Internet Network Security Blog

Search Results Get Safer; AOL Edges Google

December 11, 2006 at 3:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Last month, searches linked to 12% fewer sites judged risky by SiteAdvisor than six months ago; overall, 4.4% of the sites returned by five search engines were tagged with red or yellow warnings by SiteAdvisor.

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New Word Zero-Day Attacks Begin

December 6, 2006 at 2:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Microsoft acknowledged that specially crafted Word documents could be used to seize a computer, and urged users to use care when opening Word files sent by untrusted sources or that are received unexpectedly from trusted sources.

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Sales Of Fingerprint ID Systems Are Growing

December 5, 2006 at 11:37 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Sales of automated fingerprint-identification systems are expected to reach $160 million annually by 2010, according to government market researcher Input.

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NWC’s NAC Battleground

December 5, 2006 at 11:11 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Network Access Control, or NAC, has emerged as the technology approach of choice for securing enterprise assets. Twelve leading NAC vendors entered the NWC NAC Battleground to stake their architectural positions in the NAC market in their own words.

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McAfee Weaves Cisco NAC Into Total Protection

December 4, 2006 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

McAfee unveils a revamped version of its enterprise focused Total Protection offering that includes a range of beefed up security features and support for Cisco's network admission control (NAC) technology.

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NAC’s Missing Piece

December 3, 2006 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

The whole of NAC has centered around assessing an endpoint's health and controlling access by granting admission or enforcing quarantine. That's all well and good, but it's not really access control.

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TechTracker: Incident Response Tools

December 1, 2006 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Incident-response tools are becoming increasingly important as new regulations and legislation stipulate disclosure after security breaches. These advancements in memory-dump analysis can help you find a wealth of evidence in both civil and criminal investigations.

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Architecting for Data Security

December 1, 2006 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

IT pros must understand and address the liability associated with granting unfettered access to sensitive data. We explore methods for safeguarding private information while keeping it usable for applications.

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Enterprises Still Gambling on Mobile Device Security

December 1, 2006 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Given the rash of high-profile data breaches and the ease with which mobile devices can be lost or stolen, what reason could companies offer for failing to implement security policies?

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