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VoIP cuts costs and streamlines communication for enterprises, but are the benefits worth the security risks? Dan Kaplan and Negar Salek investigate How can you be sure your security works unless someone tried to crack it - and failed? Rob Buckley delves into the world of penetration testing. VoIP cuts costs and streamlines communication for enterprises, but are the benefits worth the security risks? Dan Kaplan investigates. Microsoft appears to be taking security far more seriously with the successor to Windows XP. But has it done it right? Mark Mayne reports A need for a coherent response to threat led insurance company Aviva to create its group business protection director role. Ron Condon reports Are intrusion prevention systems worth the effort of managing them? Or can you get away with a good firewall? Rob Buckley investigates The Novartis security chief is delivering on his mission to create a compliant, globally managed risk system. Ron Condon reports Two years ago, the Jericho Forum set itself the task of persuading vendors to prepare for a ‘deperimeterised’ global security landscape. Jan Howells assesses its success so far There’s yet another IT security bandwagon onto which any number of vendors are jumping. And, whether companies refer to it as network access management (NAM), network access control (NAC), or network access protection (NAP), the main question is: Who has the real deal? A “distinct lack of leadership” on mobile security is leaving U.K. businesses open to potentially devastating levels of risk, new research has warned. Most of the industry regards compliance as annoying, at best, but Jan Babiak tells René Millman why this risks missing a great opportunity One day, you are the IT security pro for a tidy, small company with about 700 PCs on your mind. The next day, more than one thousand additional unique users plug into your system – each with the average 18-to-22-year-old’s collection of spyware and viruses stored on a range of PCs.

Outsourcing option

Unilever confirmed last month that it is discussing outsourcing parts of its finance, human resources and IT operations to Accenture and IBM. An outsourcing agreement would apply chiefly to Unilever's European staff.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called on IT security industry experts for help with a forthcoming workshop that aims to identify methods to simplify secure web browsing. When bad things happen to good networks — and no enterprise is completely immune from attacks on its IT infrastructure anymore — how the good guys fight back can make or break the company’s ability to survive the threat. Using the information supplied through your IDS and IPS in the right way could dramatically improve your incident response plans, discovers Jim Carr Former members of the Royal Air Force hold senior IT security roles at many important UK organisations. Ron Condon meets the ‘Rafia’ Your systems kick out a vast number of logs, but it’s getting harder to make sense of them. Jim Carr looks at the new face of aggregation: SIM Whether you have a SOX problem or a HIPAA ailment, it is becoming more tempting to enlist a SIM. But beware what you’re buying into. Vendors are heavily hyping their security incident management (SIM) wares as the cure-all for meeting regulatory compliance standards such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts (HIPAA). If anything, they’re half right. Chrisan Herrod, the first CSO at the Securities & Exchange Commission, took a battering from the recent GAO report. Here she gives us her side of the story. By John Sterlicchi, with additional reporting by Marcia Savage