DEARBORN - InfraGard shared the excitement along with several hundred security professionals for the two-day SecureWorld conference held this year in Dearborn at the Ford Conference and Event Center. Opening keynoter Jason Witty, Vice President, Security Services, LaSalle Bank covered the State of the Internet. The State of the Internet, in a nutshell, is dangerous.
NEW YORK - It only takes a minute to establish if one is holding that magical key or just toying with a rusty screwdriver. Today, in order to have a commanding presence with universal access on e-commerce, domain names must act like very special golden keys as without it, the entire exercise of Internet-centric commerce
LANSING - Consumers Energy has told the Michigan Public Service Commission that its planned coal-fired plant near Bay City will cost $1.44 billion, up from $1.15 billion it estimated in May. The utility notified the commission of the cost increase in a filing on Sept. 21. A recent bill draft released by Rep. Frank Accavitti
DETROIT - You bet! Ask the casinos! But all puns aside, any time our elected officials don't make wise spending decisions, it comes down to the same results that each of us experience in our own personal budgets - the dollars that were squandered thoughtlessly are not available to make desired, or in some case
TORONTO, Ontario - Martin Carmichael doesn't strike an imposing figure. But the chief security officer for McAfee Inc. manages to loom large in the sense of his views on how integrated information and physical security ought to be sold to businesses and consumers. Carmichael is responsible for both IT security and physical security at McAfee,
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. companies are reporting that their average financial loss from cybercrime has doubled from $168,000 to $350,424 after a five-year run at lower reported losses, the Computer Security Institute reports in its 2007 Computer Crime and Security survey. Financial fraud, such as payments of fraudulent invoices, overtook virus attacks as the source
SAN JOSE, Ca. - People who install or use widgets are opening themselves up to major security vulnerabilities, according to Finjan's 2007 third quarter Web Security Trends Report. Widgets and gadgets are popular applications that are provided by either operating system manufacturers like Microsoft Vista out of the box or as small applications from the
SAN JOSE, Ca. - We've seen those Apple ads around "cancel or allow" applications that are trying to get onto your computer. This is based on a negative security model that tries to block malware known to be bad but there is a movement from some security vendors like Symantec and Secure Computing towards a
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Though he admits it will be a matter of years before businesses fully transform their people, processes, and technology to regard security risk in the same light as business risk, the challenge remains to be conquered nonetheless. So says Brian Kenyon, director, enterprise technical enablement for McAfee Inc., and a leading
REDMOND, Wa. - Is it possible for organizations to find the perfect balance of effective security but at less cost? It is a daunting task but between transforming people, processes, and technology, organizations should be demanding of IT vendors to provide more secure products, services and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). When combined, these forces would lower the