Friday announced enhanced security features for its System z9 Business Class mainframe. The new features include IPSec-based network encryption using IBM's zIIP crypto engine, as well as host-based public-key encryption based on its CryptoExpress2 hardware module.
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Where's the virtual security?
Deployment of products that transform physical servers into "virtual machines" has resulted in nothing short of a data centre revolution. But virtualization of everything from operating systems to applications increasingly has critics asking: Where's the security?
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Survey reveals a third of IT managers report data breaches
In a recent survey of 83 corporate IT managers, 28 acknowledged having had to cope with a data breach, and half of those respondents reported significant related costs.
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IBM ISS announces IPS for small offices
IBM's Internet Security System division has announced an intrusion-prevention system, the GX 3002, designed primarily to guard against attacks against small branch offices or machines, such as bank ATMs or kiosks.
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Fortify identifies vulnerability in AJAX apps
Security vendor Fortify Monday said it has identified a JavaScript-related vulnerability that lets an attacker hijack a Mozilla or Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser session.
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Cisco announces IP surveillance camera
Cisco this week unveiled its video-surveillance product strategy during ISC West, a conference being held in Las Vegas that focuses on physical security systems.
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Core Security discovers IPv6-related flaw in OpenBSD
Core Security Technologies says it's discovered an IPv6-related buffer-overflow vulnerability in several versions of the OpenBSD operating system that would allow an attacker to knock a server offline or take control at the kernel level. The OpenBSD project, the group which makes the free operating system available, has issued a software patch to plug the hole.
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EEye displays enhanced Blink software
EEye Digital Security this week shipped its host-based Blink Professional 3.0 software, which combines antivirus, intrusion prevention, firewall and scanner functions. The multipurpose software will be on display in the exhibit hall at next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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Trend Micro updates SMB security package
Trend Micro introduced an updated version of its client-server messaging security software package for small-to-midsize business, adding antispyware protection for the desktop.
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Software vulnerabilities spiked 39 percent in 2006
The annual IBM Internet Security Systems security trends report published Tuesday shows 7,427 software bugs were cataloged last year, an increase of 39.5 percent over the number of vulnerabilities identified in 2005.
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Sophos takes aim at bad Web sites, misguided end users
Sophos Monday unveiled an appliance that can block access to harmful Web sites to prevent malware infection as well as filter out banned Web sites for productivity purposes.
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Websense announces deal to buy PortAuthority
Websense announced an agreement Wednesday to acquire start-up PortAuthority Technologies, a maker of data-leak prevention equipment, for about US$90 million (AUD$115).
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Check Point to acquire NFR Security
Check Point Software Technologies on Tuesday announced an agreement to acquire privately held NFR Security, a maker of intrusion-detection and -prevention systems, for approximately US$20 million.
