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For information security directors at large corporations, the growing reliance on contractors is a major concern. Local and offshore programmers provide businesses a competitive edge, but they also increase security risks. A gap in security exits for applications that help enable collaboration among employees, such as intranet portals and content management systems, a recent study found. The Australian Taxation Office lost an unencrypted CD containing thousands of personal details – and waited three weeks to inform those affected of the loss. Secerno has warned banks to take tighter control over customer data. A recent U.S. Department of Justice survey indicates that the majority of American businesses have detected one or more cyberattacks. US engineers have developed software that can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform log-ins, digital signing and verification. Neville Isdell said that the breach “…underscores the responsibility we each have to be vigilant in protecting our trade secrets. Information is the lifeblood of the company.” They are endpoint management and compliance, identity management and usage policy enforcement. Counterfeit networking equipment could jeopardize the security of U.S. military and other government systems, according to an FBI PowerPoint presentation posted on a website covering "alternative” topics. Northrop Grumman has grown to a $30-billion-a-year company by designing and building some of the world's most sophisticated war-fighting tools, be it stealth bombers, airborne surveillance systems or nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist) have created fingerprint identification technology that meets the standardised accuracy criteria for federal identification cards.. Knowing who's on the LAN. Providing guest access. Limiting contractors. Controlling what users can do on the LAN. Segmenting the LAN. Documenting and auditing user activities. All the technology in the world won't help if your employees don't follow security policies, so how can you win them over? The theft of classified information by a contractor's former employee has forced the Los Alamos National Laboratory to implement a variety of tactical and strategic security policies commonly found in a private enterprise. An aggressive, non-stop campaign by China to penetrate key government and industry databases in the United States already has succeeded and the United States urgently needs to monitor all internet traffic to critical government and private-sector networks “to find the enemy within,” SANS Institute Director of Research Alan Paller told SCMagazineUS.com. The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks emanating from China and Russia on critical databases. The U.S. House of Representatives is unlikely to take up a tough identity theft law passed by the Senate last month before considering a broader measure proposed by the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a committee counsel has told SCMagazineUS.com. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is unique compared to other security standards, as PCI provides strong guidance as to how merchants can actually comply with its requirements. Full Disclosure is dead. Let me explain why. The information security world has changed, even if some don't see it or are unwilling to accept it. When news broke this week that Apple QuickTime contains a new and extremely dangerous flaw, it served as a perfect lead-in to today's unveiling of the latest SANS Top 20, which lists client-side vulnerabilities among the biggest threats facing end-users.