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Gartner analysts from around the world are arriving in Australia in preparation for next month’s Gartner Security Summit in Sydney.
Social network providers should enhance the security controls that are available to their users, analysts say. Hackers are losing the battle against security professionals, Gartner analysts have claimed. Societe Generale might have been able to prevent a year-long binge of fraudulent transactions by one of its mid-level traders simply by instituting stricter password controls and applying available software that tracks transactions to individual workstations, according to analysts. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will issue an emergency fix on Wednesday for a dangerous zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. New data indicates that 98 out of 100 computer users are running at least one unpatched program. The recent rash of high profile security breaches, data loss incidents and associated fraud highlights the fact that the security industry is failing to meet the threats. The information security sector faces a mixed financial picture in 2008 with the pattern of M&A continuing but IPO activity less certain. That was the verdict of two leading financial analysts at the RSA Conference on Tuesday. The recent closing of Lockdown Networks, one of the early entrants in the crowded network access control (NAC) marketplace, should not come as a shock to anyone, according to analysts. A web-hosting firm that apparently sent out more than 75 percent of worldwide spam has been knocked offline. Innovation in email security technologies will not stagnate as a result of Symantec’s acquisition of MessageLabs, the vendor has claimed. The Blue Coat Systems CEO gazed into the dotcom abyss and survived. He thinks he has the measure of the downturn. Paul Fisher reports In the lead up to next month’s conference, Gartner’s local security analyst reveals data security and cloud computing will be hot topics at this year’s Security Summit. A new and previously unknown exploit toolkit exclusively targets Adobe's PDF format.
As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. SC US handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year. The final report outlining the amendments to Australia’s Privacy Act will be released on August 11, possbily ending almost two years of speculation surrounding the inclusion of Australia’s inaugural mandatory data breach disclosure laws. The RSA conference in April marked one year almost to the day since Dave DeWalt left EMC and took over the reins as CEO of McAfee. IT professionals are gearing up for more security headaches from the Apple's latest smart phone. Russian-based AV specialist Kaspersky Lab has been enjoying some significant wins in North America. SC caught up with CEO Eugene Kaspersky between meetings.