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	Average annual cost of PCI compliance audit? $225k Merchants that undergo network audits to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are paying an average of $225,000 each year. Read More WHITE PAPER: St. Bernard 6 Steps to Evaluating Web Filtering This paper guides you through the pros and cons of a software-based solution vs. an appliance-based filter and advises on considerations ranging from implications of your acceptable use policy to properly authenticating individuals. Read More In this Issue The old privacy versus security debate Open Identity Exchange backs U.S. gov't privacy guidelines RSA extends security tools to VMware Nero SecurDisc: Improved Security For Optical Storage Media Protect Data With On-the-Go Drive Encryption One Man's Life on the Security D-List Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit Researchers find way to zap RSA security scheme Former NSA tech chief: I don't trust the cloud Check Point puts VPN in USB stick E-GUIDE: Compuware 5 Tips for Getting the Best Web App Performance This eBook, compiled by Network World, explores the pressing issues, from dealing with outages and evaluating performance monitoring services, to the impact of virtualization. Get expert tips to optimize your Web apps Learn More Now The old privacy versus security debate There's been an ongoing debate over the last decade about how best to balance privacy versus security in the context of homeland security. Can the government tap our phones or e-mail accounts in order to thwart a possible terrorist plot? Do we have to open our bags to TSA screeners before we can get on a plane in order to prevent a hijacking? The privacy versus security debate also applies to how we... Read More Open Identity Exchange backs U.S. gov't privacy guidelines Google, Equifax, Verizon and others launched the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) this week to support federal government guidelines for online privacy and security. Read More RSA extends security tools to VMware EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualization trend that its VMware spinoff helped kick off, announcing Thursday that three of its core security products will work in VMware virtualized environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: BeyondTrust Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. In this paper, EMA analysts examine BeyondTrust PowerBroker, a comprehensive solution designed to close these gaps for the enterprise with provable control. Read More Nero SecurDisc: Improved Security For Optical Storage Media Nero, makers of optical media-burning software, has announced a new version of its SecurDisc data- protection technology, which should increase your chances of recovering content from damaged CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Read More Protect Data With On-the-Go Drive Encryption This past January, the health organization Kaiser Permanente reported a theft of an external hard drive from an em­­ployee's car. The hard drive contained data on about 15,500 Northern California patients, including their full names, medical record numbers, and, in some cases, gender, dates of birth, and other info on treatment and care received at Kaiser (but not patients' social security numbers or financial data). Read More One Man's Life on the Security D-List At Security B-Sides, infosec author Andrew Hay explains the four pillars for moving from the bottom of the IT security shop to a place of respect, and why getting to the A-list isn't all it's cracked up to be. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. Why 41 Percent of You Would Fail a PCI Audit Miscellaneous news bytes from the RSA 2010 press room: QSAs tell Ponemon Institute that 41 percent of companies would bomb their PCI security audit; hackers industrialize their sinister revolution and VeriSign opens a new compatibility lab. Read More Researchers find way to zap RSA security scheme Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and e-commerce servers. Read More Former NSA tech chief: I don't trust the cloud The former National Security Agency technical director told the RSA Conference he doesn't trust cloud services and bluntly admonished vendors for leaving software vulnerabilities unpatched sometimes for years. Read More Check Point puts VPN in USB stick Check Point has become the latest vendor to push the USB stick as the road warrior's best friend, announcing a way for business travellers to carry around their office desktop on a single drive. Read More
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