Furthermore, there is now a wealth of supportive guidance to help customers deploy securely. It supports PKI, data encryption, identity management, system management, network security, audit, authentication and authorisation.
Despite advances in wireless technology, the security of a wireless network will never equal that of a wired network. In addition, the agency announced that even 802.11b wireless access with WEP encryption - widely touted as the secure replacement...
While both are noteworthy features, neither tackles the central issue of how to securely control connections from a remote IP address to a multitude of internal servers. Encryption: This uses an RC4 cipher, a stream cipher using a 56- or 128-bit key.
Not all the pieces are in place yet for people to be able to freely and securely tap into online data while on the move, said Mundie. He pitched BitLocker, a disk drive encryption feature in the higher-end version of Vista, as a way to lock down...
Other topics to hit the security headlines in 2007 included wi-fi piggybacking, encryption technology and calls for a standalone police unit to tackle the ever more sophisticated world of cyber crime.
Mick Gorrill, assistant commissioner at the ICO, added in a statement: "It is essential that before a company allows personal information to leave its premises on a laptop there are adequate security procedures in place to protect personal...
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