MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Research sponsored by Symantec has found that while 91 percent of IT organizations carry out full testing of their disaster recovery plans, almost half of those tests fail. The "Symantec Disaster Recovery Research 2007" report was based on a survey of 1,088 IT professionals in large organizations, conducted by Dynamic Markets
PALO ALTO, Ca. - To help companies better manage and consolidate key management for encrypted devices deployed in enterprise and mid-sized businesses, Hewlett-Packard announced the availability of the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager. Secure Key Manager is a centralized, hardened security appliance that helps data center managers improve privacy compliance and reduce the risk of
BOULDER, Co. - The new report about protecting smaller businesses' from security threats from its growing mobile workforce predicts a perfect storm is building in the IT security world. With companies growing and adding more remote and mobile workers, IT departments are finding it difficult to keep pace in staffing; while, at the same time,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the open-source model for the platform, now known as Android, produce secure code? CNET News.Com asked. Will phones based on Android, dubbed "Gphones" by many,
SOUTHFIELD ? Security engineer Tim Heagarty of SecureWorks will discuss successful security monitoring in large environments at the Nov. 15 Motor City ISSA meeting at the Southfield Town Center. Deploying the right security technology in the right places is tricky enough - building the infrastructure to support that technology and get the most out of
BATTLE CREEK - The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium and Battle Creek Unlimited will announce Nov. 13 a key partnership to make investments and support the homeland security industry. This partnership has support from statewide leaders who will participate in a news conference next Tuesday at 11:45 am at the Battle Creek Unlimited Office. Those leaders
WASHINGTON DC ? Thousands of people attended Computer Security Institute 2007 this week in the nation?s capital where more than 100 educational sessions and seminars on such topics as Risks & Metrics, Rising Threats on the Web, and Incident Response were explored. Walsh College IAC Director Nan Poulios, who attended the event, said she presented
GRAND RAPIDS - James Placer CCSE, CCSP, will examine the true cost of a data breach Nov. 16 at the next meeting of The Right Place Program's Fourth Friday networking event. The recent changes in state and federal legislation have pushed the data retention and notification requirements to all companies and individuals with significant punitive
TROY - Under the new leadership of Jennifer Bowden, the Southeast Michigan Information Security Regional Skills Alliance is gearing up with several new initiatives to ensure that Southeast Michigan has a trained workforce in information security. A major component of the MiRSA will now be to examine information security and how it affects the everyday
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What a McAfee security expert calls a "nasty" piece of malware, Puper, has hit Apple Macintosh computers with a thud. "This is the first real malware that we have seen in the Mac," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. "It is written by the same group that