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Estee Lauder Revamps Security in Face of Regulatory Requirements
Estee Lauder uses NAC gear from StillSecure to address SOX, PCI issues company says.
CIO.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
African Officials Urge Use of IT for Disaster Management
African countries need to make better use of ICT in order to do a better job of managing both natural and man-made disasters, according to a cross section of political and technology officials speaking at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week.
CIO.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Georgia President's Web Site Falls Under DDOS Attack
The Web site for the president of Georgia was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries experiencing political friction with Russia.
CIO.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
NAC secures U.N. agency
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is using network access control at 11 regional offices around the world to keep potentially dangerous non-compliant machines from compromising the agency's core network in New York City.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
NAC complexity stymies deployments
Network access control promised a much-anticipated, multi-faceted set of tools that could check endpoints for compliance, fix machines that flunked, define and enforce user access rights, and monitor user activity to assure continued compliance.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Open source software a security risk, study claims
Open source software is a significant business risk for enterprises, according to a study published this week by security vendor Fortify and security consultant Larry Suto, which examined 11 open source software applications.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Kaspersky Lab's Malaysian Web site hacked
Russian security company Kaspersky Lab's Web site for Malaysia was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping sites, according to Zone-H, an organization that documents such attacks.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Who Pays?
What do you do when a network administrator goes bad? That's the question IT staffers for the city of San Francisco are facing this week. One of their own, a net admin named Terry Childs, was arrested for sabotaging the city government's new fiber backbone network (see story).
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
DBA Gets Jail Time for Data Thefts
A former database administrator at Certegy Check Services who admitted that he stole and then sold the personal data of about 8.5 million consumers was sentenced to 57 months in prison by a federal judge in Florida this month.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
When security staffers fail up
Think your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think again.
Network World  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?