A report shows many organizations have limited or no knowledge of the systems to which their active and terminated employees actually have access.
Cyber-Ark's survey reveals that a significant number of IT staff use their IT administration rights to access privileged or confidential data.
A new survey of 17,000 IT security professionals by Cloakware should be cause for alarm for security administrators.
Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in different financial centers and found that half of them were either open -- unprotected -- or used Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/11/2009
It only took six months for Microsoft to break its own record for addressing the most vulnerabilities in a single patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/09/2009
June may prove to be a busy month for IT pros, with Microsoft planning to release 10 fixes in its next security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2009
Plus: Obama names fed ITSec chief; QuickTime, iTunes fixed; Twitter users targeted yet again.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2009
Windows 7's BitLocker to Go feature extends data protection to removable drives.
- By Joern Wettern
- 06/01/2009
Microsoft issued a security advisory on Friday describing a newly disclosed bug in Microsoft DirectShow that could enable remote code execution attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
President Barack Obama on Friday announced the creation of the position of a cybersecurity coordinator who will direct national cybersecurity policy from the White House.
- By William Jackson
- 05/29/2009
President Barack Obama will release the long-awaited report on U.S. cybersecurity policy on Friday, May 29.
- By William Jackson
- 05/28/2009
A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/27/2009
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/27/2009
Software security continues to trouble IT pros, who often have to do more with less in the current recession, according to two industry-sponsored studies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/26/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/26/2009
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
Adobe and Apple rolled out security updates on Tuesday on top of Microsoft's lone patch for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/14/2009