Significant changes include new legal protection for digital watermarks, copy protection systems and other technological measures used to protect copyright material online. Under Article 6 of the Directive, the UK and other member states of the EU...
The threat of impending legal action is encouraging companies to open up their wallets and spend money on security software that will ensure they are compliant with new legislation, according to attendees at the Infosecurity show in London.
Specifically NAP determines whether a networked client machine is compliant with IT-defined network access policies when they try to connect. The Network Access Protection (NAP) technology will detect the "health state" of a PC or laptop attempting...
Zombie networks are made up of thousands of virus-infected computers typically controlled by hackers for illegal activity, such as spamming. We deliberately tried to avoid costing them a lot so some of the measures we suggest are [cheap] to implement.
European businesses are still failing to effectively implement security measures across their organisation and are adopting a "lacklustre approach" to the integrity of the data and systems, according to analysts IDC.
He said: "The big companies are the companies most affected because they have to be compliant in Japan, in the UK and in the US in 40 different ways so the cost of compliance globally is rising. Dunkelberger said there should be 'safe harbours...