Last month ISS discovered a similar flaw in Oracle Net8, leaving users of its hugely popular 7,8 and 8i databases open to external Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. A standard internet firewall should protect most companies from external attackers...
Many new laptops are being shipped with inbuilt WiFi cards which means your system may be remotely accessible without the protection of firewall. Install a personal firewall on all systems using WiFi (The wireless protocol).
The traditional perimeter has been the firewall. So why aren’t IT managers pushing for this basic perimeter? Enterprises will benefit if they are able to use a single VPN platform to provision either SSL or IPSec with common interfaces for...
In Tuesday's announcement, Cisco introduced two new hardware products: the Cisco 7301 Router and the Cisco VPN 3020 Concentrator. It also added support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for its firewall applications, and it added a feature...
C&W will continue to manage the communications infrastructure for GSL, including voice, VPN, fixed-to-mobile integration, managed data network, remote access, internet access and managed PBX services as well as additional security services such as...
Almost the same amount (22 per cent) believe staff installing peer-to-peer software, games or freeware for use at home poses no threat to the enterprise when that laptop come back within the security perimeter.