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Co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro, Eva Chen discusses a wide range of subjects touched on financials, industry moves and trends, and the opportunities provided by the emerging markets of India and China. 2008 will usher in more security issues whose challenges can only be met by an array of security solutions. Now is the time to start thinking about your 2008 New Year's security resolutions. SC US handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year. The widespread dissemination of information and processing power has created a constantly evolving security dilemma: how to create and provide access to secure networks. Yet another politician has suggested that blocking the web can save us from terrorists. If only life was that simple. IT security teams across the globe must be getting used to requests to ban employee access to certain websites. The newest generation of employees connects with friends on Facebook and shares YouTube videos on lunch breaks or throughout the working day. The screaming headlines have been running for years. Whether they're in press releases about cybercrime exceeding international drug profits or the billions of dollars lost to breach disclosures or videos highlighting the meltdown of power generators due to a myriad of vulnerabilities, the anti-malware industry has long relied on fear to move their products. AJAX, Web 2.0 security

No, you did not miss the memo or a software upgrade notice. Yet you’ve already arrived at Web 2.0. The “upgrade” from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful and interesting for consumers and the business community. Born out of the need to protect the country, the Israeli infosec industry is emerging as a global leader. Sourcefire’s founder and CTO Martin Roesch speaks to SC Magazine about the open-source security vendor’s expansion into the Australian market and the company's future plans. Controlling risk on a large network can be a daunting task, which is why it is no surprise that there are a maze of solutions for the problem, albeit with extremely divergent approaches and underlying philosophies. The 'Italian Job' attack was the first large scale use of a Web-based attack, and it was duplicated only a few days later.
The new scoring system promises to make it easier for security managers and the IT industry to better measure the real-world risks associated with software flaws. As a Network or Systems Administrator, you must feel lately that you're between a rock and a hard place. Everyone loves milestone birthdays and this year - depending on who you believe - web access management (WAM) turns ten. Or 11. Or maybe it's 12. Kids grow up so fast. Knowing who's on the LAN. Providing guest access. Limiting contractors. Controlling what users can do on the LAN. Segmenting the LAN. Documenting and auditing user activities. A bit of knowledge and research means you can get those coveted tickets while everyone else is hitting "refresh". The idea that you can stop consumers copying electronic media doesn't hold water. But people will still try. ‘Security by obscurity’ seems to be a popular Australian fallacy.