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What is most likely to bring your systems down? A minor problem might be as bad as a natural disaster argues Illena Armstrong Gerhard Eschelbeck discovers that as malware becomes more sophisticated, your defenses must improve to prevent damage. What do the impending war in Iraq, the Venezuelan oil strike, the threats by North Korea to “go nuclear,” and the Bush Administration economic proposal all have in common? “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Many businesses have written off public key infrastructure (PKI) as a dead technology. How often have you played the ‘scruples game’ amongst your friends, to question how much they would they rob a bank for - £5 million, £10 million, £25 million? With the growth in volume and sophistication of internal and external threats, information security is one of the most critical issues facing companies today. A technology gap exists in businesses today between the "haves"--deep-pocket enterprises--and the "have nots"--businesses on a budget. Datamonitor has predicted enterprise spending on firewalls and VPNs will approach $6 billion in 2007, doubling last year's figures.

As any security administrator knows, the only thing as bad as not enough information is too much. Staying on top of the overwhelming flood of information from every device is a difficult job. Information comes in as events, alerts, notifications of changes or just status updates. Making sense of it all requires efficient correlation tools, like the Network Intelligence logging appliances.
Network Intelligence sent us the HA 2000, the smallest version of its enterprise-class product suite, fitting in between the EX series targeting SMEs, and the LS series for large environments. The system runs Windows 2000 Server in a 2U rack-mount chassis. The HA 2000 is licensed to handle a maximum of 2,000 events per second (EPS), from a maximum of 64 information sources. There are several larger versions available (chiefly a matter of licensing, although at 4,000 EPS the devices start shipping with more on-board disk and memory), up to 6,000 EPS, for monitoring up to 1,024 network devices. And they can be clustered, up to three units together for triple the throughput.

Hackers have hit a Colorado university’s servers for the third time in under two months. Perhaps the year's most dangerous and certainly most headlined worm hit the internet in August, shutting down a number of high-profile organisations. Windows XP can also be hit by the recent spate of Windows 2000 viruses, it has emerged. It took 34 years for radio to reach 50 million users. Television got to the same number of people in 13 years. The internet hit that 50-million-user mark in just four years. Hackers and crackers have hit back at the arrest of an allegedly reformed hacker by waging an internet war. Lloyds TSB has hit out at Britons who don’t secure their PCs after a new survey revealed the extent of computer viruses. 1.4 million credit card and 96,000 check transaction details have been stolen from a U.S. retailer DSW Shoe Warehouse. Mobile phones will be hit by a new outbreak of crippling viruses, according to a consultancy firm. Deloitte today added flames to the mobile-insecurity fire by reasserting the threat posed by the ever-increasing number of mobile devices. Steven Spielberg’s next big-budget epic had been hit by a website defacement. A Brazilian hacking team replaced the front page of the War of the Worlds promotional website with their own slogan “no fate, un-root”. Worms, phishing, patching holes… sound all too familiar? Ben Rothke takes a look back at the big threats that hit the industry in 2004