Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. RSA Conference kicks off on somber note The RSA Conference, which has become the annual tribal gathering for information-technology security professionals from around the world since it was first started 18 years ago, kicks off here this week amid a somber note due to the economic crisis. CA makes security a priority Security technology isn't new for CA, but this year at its 12th CA World user conference in Las Vegas the company identified security as one of three focal areas (the others are governance and management). Senior Editor Denise Dubie sat down with Bilhar Mann, senior vice president and general manager of CA security management, to learn more. CSOs need to keep evolving, CA security exec says This is a transcript of a keynote address presented at the RSA Conference on Thursday by Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager for CA's Security Management Business Unit. The address is titled: "Strategic Security: The Evolving Role of the Security Professional." CA security software for businesses gets upgrades CA announced upgrades to two software-security suites, one for large companies and one for small and midsize businesses. Entitlement management: Access control on steroids Faced with looming regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Craig Shumard, chief information security officer for healthcare provider Cigna, knew he needed better tools for role-based access control. CA to buy ID management vendor Eurekify CA Thursday announced it had inked a deal to acquire role-based access and identity management vendor Eurekify for an undisclosed sum. CA jockeys for stronger position in security, management markets CA this week is set to unveil a slew of security, management and automation products that have industry watchers and IT managers speculating the embattled software vendor may succeed at making its technology better integrated and easier to use. CA to buy data-leak prevention vendor CA Monday announced an agreement to acquire for an undisclosed sum data-leak prevention vendor Orchestria, boosting the software maker's security, privacy and compliance technologies. What's going on with on H-1B visas Microsoft Subnet blogger Kerrie Meyler noticfes that the government has yet to reach the cap of 65,000 petitions for general H-1B visas. She wonders what is going on? 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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