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Airport Security Study

2007-12-27 06:28:31 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Surprising nobody, a new study concludes that airport security isn't helping: A team at the Harvard School of Public Health could not find any studies showing whether the time-consuming process of X-raying carry-on luggage prevents hijackings or attacks. They also
 
Tags: airport security, public health, harvard school, study concludes, attacks, studies, team, process
 
 
 
 
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Study: Biggest businesses rely more on service providers for messaging security

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
More and more large businesses are turning to a combination of message-security services and on-site security appliances to guard against malicious behavior carried out via e-mail and other messaging software, a recent IDC study says
 
Tags: recent idc study, on-site security appliances, businesses, malicious behavior, combination, services, guard, e-mail, software
 
 
 
 
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Developing a Culture of Privacy: A Case Study

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Many organizations that are otherwise sensitive to protecting trade secrets or confidential business data have only recently considered protecting personal information. This column offers a glimpse of how one organization is attempting to develop a culture of privacy with a case study that others might find useful
 
Tags: confidential business data, personal information, column offers, trade secrets, study, privacy, culture, recently, develop
 
 
 
 
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NAP case study published

2008-02-01 11:50:25 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...study. The government of Fulton County serves a population of nearly one million in northwest Georgia. Its IT department supports 5,000 employees in 400 buildings, dozens of agencies, airports, fire stations, police stations, courts, public-health clinics, and libraries. Its mixed IT infrastructure includes mainframes, clustered servers,...
 
Tags: network, network access protection, nap, fulton county serves, faced network disruptions, county, help-desk call volume, infrastructure includes mainframes, multiple topologies
 
 
 
 
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Study: Digital universe and its impact bigger than we thought

2008-03-11 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
By 2011, there will be 1,800 exabytes of electronic data in existance or 1.8 zettabytes (an exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes). In fact, the number of bits stored already exceeds the estimated number of stars in the universe, according to a new study by IDC. The creation of that data will have far reaching impact on corporations and their...
 
Tags: electronic data, data, billion gigabytes, study, universe, impact, exceeds, exabyte, existance
 
 
 
 
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Case Study: Consolidating Servers While Keeping Them in Sync with DR

2008-05-05 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Dell & VMWare) This VMware case study describes how a professional corporation utilizes production servers more effectively while keeping them in sync with their disaster recovery site. By using VMware Infrastructure 3, their data center size is significantly reduced, thousands or dollars in hardware costs are saved, and availability of...
 
Tags: vmware infrastructure, vmware, disaster recovery site, professional corporation, production servers, data center, hardware costs, sync, study describes
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance software revenue to quadruple by 2013: study

2008-05-30 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
In a new study that has potentially Orwellian implications, ABI Research projects that revenue for video surveillance software will quadruple over the next five years
 
Tags: abi research projects, video surveillance software, quadruple, orwellian implications, revenue, study
 
 
 
 
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Most data breaches discovered too late, study says

2008-06-11 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Most enterprises only learn about data breaches in their networks months after their data has already been compromised, according to a new study conducted by Verizon Business
 
Tags: data, data breaches, verizon business, networks months, study, enterprises
 
 
 
 
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Study: Unpatched Web browsers prevalent on the Internet

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x847372c in Network World on Security
 
Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, according to a new study published by researchers in Switzerland
 
Tags: web browsers, diligent hackers, study, switzerland, percent, researchers, remainder, threats, people