Friday, November 02, 2007

Q1 Labs' log management appliance; PCI compliance begins with policy

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Compliance News Alert




Network World's Standards and Regulations News Alert, 11/02/07

Q1 Labs offers log management appliance, 10/30/07: Network security management vendor Q1 Labs breaks off a bit of technology to address customers' log management requirements in light of PCI and other compliance regulations.

PCI compliance begins with policy, 11/01/07: Trying to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard can be intimidating because it is a highly prescriptive, broad-reaching set of requirements, potentially including all of your information systems in its scope.

IBM, Akamai look to help with PCI compliance, 11/01/07: The mandate for Payment Card Industry (PCI) security compliance got attention this week from Akamai and IBM, as each promised new services oriented toward helping companies through the PCI audit process.

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Industry standards vs. proprietary technologies, 10/26/07: Standards have won over corporate buyers, not that proprietary technologies don’t have their benefits.

5 things Tom Ridge has learned about risk, 10/29/07: Tom Ridge is the two-term governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. secretary of homeland security. He recently launched Ridge Global, an advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. Ridge believes another terrorist attack is likely.

Podcast: How to prepare your staff for a security attack: Being prepared before the next security attack is critical for your enterprise. Learn three strategies that can help you create a security aware culture at your company. Keith Shaw talks with Paula Hamm, VP of education and business critical services for Symantec Global Services, about the processes and strategies involved with being ready for a data security attack (19:28).

FTC: More spyware-fighting tools needed, 10/29/07: Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.

7-year Internet tax ban heads to president, 10/30/07: The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law. The House on Tuesday approved the Senate version of the Internet tax moratorium, which would ban Internet-only taxes such as access taxes for seven years. The current ban has been in effect since 1998, except for a lapse during most of 2004.

Can you build a mesh 802.11n backbone yet?, 10/31/07: High-speed aggregate core networks built from a mesh of intercommunicating Draft 2.0 802.11n nodes could alleviate having to cable every wireless LAN access point to an Ethernet switch.

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