| Legislation would create new cybersecurity regulations Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would overhaul the nation's cybersecurity efforts, and would reportedly allow the government to regulate some private company cybersecurity efforts for the first time. PCI security standard gets flayed at House hearing The PCI standard, long touted as one of the private sector's best attempts to regulate itself on data security, is increasingly showing signs of coming apart at the seams. EMC targets e-mail archiving, e-discovery in new product line EMC is tackling e-mail archiving, e-discovery and legal compliance with a new set of software products announced Thursday under the brand name SourceOne. Federalizing Cybersecurity: Necessary or Nitwitted? The U.S. Government has had a lot of trouble getting its IT security house in order. Hackers from China and elsewhere keep breaking into government networks to conduct espionage. Federal cybersecurity directors keep quitting. Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices A group calling itself the Cloud Security Alliance announced its formation Tuesday, with eBay and ING as founding members. Data Security: Whose Job Is It Really? Forrester has a recommendation for CISOs struggling with how to secure corporate data... IETF: No consensus on IPv6 NATs The Internet's leading standards body appears split on a controversial proposal to specify network address translators (NAT) for IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol that was designed to eliminate such middle boxes from the Internet infrastructure. New security standard MashSSL builds application trust Application mashups are gaining traction in the enterprise. There's no doubt that productivity can be enhanced when new functionality can be delivered quickly and conveniently by combining information from multiple sources. However, there's a trade-off in application security. Mashups hold the potential to introduce a new network attack vector. A proposed new standard called MashSSL could eliminate the security concerns, making enterprise mashups as secure as any SSL transaction. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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