Hospital bosses in Greater Manchester have tightened up IT security procedures after a Crewe estate agent found a new £30 memory stick contained confidential details of 13 cancer patients. Louis Oley, managing director at SecureWave, said the up to...
Can you imagine buying a house by contacting an estate agent, getting them to send you brochures, reviewing, making a choice and purchasing - all without a site visit? Somewhere along the line someone seems to have lost sight of the fact that no...
In early 2003, it acquired Okena, a small maker of intrusion prevention software for desktops, in a deal valued at $154m. Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a high rate of false positives, causing some non-threatening traffic to...
In fact, the critical "trust agent" software in the NAC architecture that sits on users' PCs and communicates with the Cisco policy server came from its acquisition in 2003 of Okena. Richard Palmer, vice-president in Cisco's Security Technology...
So, Williams said, the answers are the same: guard the IP PBX with a firewall, an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and other products just as how a server is protected. When combined with best practices for mobile endpoints, including disabling...
Intrusion prevention or detection systems were used by 23 per cent and VPNs, or virtual private networks, by 46 per cent. Other surveys have attempted to put a dollar amount on cyber security damages in the past but the FBI believes its estimate is...