What's the difference between a PC sitting on a desktop at company headquarters dedicated to work and one on a kitchen countertop that an employee occasionally uses for work - when family members aren't e-mailing friends, paying bills, researching school projects or playing games on it? Nothing, according to a growing number of enterprise security managers.
Internet Security Systems is readying technology it says could benefit companies fed up with current patch management techniques.
Start-up 14 South Networks - an IBM spinoff - next week is scheduled to debut a blade that slides into PCI-based servers and provides firewall and VPN protection based on Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. technology.
Network Associates has laid out plans to move into new areas, from spam control to intrusion prevention, as well as to augment its antivirus, help desk and protocol analysis products.
Trend Micro has licensed Postini's antispam technology to use in the Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service, software that can run on Solaris, Windows or Linux or in the form of an integrated hardware/software appliance available through reseller Nokia.
Secure Computing Corp. this week plans to unveil a line of firewalls that combines the best features of two separate lines and at the high end doubles to 1 million the maximum number of simultaneous connections supported vs. earlier versions.
Gilian Technologies Inc. said it has upgraded its G-Server Web security appliance by offering more options to managers on how G-Server can help them cope with possible Web-defacement problems.
Tripwire Inc. has broadened the number of network devices it can protect with its data-integrity software for preventing tampering of configuration settings in firewalls, switches and routers. The latest version of the product, Tripwire for Network Devices 2.5, also changes the way the software does reporting and alerting on what it monitors.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has issued a memorandum that prohibits the use of many types of wireless technologies in the Pentagon and much of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force until the military has developed a wireless security strategy, which it expects to do with assistance from the National Security Agency.
The Slapper worm identified late last week is slowly but surely infecting thousands of vulnerable Linux Apache Web servers across the Internet, according to security firms monitoring its progress.
Lucent Technologies Inc. this week announced two new models of "carrier-class" firewall/VPN equipment aimed for use in perimeter defense by ISPs, telecom companies as well as large enterprises.
ReefEdge Inc. this week takes the wraps off the latest version of its wireless LAN (WLAN) security gateway that features a way to help network executives enforce bandwidth and application use on WLAN access point.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Symantec firewall products that would let a knowledgeable attacker hijack any connection to Symantec's software-based or appliance-based firewalls, thereby potentially gaining unauthorized access to internal corporate resources.
In his keynote address at an information technology auditing conference here, Howard Schmidt, President Bush's advisor on cyber-security, predicted that networks operated in the U.S. and abroad are likely to be brought down by catastrophic events unless security greatly improves.
Telus Corp., the second largest telecomunications carrier in Canada, said it is deploying Arbor Networks Inc.'s denial-of-service product Peakflow DoS to protect its Internet backbone from attacks on Telus and its customers.