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The 2010 UK Infosecurity Virtual Conference - Provisional Conference Programme available.
The 2010 UK Infosecurity Virtual Conference - Provisional Conference Programme available.
We are pleased to outline the details for the next event, to be held on September 21st 2010. This one-day event brings a series of topical keynote sessions direct to your computer, giving you the flexibility to learn about the latest information security trends and challenges from wherever you are in the world.
Misconfigured networks open door to hackers
Research just released shows that IT security professionals think that a badly configured network is the main cause of network breaches.
Indirect facial recognition goes real-time
Although facial biometrics is in widespread use in airports, railway stations, and other transport hubs across the UK, the system generally only works in real time when the person is either facing the camera or at a slight angle.
McDonald's Fillet-o-phishing campaign lures users
Sophos warns computer users not to complete the survey offered in a phishing email disguised as a McDonald's survey
More revelations in the Mariposa botnet saga
More details are now emerging about the complex saga involving the Mariposa botnet since the alleged author of the malware - Iserdo - was arrested in Slovenia in late July.
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Podcasts
The explosion of Internet Threats - are we fighting a losing battle?
Ed Rowley, Senior Product Manager at M86 Security, discusses strategies for staying one step ahead of the increasing online attacks. He considers what steps organisations can reasonably take to balance the risks against the threats. About M86 Security M86 Security is the global expert in web and e-mail security. The company's appliance, software, and cloud-based solutions protect more than 24,000 organisations worldwide.
Securing your business against future internet threats
Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway speaks to Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Webroot, about how to secure your business against future internet threats. This podcast will examine how the internet has influenced business practices, and will look at the current and future threat landscape. This podcast will also: • Look at hacker motivations • Consider how businesses are protecting employees remotely • Touch on the evolution of malware • Analyse the impact of social networking • Highlight and recommend at multi-layered security approach • Address the hype around cloud services
Editorial Podcast: 27 November 2009
Kari Larsen summarises the week's news
Editorial Podcast: 5 November 2009
Kari Larsen summarises the week's news
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Webinars
Cloud security - protecting your data on the very public internet
Cloud computing has gone from zero to hero in the space of just five years, largely as a result of the clear economic benefits it brings to most organisations. This webinar will explain why most organisations need to re-engineer their existing IT security infrastructure before adding the benefits of cloud computing to their business technology mix.
The seven deadly sins of DLP: know your enemy and achieve success
The threats that today's organisations now face have grown significantly more dangerous in recent times. At the same time, the pervasiveness of the Internet means that a large slice of a company's IT resources must be connected to the Internet for mobile, as well as remote workers - and, of course, customers too. It's against this backdrop that you need to defend your organisation's data and avoid any regulatory action, as well as the very real reputational damage that can ensure from a data breach, however it is caused. Join us for an entertaining and informative webinar that will explain why you need to defend your data - and how you can you can cost-effectively defend those digital assets.
PCI compliance - are you ready for the change?
PCI compliance has continued to be a hot topic in 2010, mainly owing to the accelerating pace of PCI DSS governance requirements. For some time now, it has been mandatory for card-accepting companies to be compliant with the PCI DSS standards, but the playing field is changing once again, with new compliance requirements starting from this month onwards, and again in September.
Defending your data in the modern corporate environment
Internet-based business communications - including the transfer of files containing business-critical data - are central to most organisation's productivity in what is a highly competitive business marketplace. Despite the important nature of these communications, there are surprisingly few options for conducting this aspect of day-to-day operations easily, securely, and with the ability to centrally manage and track the transfers.
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Blogs
The Importance of Application Security
Posted by
Roger Halbheer
• 24 August 2010
I think I told this story thousands of times, and everybody knows it, but I will do it for the 1001st time now. When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland to...
tags: Development
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Blocking Social Media Sites–a False Sense of Security?
Posted by
Roger Halbheer
• 14 August 2010
I blog often about it: Blocking certain websites today can fire back in different ways. The CIO published an article called Workarounds: 5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites – and the...
tags: Social Media
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Adobe CS7 Searches Saturated With Dangerous Results
Posted by
Patrick Walsh
• 30 July 2010
Looking to save a few bucks on software will almost always lead users down a dangerous path. Users either end up at “OEM Software” sites offering unlicensed and illegal software, or t...
tags: oem software, malware, blackhat seo, pagerank bomb, adobe, microsoft
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Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats
Posted by
Roger Halbheer
• 28 July 2010
You know my opinion on collaboration between countries, on public-private-partnerships, as well as on collaboration between companies. For quite a while we have been running a program calle...
tags: Vulnerabilities
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Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud
Posted by
Roger Halbheer
• 06 July 2010
July 1st: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing was testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Basically the hearing was on the benefits...
tags: Cloud, Governments
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Features
Comment: Watch out – cybercriminals are about
Comment: Watch out – cybercriminals are about
It’s a dangerous online world, and you need to stay alert if you want to keep safe from scammers hell bent on stealing your credentials. Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer, looks at the tactics cybercriminals are using to dupe us into revealing more than we intend to, and gives seven defences to help keep our guards up.
Members' Content
How not to spend your infosec budget
How not to spend your infosec budget
Spending money on information security is essential for most companies – be it in the form of technology, awareness, or education – but it’s where you spend it that makes all the difference. Wendy M. Grossman investigates which technologies and activities are worthy of your budget, and which are a complete waste of money
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Comment: Extreme data protection in virtualised environments
Comment: Extreme data protection in virtualised environments
Peter Eicher of Syncsort draws from his 16 years of software industry experience to outline five data protection imperatives that organisations should consider during virtual server planning.
Members' Content
Does Web 2.0 need security 2.0?
Does Web 2.0 need security 2.0?
With the proliferation of Web 2.0 services, security concerns have escalated. Davey Winder investigates how infosec vendors are addressing these challenges and wonders whether security 2.0 actually exists
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Downloads
Safe and Social: the Benefits and Risks of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 applications provide productive new tools for business—and some of the biggest security threats. According to a recent study, 45% of organisations were infected through Web surfing or Web 2.0 application use in the last 12 months. While many businesses rely on these online tools, most of them do not maintain adequate defences against Web threats.
Anatomy of Insider Risk: Why You Could Be Your Worst Enemy
While organizations today are typically aware of the problems they face inside the firewall, the focus tends to be on malicious thieves and disgruntled employees, as opposed to the more common insider threat: well-meaning, but negligent, insiders. This white paper provides you with the four steps you need to minimise the risk from your well-meaning but negligent insiders.
The in's and out's of content filtering
Dr. Eugene Schultz, Chief Technology Officer, Emagined Security presented at our webinar titled ‘Unifying inbound and outbound content control: Secure your organisation’s web and email traffic’. This is the presentation that he gave.
Building Secure File Transfer Processes that Improve Security and Compliance
Protecting information assets–confidential intellectual property, sensitive customer data, financial information or private patient information–continues to be a top-of-mind issue for all enterprises.
Data Protection and Compliance in Complex Environments
Today's businesses are often under the gun to meet certain data protection requirements. Unfortunately, many companies lack a cohesive strategy for assimilating, managing, and protecting that data. New regulatory requirements are often placed upon businesses with stiff penalties for noncompliance, with equally demanding deliverable dates. Global organizations are even more complex due to international laws. In Data Protection and Compliance in Complex Environments: The CSO Executive Series by information security expert and author Kevin Beaver, readers will learn how to clearly classify, protect, and report on critical data that requires the highest due diligence and protection efforts.
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