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OAuth Is the New Hotness in Identity Management With Facebook Connect being abandoned in its favor, and a new draft specification before the IETF, OAuth is shaping up as the cornerstone of identity management for cloud-based applications and services. eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst P. J. Connolly looks at what's behind the seamless access to services on social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Armor Is Not Enough for Good IT Security The value of conventional password policies is doubtful; users will always be the weakest link in IT security. Perhaps it's better to add remediation to the existing arsenal of firewalls, strong passwords and VPNs, and admit that your security measures, no matter how closely they adhere to best practices, can be bypassed by a motivated intruder. Proofpoint Makes Encryption Easier Proofpoint's Protection Server operates either as a Web service with nothing to install on the client end or as a hardware appliance that can be installed on the customer's premises. OS of the Future: Built for Security Software vendors have been making their products more secure and have been providing tools and best-practice guidelines for application developers to improve security. Verizon Incident-Sharing Framework Brings Sanity to Security Checks The 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report offers insider knowledge based on forensic investigations of 90 confirmed breaches in 2008. Now anyone with an hour to spare can look over a beta version of the framework used to collect the data. IT managers and business executives alike can use the newly released Verizon Incident Sharing Framework to begin a security review with the goal of avoiding being one of the statistics in 2010.

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