Latest security news.
President’s task force to unveil ID theft plan, 04/20/07Click here for more.
The federal government will release its plan to combat identity theft in the U.S. on Monday.
U.S. Army team wants second chance at hacker contest, 04/24/07Click here for more.
A team of U.S. Army hackers will attend the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur later this year, seeking redemption after falling short at a hacker competition in Dubai earlier this month, the conference organizer said Tuesday.
From Cisco Subnet: AUTHOR EXPERT BLOG: Security fails?Why do we think that our networks are any different from general society? Why do we try to simulate our networks when all we have to do is look out the window? Click here for more.NetForensics tackles Web data, log management, 04/23/07click here for more.
Security information management vendor netForensics will make available two stand-alone products designed to help network managers monitor Web and database applications and more efficiently collect log data for compliance and auditing purposes.
AlterPoint looks beyond configuration management, 04/23/07Click here for more.
AlterPoint this week will release an expanded product suite that builds upon the company’s network change and configuration management software to provide business analytics, compliance management and protection against security threats.
CA unfurls product-integration road map, 04/23/07Click here for more.
CA this week laid out its plans to further unify and simplify its extensive product portfolio, homing in on governance, management and security technologies that would help customers optimize their businesses.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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