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	Data loss a mystery for many businesses Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate laptops are lost or stolen. Read More : ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Are iPhones riskier than Android, Blackberry & Nokia phones? Targeted cyberattacks test enterprise security controls South Park skewers high tech In cyberwar, who's in charge? Antenna Software buying specialist in mobile apps for finance, SharePoint users 'Cyber War' author: U.S. needs radical changes to protect against attacks Is the U.S. the nation most vulnerable to cyberattack? 1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm SaaS, Security and the Cloud: It's All About the Contract Tokenization eases merchant PCI compliance Apple iPad users offered 'antivirus' software Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams Botnets 'the Swiss Army knife of attack tools' Ruling suggests limits on employer's access to personal e-mail New cyber security threats noted in Blue Note annual report Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Are iPhones riskier than Android, Blackberry & Nokia phones? iPhones appear to pose greater security risks than Android, Blackberry and Nokia smart phones, but is this really the case? An nCircle survey says yes, security expert Charlie Miller says not necessarily, and Pwn2Own sponsor TippingPoint won't say. Read More Targeted cyberattacks test enterprise security controls Targeted cyberattacks of the sort that hit Google and more than 30 other tech firms earlier this year are testing enterprise security models in new ways and pose a more immediate threat to sensitive data than a full-fledged cyberwar. Read More South Park skewers high tech Facebook is just the latest high-tech South Park skewering: iPhone, Bill Gates, Star Trek, the Internet all get lampooned Read More In cyberwar, who's in charge? When the first salvos of cyberwar are fired against the United States, the responsibility to defend the country falls to the president who, aided by advisers from the broad spectrum of government agencies and also the private sector, must feel his way along an uncertain path to decide the appropriate response. Read More Antenna Software buying specialist in mobile apps for finance, SharePoint users Antenna Software, which offers products and services for building, rolling out and managing mobile applications, Thursday is announcing it has acquired a Boston-based company with expertise in financial and Microsoft SharePoint applications. Read More E-GUIDE: APC by Schneider Electric 5 Ways to Shrink a Data Center Most data centers can support an average density of 100 to 200 watts per sq. foot. The future of high-density computing – beyond 30 KW - will have to rely on water-based cooling, but is that cost effective? This expert guide discusses the latest energy technologies for today and the future. Read Now. 'Cyber War' author: U.S. needs radical changes to protect against attacks Ex-Presidential advisor Richard Clarke writes: "U.S. military is no more capable of operating without the Internet than Amazon.com would be." Read More Is the U.S. the nation most vulnerable to cyberattack? everal nations, most prominently Russia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea, are already assembling cyber armies and attack weapons that could be used to attack other nations. Given that the United States is heavily dependent on technology for everything from computer-based banking to supply-chain tracking and air-traffic control, it's particularly vulnerable to the denial-of-service attacks, electronic jamming, data destruction and software-based disinformation tricks likely in a cyberattack. Read More 1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm More than a year after doomsday reports suggested the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows. Read More SaaS, Security and the Cloud: It's All About the Contract Security practitioners have learned the hard way that contract negotiations are critical if their SaaS, cloud and security goals are to work. A report from CSO Perspectives and SaaScon 2010. Read More Tokenization eases merchant PCI compliance Today, it's expected that merchants accept electronic payments and that those payments are secure with no data leaks or breaches of any kind. But the reality is many merchants don't truly understand the vulnerabilities that electronic payments present. They may think they are secure when in fact they are at risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: ManageEngine Randy's Wife Was Right About OpManager Randy S. Hollaway was the Senior System Administrator and was looking for a network management software. His wife, had used ManageEngine network management solution – OpManager. On his wife's recommendation, Randy evaluated OpManager live on his network and was impressed by how comprehensive yet easy it was. Read More Apple iPad users offered 'antivirus' software Apple iPad users are being offered a security program to scan their new device for vulnerabilities and rogue software should such things emerge as threats. Read More Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social media at a Fortune 500 company. Read More Botnets 'the Swiss Army knife of attack tools' Hacker militias may be at the bottom of the cyberwar food chain, but when they want to hit a target, they can mobilize botnets that are already up and running, security experts say. Read More Ruling suggests limits on employer's access to personal e-mail Can employers read an employee's personal e-mail composed and sent via a corporate computer, and does the employer own that e-mail? Especially if it's an e-mail to a lawyer, which raises special questions of client-attorney privilege that invoke confidentiality? Read More New cyber security threats noted in Blue Note annual report A new report on consumer online behaviour and criminal activities on the Internet noted that new security threats have recently emerged, prompting the implementation of a mix of security solutions to protect unsuspecting victims. Read More Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly While vendors work to address enterprise concerns about cloud computing security, experts warn there's no easy fix. Meanwhile, cloud service outages and criminals operating in the cloud threaten enterprise acceptance of the utility computing model. Read More
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