Network and Device Security
Having your company web site hacked or 'compromised' can be a costly experience for your organisation. There are immediate costs in responding to the compromise itself (and this includes the actual cost of recovery, as well as the loss of revenue during the outage), but the greater damage to your business may only become apparent over time – customers ceded to a competitor as a result of the loss of trust in your service may never return.
How critical is Active Directory and Group Policy to your business? Do you have a change management process for your Group Policy environment? How do you know when a change is made to a critical GP object and how do you validate it? In this webinar see how NetIQ Group Policy Administrator can provide true offline management of Group Policy, enabling delegated administration of policy settings, an approval workflow, and enhanced capabilities to plan, troubleshoot, review and report on GPOs across multiple trusted and/or un-trusted domains.
Do you have too many privileged accounts in your Active Directory? Ever wanted to effortlessly delegate permissions in a secure and efficient way? In this webinar see a live demonstration of NetIQ Directory Resource Administrator and learn how to improve the efficiency of administrating Active Directory by enabling the safe delegation of administrative capabilities, automation of complex or repetitive tasks, and employing robust, policy-based controls to assure the integrity of your AD environment.
Most Recent Network and Device Security
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which was first released in September 2006, outlines areas of security best practice when handling cardholder data. Many companies find compliance with this standard quite difficult. This very helpful article outlines different areas of compliance and also stresses the value of regular maintenance as a way of taking the sting out of compliance audits.
The changing data center environment spawns updated security precautions
As data centers grow in size and complexity, security issues become more critical than ever. The need for securing the data center, while always important, has become more significant as data centers have become more of an integral part of the day-to-day operations of companies, says Anthony Wanger, president and founder of i/o Data Centers, Scottsdale, Ariz. "As they've taken on a more critical daily role, the focus on data center assets has become more important."
As data centers grow in size and complexity, security issues become more critical than ever. The need for securing the data center, while always important, has become more significant as data centers have become more of an integral part of the day-to-day operations of companies, says Anthony Wanger, president and founder of i/o Data Centers, Scottsdale, Ariz. "As they've taken on a more critical daily role, the focus on data center assets has become more important."
Much can be achieved with creative collaboration. However, many companies are fearful of the security implications of operating in the Web 2.0 environment. This thought provoking article proposes that collaboration is nothing to be afraid of and that the benefits far outweigh the perceived risks.
In this thought provoking article Phil Kernick (Director of Technical Assurance for CQR Consulting) invites us to turn everything that we think we know about IT Security on its head. He reminds us that security threats are evolving together with technology and that clinging to the old fashioned notion of 'keeping the baddies out' could be very dangerous in the midst of the current trend towards distributed technology and information.
Strategies for mitigating security risks in SCADA and process control systems
As we turn the page on the year and set the course for 2009 there is little doubt that 2008 was one of the most challenging years on record for the global financial markets and the economy. The current economic downturn has had an impact on many of us from both a professional and personal standpoint.
As we turn the page on the year and set the course for 2009 there is little doubt that 2008 was one of the most challenging years on record for the global financial markets and the economy. The current economic downturn has had an impact on many of us from both a professional and personal standpoint.
As the communication between businesses and customers has become easier and more economical, new security threats are emerging. There are substantial threats with internet that exploit vulnerable infrastructures. Companies struggle to protect their valuable customer data and business information. However, unified communications offer safe voice networks since voice travels as data traffic in the same IP network. Hence in a unified communications solution, both voice and data are secured in a single network infrastructure. Unified communications solutions offer more security as compared to that of traditional PBX solutions, offering privacy, protection, confidence and control. Moreover, UC solutions are more configurable and economical.
After years of flying underneath the radar as hackers targeted large organisations, both corporate and government, small to medium businesses (SMBs) are feeling the cold winds of change blowing at their backs.
As this decade moves forward the arsenal available to the regular script-kiddy has begun to dry up and thin the ranks of wannabe hackers. The beginning of the millennium had the scene rich with resources to execute attacks on some of the most widely used Internet services including Apache (Web Server), SSH (Secure Remote Connectivity) and Sendmail (email) to name a few. Carlo Minassian from Earthwave gives us his predictions for IT security for the upcoming year.
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