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The market for wireless local area network (WLAN) security technologies is growing "phenomenally", but vendors are struggling to keep up with the fast-moving nature of WLAN security threats, industry experts have warned. BAWAG-PSK, the fourth-largest bank in Austria, has conducted a major network upgrade in a bid to boost IT security in the face of "unprecedented threats" and to meet the regulatory requirements of the forthcoming Basel II Accord. As security threats increase in quantity and complexity, assuring business continuity means that corporations need to aggressively and proactively protect the entire network infrastructure. While users are basking in the delights of the latest powerful communication tool, employers are likely to pay the price unless they implement strong policies that will help avoid any major threats, as Ron Condon reports Enterprise IT managers don't view spyware or instant messaging as major security threats, according to a survey released Tuesday. Threats to instant-messaging systems dropped 33 percent last month, according to Akonix Systems, a supplier of IM security products. The term ‘blended threats’ has become synonymous with viruses in the last year.

Proventia G Series is a new range of turnkey intrusion prevention appliances from ISS. They are designed to proactively block malicious attacks from entering the network, including denial-of-service (DoS), intrusions and malicious code, backdoors and hybrid threats like MS Blaster or SQL Slammer. Proventia G Series blocks attacks in real-time, minimizing the need for active administrator involvement in most security events.

Some observers believe threats to corporate networks could be just a memory in the not-too-distant future, reports John Sterlicchi. The key is companies wanting to stay secure and making use of the appropriate tools Emerging threats such as phishing and spyware pose hazards to federal IT systems and more needs to be done to protect them, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office. Organizations know they must protect themselves from the mysterious enemy that is a ‘hacker’ and viruses such as LoveLetter, but often there is a misguided belief that these external threats are the main risks to businesses. The CIA tracked down and arrested two Russian students within days of them making terrorist threats on the internet. The threats and problems posed by email in large and complex organizations are of a different type and scale of magnitude from the email problems that such organizations first solved with an email ‘point product’ some years previously. Risk management security firm TruSecure has released a proactive security product that prioritises security threats. While companies understand that they need to protect themselves and their employees against content security threats (such as the circulation of inappropriate material, litigation, spam, loss or corruption of data, viruses and malicious code), they also need to consider how email and web security can boost productivity. In the first part of this article (http://www.infosecnews.com/opinion/2002/01/30_03.htm), we identified the potential threats that aim to put your company in financial ruin and discussed who are the likely terrorists in economic warfare. When you think of computer crime, you immediately think of Internet fraud, hacking, viruses or other external threats to an organization. To help companies tackle threats inside their networks, Check Point has introduced what it is calling an internal security gateway. InterSpect offers network zone segmentation, worm and pre-emptive attack protections, LAN protocol security and more. Mass-mailer viruses tapered off in the first quarter of this year but mobile viruses, phishing attacks, and exploits of software vulnerabilities emerged as top threats, according to a report by McAfee's AVERT research unit.