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A recessionary funk is in the air, and if experience is any guide, IT, and consequently IT security, will be one of the first places CFOs and CEOs will look to slash budgets.
Upgraded Informix can cut data management cost by a third, claims IBM An email published on a blog knocked US$4 billion off Apple's stock market valuation on Friday before it was exposed as a hoax. It may already be a cliché, but the credit crunch is forcing all types of businesses to review their costs and look at how they can reduce overheads. Managing firewall rule sets and policies is a complex and messy business. Simply following a few best practices can go a long way to simplify your life, cut costs, and improve security. Although the "direct" costs of worldwide malware attacks have declined for three years in a row, "indirect" costs have continued to rise, a new report from market research firm Computer Economics indicates. Hearing news about yet another lost or stolen laptop and exposure of personal information is almost like having seen too many horror flicks. Shock has shifted to disbelief - plus numb outrage at the apparent inability of corporations and government to protect our private personal data. Strong authentication has improved dramatically since its earliest days. And now more than ever, that comes as good news for consumers. As enterprises have become more complex, there has been a corresponding rise in the identities associated with any one individual, said Jackson Shaw, Quest Software. Looking for the board to invest in your security project? Learn to speak their language before you pitch, suggest Jessica Twentyman Enterprises still seem to have turned a blind eye to the vulnerability that exists when information, in document and spreadsheet form, leaves the company via email and laptops. Failing to protect corporate data opens the corporate purse with no guarantee that it will ever be closed again. Unitrends CEO Duncan McPherson looks at how encryption has become an increasingly important technology for businesses. Unitrends CEO Duncan McPherson looks at how encryption has become an increasingly important technology for businesses. New surveys and reports discuss trends for 2009 and conclude that attacks will escalate in number and variety, outsourcing will represent the biggest threat, and attacks on databases will continue. The bitter reality of tough times can be made more sour by bad relations with the employees who can do real damage. The Devil makes work for idle hands, according to Kaspersky Lab. Warnings should have been flagged up to avoid the transfer of unencrypted .data Businesses value business continuity as three times more important than IT, according to research from Sophos. Free anti-virus provider AVG Technologies claims that Microsoft is ‘clearly’ following its lead in the security market but that it will face many challenges pursuing a free model, including a severe reseller backlash.