If you are responsible
for finding
vulnerabilities on large
or small enterprise
networks, you are faced
with a variety of
political and technical
challenges in doing your
job. Fortunately, there
have been a variety of
new devel...
Every organization is
confronted with the
question of how best to
manage digital identities
in order to effectively
control access to and
use of its IT application
resources. To grasp the
extent of this
challenge, consider the
...
The security industry has
a massive problem.
Despite a constant flow
of patches, millions
spent on firewalls and
IDS, and updated security
procedures, we're still
plagued by the insider
threat - malicious
hackers infiltrating
n...
Inevitably, intruders'
most attractive targets
have the weakest
defenses. Therefore, it
shouldn't be surprising
that enterprise
applications and
databases are
increasingly coming under
attack from the kind of
threats once asso...
Storage networks have
become critical
components of corporate
computing environments.
Regardless of the type of
storage technology, these
networks have been
designed as if the
storage environment and
all of the components
are a...
You wouldn't consider
buying a laptop at your
nearest consumer
electronics store and
bringing it into the
office to work on, right?
What about a RAID disk or
a CD drive? - didn't
think so. Yet one device
that nearly everyone buys
...
New security threats are
growing in frequency,
sophistication, and
danger. While
perimeter-focused
security can mitigate
risk from known attacks,
real protection comes
from identifying and
reacting to any new
threat the instan...
Mention storage in the
same breath as Sarbanes
Oxley and the immediate
reaction of senior
management might be to
hide the checkbook.
Invariably a vendor is
making a pitch on how the
latest, and greatest,
WORM-enabled,
opto-mag...
Spare a thought for the
compilers of dictionaries
in the Digital Age.
Technology is always
moving beyond the
confines of the alphabet.
If you were given only 26
choices, for example,
what would you list as
the chief concerns of IT ...
Because of today's
emphasis on stakeholder
accountability and
changing oversight
structures, business
management is more
answerable than at
anytime in the past for
assuring the accuracy,
protection, and access
to, financial and...
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IT groups need to be able
to consider adopting new
backup software for many
good reasons. New
software might have
features and benefits the
company needs. The curren
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This article is an
excerpt from Risk
Management for Computer
Security: Protecting
Your Network &
Information Assets.
Printed with permission
from Butterworth-Heinem