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While more secure than XP, Windows Vista still has security vulnerabilities. Learn how to address these vulnerabilities by securing Windows Vista upon deployment
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By Dan Swanson
A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security
The Auditor Responds: In short, the board of directors, management (of both staff and business lines), and internal audit functions all have significant roles in auditing information security. The big question for many companies is how these stakeholders should...
...security posture of a company. Each posture is determined by the line of business [type of industry] and the size of business [start-up or mid-size or large publicly traded
1. Don't Care for Security - These are early stage companies that don't have time for security since they are busy getting their product out. There are mid-size to large...
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they're different. You can feel secure even though you're not, and you can be secure even though you don't feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word -- the English language isn't working very well for us here -- and it can be hard to know which one we're talking about when...
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they're different. You can feel secure even though you're not, and you can be secure even though you don't feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word -- the English language isn't working very well for us here -- and it can be hard to know which one we're talking about when...
...security fascinating, you may be considering a career as an IT Security Professional. To help you decide, here are 10 myths about life as an IT Security Professional
IT Security is basically about Passwords and Anti-virus . This is completely untrue. You may hear this from people that dont get paid to do security, but think they know all...
...security tools at all, Cloud Computing may impact the way you calculate your IT security budgets. Assessing The Cost of Runtime Security
Security costs can be overt or hidden
budget items spread across infrastructure, security, compliance, midrange
the runtime security costs of security tools that execute on the systems
How many organisations...
...security, its hard to be optimistic where things are going wrt Web 2.0 security. Granted when Web 1.0 was built out did not have the ability to use static analysis to find vulnerabilities, we didn't have good identity standards and so on. So are we at a new a beginning where new tools and mechanisms will save our bacon? Or will Web 2.0 herald...
...security grows up to become an unmanageable complex beast. In some cases, this happens consciously where information security goes out of control, but in other cases this happens unconsciously where there is a slow but incremental increase in the complexity of information security which leads to chaos
The information security field is not...