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Forrester: IT must prove need for disaster recovery tools

2008-05-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b732d8 in Network World on Security
 
Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research Inc., IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems. Forrester analyst Stephanie Balarous said managers must work to convince corporate executives that...
 
Tags: disaster recovery, disaster, disaster recovery systems, systems, boost operational efficiency, potential failures, insurance policy, forrester research, business leaders
 
 
 
 
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A MUST Read From Rich: "11 Truths We Hate to Admit" About Security

2008-01-31 16:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Rich's "11 Truths We Hate to Admit" About Security is a must read (and think about Examples are 2. The bad guys beat us because they're agnostic and we're religious 4. Vendors are like politicians they lie to us because we ask them to 8. Network security is the result of a mistake, not an industry worth perpetuating 9. Disclosure is dead ...
 
Tags: security, network security, bad guys, admit, rich, industry worth, truths, politicians, dead
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
TechCrunchIT reported today that a Rackspace data center went down for several hours during the evening due to a power grid failure. Because Rackspace is a managed service provider (MSP), the downtime affected several businesses hosted in the data center When companies think of disaster recovery and downtime, they typically think of catastrophic...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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Britain mulling "random" audits to enhance data protection..

2007-11-07 17:41:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Britain's House of Lords recently issued a report on Internet security , urging the Government to examine as a matter of urgency that country's laws regarding standards of data protection as they apply to businesses. The report says current laws on the books don't have enough teeth; it says the government should have the authority to conduct...
 
Tags: data, data protection, apparently treat data, personal data, secure data, businesses responsible, current laws, data safe, businesses
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Malware Scam iSexPlayer Wants Your Money

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2008-07-09 07:42:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
A bogus media player ( iSexPlayer.jar ) targeting Symbian S60 3rd edition devices according to several affected parties, is currently being spammed through blackhat search engine optimization. Once infected upon confirming its execution since it's doesn't seem to be exploiting a specific vulnerability besides "bargain hunters" desire for free...
 
Tags: isexplayer, install, install isexplayer, access, internet access, isexplayer access module, phone, blackhat seo sites, sites
 
 
 
 
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Are you using the latest web browser?

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2008-07-16 13:24:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
Written by Thomas Duebendorfer In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages - with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks - security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser. By analyzing the web...
 
Tags: browser, web browser, browser version, versions, secure versions, obsolete browser, web browser versions, web browser users, web
 
 
 
 
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Industry trends - Survey results on Risk Management

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2007-11-26 13:11:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
Industry trends - Survey results on Risk Management Posted by: Ryan Shopp While Bryan continues to blog about practical experiences in IT Risk Management, I'm going to aggregate some key trends and insights on the industry as a hole. As previously promised, we will continue to stay away from product advertisements, etc. Just useful (hopefully)...
 
Tags: risk management, enterprise, enterprise security risks, security, approach security, enterprise risk management, survey, survey results, security program
 
 
 
 
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Feature Request #1: Stable Code

2008-06-30 04:01:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
I have a note to all network hardware vendors Dear network vendor As someone that is forced to configure and implement security on your hardware, I would greatly appreciate stable code and properly functioning features. Unfortunately, I cannot always choose the hardware my customers are using in their infrastructure. However, if you would like...
 
Tags: code, stable code, support, post-sales support, current maintenance contract, current, maintenance contract, security engineer, security
 
 
 
 
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Muddy Waters

2008-07-16 10:50:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In Waters Rankings 2008 , Waters stirs the mud and confusion in the CEP/EP community by having their constituents vote on both an ESP solution and an CEP solution set, but giving both awards to vendors with stream processing (ESP) engines The two CEP/ESP related Waters categories were, Best Streaming Data Management Solution and Best Complex...
 
Tags: waters, solution, data management solution, awards, waters awards, complex event, event, esp solution, waters rankings