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Insecure ISP Support Is No Help at All

Hello, this is officer support of the ISP Police Department. You say youre worried that someone might try to steal your car? OK, Im...

Race Between Security Software Giants Tightens

SAN FRANCISCO—As the field vying for leadership in enterprise security software narrows, key players are putting their best efforts behind broad packages of tools...

Symantec-Veritas Merger to Meld Security, Backup

The merged Symantec Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. will become a leader in more than a half-dozen product categories. The post-merger Symantec will be...

IPS Devices Reach for High End

Two intrusion prevention system vendors unwrapped high-speed offerings this week, vying for customers at the high end of the IPS market.Sourcefire Inc., best known...

Anti-Spam Vendors Defend SMTP Gateway

Spam accounted for more than 80 percent of business e-mails last year, and the arms race against it continues this year. Of particular interest...

Demo: Security Rules

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Enterprises looking for emerging ways to secure their infrastructures and their assets were introduced to several new products at the Demo@15 conference here...

SAML 2.0 Provides Hope for Federated ID

The submission of the SAML 2.0 specification this month for consideration as an OASIS standard could bring fundamental changes to the way we federate...

New Era at CA Gets Under Way

After months of uncertainty sparked by corporate scandal, Computer Associates International Inc. earlier this month embarked on a new era, naming CEO-elect John Swainson...

Federated Single Sign-On Shifts GM into High Gear

When General Motors Corp.s employee portal forced workers to endure a traffic jam of user names and passwords, the company turned to federated single...

Should VeriSign Be the Name Police?

Im glad that Im still shocked when I find something innovative in its dishonesty, even though it seems to happen every other week in...