Latest security news.
Juniper revamps security gear, 05/09/05
Intrusion-detection added to current family of firewall/VPN devices.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-juniper.html?nl
Compliance, automation fueling interest, 05/09/05
While identity management has focused mostly on IT tools such as directories, single sign-on and password management, observers say businesses are starting to realize how important identity is becoming in risk management plans.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-digital-id-world.html?nl
CIOs voice cyberterrorism worries, 05/09/05
State CIOs say their No. 1 concern is cyberterrorism and that the federal government isn’t paying enough attention to it.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-nascio-side.html?nl
Symantec targets client management, 05/09/05
Symantec last week unveiled a suite of client management applications that the company says will converge management features, security capabilities and storage tools to help customers more easily maintain, secure and restore end-user desktops and other client devices.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050902-symantec.html?nl
Anti-virus firm joins spyware battle, 05/09/05
Anti-virus firm Eset last week announced it has added anti-spyware filtering to its NOD32 Version 2.5 software for helping users protect Windows desktops and servers, and a range of Lotus, Novell and Linux servers.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-eset.html?nl
Opinion: Proxying SSL certificates to Apache via IIS, 05/09/05
The Apache server has an SSL certificate from VeriSign installed. The IIS server has a self-signed SSL certificate. We want to make the SSL security alert from the self-signed certificate on the IIS server go away without having to buy another commercial SSL certificate. Can we drive all the SSL traffic through the Apache server to avoid the SSL security alerts?
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/050905internet.html?nl
Opinion: Betting on the future, 05/09/05
So how bad is the whole spyware thing going to get? Really bad. When I wrote earlier in the year about an Internet catastrophe, this is the kind of thing that could well make that prediction come true. But there is a positive side to this – we’re going to be pushed into taking action. Authenticated e-mail will become mandatory. Servers of all kinds will only talk over secure connections.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/050905backspin.html?nl
Missing backup tapes spur encryption at Time Warner, 05/06/05
Time Warner this week said it will “quickly” begin encrypting all data saved to backup tapes after 40 tapes with personal information on about 600,000 current and former employees were lost in transit to a storage facility.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050605-timewarner.html?nl
Newsletter: Array Networks aims latest SSL VPN box at sites with big connections, 05/05/05
Array Networks this week is wheeling out an SSL VPN gateway for heavily used sites with big connections to the Internet.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/vpn/2005/0502vpn2.html?nl
