Security expert Wray said although most companies are aware of viruses, worms, Trojans and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, many IT departments have never heard of such threats as input validation attacks, SQL injection or reverse channel Trojans.
Last year, the company unveiled its Network Admission Control (NAC) program, a security architecture that combines virus scanning with network policing to keep attacks from entering the network in the first place.
Its researchers use the code to write simple programs for scanning and emulating executable files, and for working with complex threats such as self-mutating viruses, Symantec said. Symantec said its tools are able to identify more complex threats...
Mark Foulsham, head of IT at esure, said ISPs should look at the marketing advantages of selling the fact that they cleanse their networks of these security threats to customers. Internet service providers (ISPs) are failing to do enough to stem...
The choice is clear: either the IWF must adapt and grow or else we must conclude that it has passed its sell-by date. But in a world where terrorists use the internet, where organised crime is linked to virus threats, where identity theft is...
Day said: "In terms of what's the biggest threat on the LAN at the moment I think it is control of what comes into your network - recognising what are the assets people are plugging into your network and asking whether they should be there.
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