Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Symantec isn’t the only company to forecast improved enterprise IT spending based on quarterly results in the past few weeks; executives at EMC, IBM, and Intel all spoke positively about IT budgets rebounding in the coming months.
Pros and Cons of Managed Security Services
By Bob Violino, Editorial Director at Victory Business Communications
More organizations are using managed security services, where security functions such as vulnerability assessment and network firewall monitoring are offered to clients as a service. These services offer potential benefits to organizations that lack the internal security resources. They also present risks…
Richard Stiennon Explains Why Security Sells
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Both network vendors and PC vendors should wake up to the new reality that there is another layer of change on top of the ever increasing bandwidth, application, and storage requirements. A change in the threats.
Risk Exposure in Hyper-Extended Enterprises
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
RSA, the Security Division of EMC recently released several research reports that examine the far-reaching security implications of promising technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, social networking and mobile communications, and explore the pivotal business risks and rewards they represent to organizations worldwide.
Anti-Phishing with Two Factor Authentication
By John B. Frank, Strategist with HomeATM ePayment Solutions
According to research firm, Gartner, banks, online payment organizations and other financial institutions are bearing most of the financial cost of phishing attacks. (A survey of nearly 4,000 US consumers revealed a 40% increase in the number of phishing victims in 2008 over the year before to five million.) “The findings underline the fact that the war against phishing is far from over,” said Avivah Litan, analyst at Gartner. Yes, the very same Avivah Litan who says “never” enter your PIN on the Internet unless it’s hardware based.
Security Risks Accompany New Technologies
By John B. Frank, Marketing Strategist with HomeATM ePayment Solutions
RSA and IDG released two new research studies that examine the far-reaching security implications of promising technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, social networking and mobile communications, and explore the pivotal business risks and rewards they represent to organizations worldwide.
