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A recent survey of 100 IT managers and CIOs from the financial services, health care, retail, manufacturing and government business sectors shows that despite a torrent of bad press on data-security breaches involving FTP (file-transfer protocol), its use is prevalent and growing. New privacy laws have spread across the US and could be enforced in Australia With the looming threats of publicly exposed personal data breaches, mishandled confidential partner information and lost intellectual property assets, an increasing number of enterprises are investigating options for securing data stored on both tape- and disk-based media. Sophos has completed its acquisition of German-based data security and encryption vendor Utimaco Safeware. Personal data at another college has been exposed, allowing potential hackers to gain access to student information. Microsoft has issued a security advisory in response to reports that cybercriminals are using Word to exploit a vulnerability in the Jet Database Engine. Authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man in Greece they said hacked into computer systems of France's Dassault Group for more than five years, stole sensitive weapons technology data, and sold it to a variety of countries. More and more businesses are moving towards offering their products and services in an Internet-based environment and consumers will typically use a credit or debit card for e-commerce transactions. Security Event Management (SEM) vendors often talk about scalability when addressing the degree to which their products can accommodate growth in a customer's increasing network and/or security requirements. Data security solution provider, Sophos, intends to make a cash offer for shares in Utimaco Safeware to strengthen its leadership in the IT market. A Chilean hacker posted sensitive information about six million of his compatriots on the Internet, apparently in an act of protest against the government’s lax data security. Technical innovations, coupled with regulations, more sophisticated attacks and gaps between technology deployed and the knowledge of the users continue to grow larger, Art Coveillo Jr., president of RSA, said in his keynote address at the RSA Conference. A strong feature set makes McAfee’s Security Internet Gateway (SIG) a heavy hitter in any organisation’s architecture. The SIG provides anti-virus scanning against all protocols, while anti-spyware scanning blocks potentially harmful spyware, cookies and adware from getting on to the network. To protect against spam the SIG uses an engine consisting of anti-spam, anti-phishing rule sets, permit-or-deny lists and a spam-learning feature. The SIG enforces policy and compliance issues regarding out-going data transmission as well as some forms of data leakage. This appliance is easily configurable by IT staff and, once configured, requires minimal administrator intervention. There has been a steady increase in corporate litigation over the past decade, and those legal proceedings are having an unforeseen impact on IT managers. This trend has been accelerated by the recent changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Information security experts have given their overall thumbs-up to the ALRC’s mandatory data breach disclosure recommendations, but admit the course of action needs fine-tuning.
As the Payment Card Industry's data security regulation begins to bite, Barry Mansfield examines its aims and obligations. Yes another data loss disaster for the government to face Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are "treading water" when it comes to data security and privacy, new research warns.. Will the loss of two CD-roms make the government overhaul its security procedures? For decades we have fussed around with how we describe our profession. It started with “data security,” evolved to “computer security,” and then took off in several directions.