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NetFlash: Security tools target inside jobs

Opinion
Apr 06, 20042 mins
Networking

These days, just as threatening as hackers breaking into your network is information leaking out. Unfortunately, every user with an e-mail account has the potential to send sensitive data outside the organization – and with new privacy laws coming into effect, such information leakage can have legal repercussions. Fortunately, there are lots of vendors emerging with software that can watch this sort of thing. Security tools target inside jobs http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405insideout.html?net

These days, just as threatening as hackers breaking into your network is information leaking out. Unfortunately, every user with an e-mail account has the potential to send sensitive data outside the organization – and with new privacy laws coming into effect, such information leakage can have legal repercussions. Fortunately, there are lots of vendors emerging with software that can watch this sort of thing.

Security tools target inside jobs

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405insideout.html?net

Who’s responsible for cybersecurity?

Can you legislate good software? Secure software? That issue is coming to a head as users are clearly fed up with security vulnerabilities and now looking to the federal government for some kind of regulation that would make systems more secure.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405cybersecurity.html?net

Nortel under SEC microscope

Nortel this week said the SEC has opened up a formal investigation of the company following restatements of financial results.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0405nortsec.html?net

Microsoft goes open source with WiX tool

Anyone who thought Microsoft’s settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0406microgoes.html?net

No compromise on WAPI as Intel’s Barrett heads to China

Intel stands by its decision to not support the security protocol that is at the heart of a trade dispute over China’s WLAN standard even as the company hopes for an end to the impasse, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said Monday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405nocompr.html?net

Today on Layer 8, Pulitzer finalist for editorial cartooning:

IBM’s s/360 turns 40; the dawn of the software vending machine; cell phones interfere with emergency services; and the start of our Weekly Caption Contest; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.

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