Dennis Fisher

Symantec Corp. last week unveiled a sweeping new security architecture as well as a new set of technologies, which are designed to correlate and filter data gleaned from dozens of sources, including competitors products. The Symantec Security Management System comprises three components: Event Managers, Incident Manager and Symantec ESM. Together, they will simplify administration and […]

A new worm purporting to contain a patch to defend against MyDoom is attacking Windows machines throughout Europe and parts of North America. Sober.D appeared last week and began spreading in Germany and the United Kingdom. The worm arrives in an e-mail message with a subject line of “Microsoft Alert: Please Read!” and carries a […]

A new worm that attacks a popular Microsoft Corp. database product is spreading rapidly on the Internet and is showing no signs of slowing down, security experts say. The worm began spreading Monday afternoon and is attacking servers running any version of Microsofts SQL Server database software, according to officials at SecurityFocus, a provider of […]

While many of the security concerns IT managers have about Web services have centered on access and identity management, another issue is becoming just as common: Web services vulnerability. To address the issue, two startups, SPI Dynamics Inc. and Forum Systems Inc., this week will introduce products that monitor and filter XML Web services traffic […]

There was a palpable sense of anxiety among attendees and exhibitors at the RSA Conference earlier this month, and not just because the show was in the fun-free zone that is San Jose, Calif., instead of San Francisco this year. The real source of the concerns was Microsoft, a company that has worried security experts […]

The term “software security” usually conjures images of aftermarket measures like intrusion detection, anti-virus and firewalls. Gary McGraw is on a mission to change that. What developers should be thinking about is writing more secure and reliable code and including basic security measures in their applications, not relying on customers to lock them down once […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The folks running the annual RSA Conference here this week will tell you that the show is bigger than ever and security is at the top of every CIOs list of concerns. And while all of that may well be true, if heavyweights such as Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems and Microsoft have their […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Scott McNealy has seen the future of the security industry and its not pretty, particularly for security vendors. McNealy, the chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, said in his keynote speech at the RSA Conference here on Feb. 14 that without security technology based on open standards that is built into software and […]

In my five years covering security for eWEEK, I was privileged to meet and get to know some of the brightest and most dynamic people in the industry, many of whom helped create and define the security community as we know it today. So when I got an e-mail from the folks running the RSA […]

SAN JOSE—The federal government has made “tremendous progress” in improving its information-gathering and operational capabilities and is working hard to make the private sector a full partner in its security efforts, according to a senior administration security official. Andy Purdy, the acting director of the NCSD (National Cyber Security Division) of the Department of Homeland […]