IBM exec discusses security threats and challenges; IBM expands security audit and compliance software

Opinion
Jul 5, 20071 min

Latest IBM news.

Organized, financially driven online criminals a main corporate threat, IBM security exec says, 07/03/07: At IBM Internet Security System’s, the company’s primary security research organization is called X-Force. Kris Lamb, director of X-Force, says his group is charged with knowing where potential threats will arise and deliver product, services and education to customers about how to stay ahead of the risk. Recently Lamb discussed with Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie what he sees as the most critical challenges and opportunities facing enterprise IT security managers today.

IBM expands security audit and compliance software, 06/28/07: IBM Tivoli expands security audit and compliance software.

Multivendor identity systems can work together, demo shows, 06/28/07: User-centric identity may focus on consumers, but corporate users are finding that CardSpace, OpenID and other technologies could solve federation issues and attack privacy, access, management and other concerns.

BSA raises reward to $1 million for reports of piracy, 07/02/07: The Business Software Alliance has temporarily raised the reward that’s part of controversial program encouraging people to report software piracy from $200,000 to $1 million, the trade group announced Monday.