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7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful

The IETF last Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 31 March, 2009 12:24

Tags: Cisco, Internet Architecture Board, Multiprotocol Label Switching, United States, verizon

Layoff backlash: Five steps to protect your business from angry ex-employees

A senior corporate executive leaves the company, taking with him his framed family photographs, his prized gold pen-and-pencil set -- and the passwords of several hundred employees.

By Julia King | 03 March, 2009 08:17

Tags: disgruntled employees, global recession, layoffs

How to avoid 5 common storage mishaps

Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.

By Mary Brandel | 10 February, 2009 09:12

Tags: data breach

The many faces of multifactor authentication

Lots of different ways to skin the cat.

A sneaky security problem, ignored by the bad guys

Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.

By Robert McMillan | 17 November, 2008 08:51

Tags: malware, rootkits

Software-based NAC security useful despite drawbacks

Despite some shortcomings, software-based network access control technology that enforces policies on network endpoints is often the first choice of customers who adopt the technology.

By Tim Greene | 13 November, 2008 09:44

Tags: nac

When the watchdog is the underdog

Think your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Listen to a security professional's horror stories, and you might think again.

By Lisa Vaas | 14 October, 2008 09:53

Tags: it management, staff management

Top 10 ways collaboration, mobility amplify data leakage dangers: Cisco study

Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.

By Jim Duffy | 01 October, 2008 10:04

Tags: Cisco

20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Back in 2004, InfoWorld's then-CTO Chad Dickerson polled the best and brightest to reveal 20 IT mistakes that were surefire recipes for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and in some cases, lost jobs.

By Neil McAllister | 16 September, 2008 08:33

Tags: applications, authentication, corporate issues, environment, personnel, programming, SaaS

How to recruit and retain the best young security employees

The final installment in a series of articles about generational differences and security. Part one looked at managing workers in different age groups. Part two examined the types of security concerns that are most commonly associated with different generations in the general workforce. This article provides recruiting and retention advice for security employees.

Does your generation pose an office security risk?

Whether you were born in the swinging sixties or are part of the slacker generation, some security experts say generational social influences can give you bad habits and make you an office liability.

Security and the generational divide

The generation gap. It's a term that has been used for decades to describe the differences between people in various age groups. Corporations are constantly considering what makes different generations tick when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees. But security experts say companies also need to examine age-based perspectives and habits when it comes to risk assessment and policies.

Former prosecutor: UFO hack looked like terrorist attack

After the computer network at the Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey was breached and crashed just a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, investigators thought it might be part of a larger al-Qaeda plot against the United States.

Norton Internet Security 2009 beta ramps up

Security software customers are speaking with their feet: They want security updates and other security interruptions out of their faces, and they won't hesitate to dump their security suites because of performance drag -- whether or not it's actually the security software that's to blame.

Fedora's FreeIPA offers identity, security services

Fedora 9, released last month, included the first release of FreeIPA, a new free/open source project that comes out of Red Hat with the goal of becoming a complete and integrated security information management solution. In this article we take a look at exactly what FreeIPA is, both what it can do now and what its developers hope it will be capable of in the future. It seems destined to become a key feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and with Fedora 9 released and FreeIPA tightly integrated, now seems to be the perfect time to explore this new technology.

The next security worry - the photocopier

Name the previously ignored network device that is now at the forefront of information security? The usual suspects would be PCs, laptops, portable storage, servers, and perhaps critical pieces of infrastructure such as firewalls and email gateways, but they aren't exactly ignored. The security industry has built its fortune securing those.

Vendor missteps keep network security a work in progress

When Cisco Systems announced in June 2004 that it planned to develop network access control technology, it drew enormous attention to what had been an obscure market niche.

Does sandbox security really protect your desktop?

Two years ago, GreenBorder, one of the early "sandbox" browsers, received mighty applause from Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg. The sandbox browser -- basically, a browser running in a virtual container -- promised to keep nasty code from spilling into a computer's operating system and wreaking havoc.

New attack trend pushes POS encryption to the fore

The relatively scant attention that retailers have paid to securing their point-of-sale systems over the past few years is making the POS setups increasingly attractive targets for cybercrooks who are looking to steal payment card data.

Privilege Access Management review highlights

A quick highlight of products from CyberArk, eDMZ Security, Quest and Symark.