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SurfControl's CEO may be a relative newcomer to the infosec world, but she is already pursuing an aggressive growth policy for the security vendor, Paul Fisher reports. As businesses try to get to grips with an ever growing list of regulations, could the legislators actually be doing them a favour? I fought the law, and the law won - wise words indeed from The Clash, and the logic is indisputable. However, in the world of business compliance, not everything is black and white: what does your business need to comply with, and how? Will the process be a hindrance or a business boon? The mobile, wireless world in which we now live has created a shift in the focus of venture capital investments in security technology. Today's investors tend to target technology that directly protects people and information, a marked change from a few years ago when the focus was the protection of corporate computer systems as a whole. A backdoor trojan is using short message service (SMS) text messages to relay stolen information back to malicious users, according to one anti-virus vendor's research wing. With the next stage of the so-called Kama Sutra Worm set to affect about 700,000 infected PCs on Feb. 3, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has warned users to batten down the hatches. More than 500,000 PCs have been infected by the Nyxem worm, which is set to enter its next stage on Feb. 3. How can you be sure your security works unless someone tried to crack it - and failed? Rob Buckley delves into the world of penetration testing. The constant need for patch management is a pain, taking up precious time and resources. Is there a better way? Gary Flood investigates. Congress should make data breach legislation a priority. We were pleased to see that this unit’s web GUI was one of the few being tested that defaults to a secure HTTPS connection. There is also a fully featured console available through serial connection, although it has a blank default password. That can be set, but a lot of users might forget, leaving their systems vulnerable.

Most of the best ideas in IT security – indeed, security in general – have been around for a long time. One that is all too often forgotten is the concept of “least privilege”, or using the bare minimum level of access to get the job done.

BP’s Paul Dorey is the new head of the IISP, the industry’s fledgling professional institute. He explains to Ron Condon why he’s so excited Cisco unveiled the second stage of its Network Admission Control (NAC) initiative, porting software to its range of Catalyst switches and wireless products. In addition, three new partners were bought into the fold to add vulnerability scanning to the framework. The network security market is set to expand to $6 billion by the end of 2009, according to a newly released report from Infonetics Research. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee met today to discuss new legislation that would update cybercrime law to stay astride with current criminal activities. MIMEsweeper is designed to check email flowing in and out of an organization against a list of different parameters, such as virus, spam and any defined corporate policies. It has been around for many years now, and version 5.2 continues the pedigree. Kaspersky Lab announced last week that it is testing a beta version of new mobile anti-virus software for smart phones. When Microsoft released five security bulletins - three of which were deemed critical - as part of this week’s Patch Tuesday, the company inadvertently started another debate about when – or if - the computing giant should divert from its scheduled fix release dates. ID management is fast becoming essential to business, but deployment needs careful planning. René Millman reports Rolls-Royce’s Nick Bleech tells Ron Condon why, as business embraces collaborative and mobile working, new rules need to be applied