In Germany, the pressure will be on to amend laws that prevent companies from advertising certain promotions and discounts. Five specific Information Society initiatives - covering everything from copyright to content - will go before the European...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has outlined a series of new initiatives and investments aimed at shoring up the company's increasingly battered security reputation. But analyst Gartner has joined recent criticism of Microsoft's security record saying...
At a compliance event in London today, Debra Logan, research director at Gartner, admitted it is impossible to prevent the kind of scandal that saw trader Nick Leeson bring down his bank, but she said investment in things like automation and data...
But it added: "We believe, however, that minimising RFID technology and system vulnerabilities - to ensure that attackers cannot obtain confidential data by compromising systems - is equally important.
They need to have a rigorous patching regime as new vulnerabilities are found in VoIP systems every few days. Additional tools that will help networks in case of any attack are intrusion detection and prevention systems, which scan for rogue...
Tools exist to shore up those vulnerabilities, says Anthony Plewes. Companies need to decide what can be connected to the network and prevent unauthorised devices to connect. DLP tools incorporate a wide range of modules to protect sensitive data...