RSA has unveiled a group of products and partnerships designed to help companies share confidential documents. The company unveiled its Keon e-sign software at the annual RSA Conference in San Jose California.
The most notable of them, WS-Security, is a technology that is making its way into web services software, allowing businesses to send messages that have a digital signature to ensure that a document has not been altered during its transmission.
The toolkit implements a number of security-related specifications that were co-authored by Microsoft, including WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Addressing. However, the toolkit introduces a programming...
At the opposite end of the scale temporary staff have also long been identified as a source of potential breach and blunder, proving companies need to implement and enforce policies throughout their whole organisation.
Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, turned novelist, this week delivered the keynote at the RSA Conference Europe over in the Austrian capital and silicon.com was there to hear what she had to say.
Or document formats that are themselves a kind of encoding to make it hard to read them except in the program that made them. What about hash generating private keys, which would allow forgery and threaten the security infranstructure (especially...