The security imperative
Leslie Lambert, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to India with a few souvenirs and a whole new set of IT security priorities. In 2009, projects like server security, metrics, application security and Web security will likely take a back seat to new data-protection measures and deeper enhancement of user-access and identity management systems. "Those are the big hitters now," she says.
Novell, Sun, Oracle crank out identity and access wares
Novell, Sun and Oracle Monday have announced updates to their identity-management platforms that focus on monitoring access controls and strengthening authentication.
Why technology isn't the answer to better security
In this, CIO's sixth year of conducting the "Global State of Information Security" survey with PricewaterhouseCoopers, they got an earful about the challenges, worries and wins in security technology, process and personnel.
Survey: IT staff would steal secrets if laid off
Cyber-Ark's annual 'Trust, Security & Passwords' finds that a whopping 88% of IT administrators would take corporate secrets if they were suddenly laid off. The survey also found that one third of IT staff admitted to snooping around the network, looking at highly confidential information, such as salary details and people's personal emails.
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