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More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week. ID management is fast becoming essential to business, but deployment needs careful planning. René Millman reports An email purporting to contain proof that the recently deceased Yugoslav permier Slobodan Milosevic was murdered is being used to spread a malicious trojan, security watchers warned. When truth is stranger than fiction — as it often is in enterprise IT departments — managing technology assets securely can require a powerful imagination. Indeed, how IT departments cope with issues such as the obsoleting of hard drives and eliminating so-called “double-campers ” from their resources might well determine whether or not they can claim their IT assets are truly secure. In the last few months, it has become nearly impossible to read a magazine or watch television without coming across a story about identity theft. Identity theft is causing a significant amount of angst among consumers and businesses alike. 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

Policy Server appeared with the release of Acrobat 7 earlier this year. It builds substantially on the encryption and password security of past editions of Acrobat and provides control over how Acrobat PDF format documents are accessed.

Configuring the security settings on Windows servers, desktops and notebooks is an overly complex chore. Ensuring that the users do not reset any of the settings just adds to the headache. Policy Commander automates this task using predetermined policies.

The problem with most security companies is they are very product driven - you name your security problem, and they can sell you a product to fix it. Whilst it's always tempting to think that you can fix a problem by buying something from a catalogue, the reality is often very different. The trick is to acknowledge the danger and plan for the inevitable, as former White House advisor Richard Clarke tells Illena Armstrong Fear of bad publicity and brand depreciation is allowing criminals to get away with cyber crime, it has been revealed.

No security professional in their right mind would consider embarking on installing wireless access points (APs) in the enterprise without making sure they had some form of protection.

Creating a restore point for machines running Windows has be a feature since Windows ME. It has been developed with the advent of Windows 2000 and XP. Basically it creates a "snapshot" of the system and then uses that image to roll back to in case anything should go wrong. Fine in theory, but something rarely used in practice.

That aside, having a restore point is something of some worth and this product takes the concept a lot further. Recovery Manager is a networked version of the same thing but with a few more bells and whistles attached.

Fighting extortion, paedophilia and identity theft is all in a day’s work for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Dan Ilett talks to its head, Len Hynds. Last October, many of us were shocked to read in newspapers that Procter & Gamble, a leading Fortune 500 firm, settled a dispute with European based Unilever over accusations of blatant corporate espionage - better known as economic warfare. Have you ever noticed the way in which new security solutions seem to appear as an appendage to an already recognized requirement of the IT department’s security strategy? Companies invest millions of dollars into public key infrastructure (PKI) products and services; yet demonstrating a return on that investment can prove difficult. Biometrics is a security approach that offers great promise, but also presents users and implementers with a number of practical problems.