The two issues for corporates are encryption and authentication. Using data encryption in Windows 2000 can dramatically slow down your corporate network, according to Intel's EMEA marketing director, Andy Greenhalgh.
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.
Encryption, identity and access management systems and intrusion detection should be near the top of any corporate shopping list, according to leading security chiefs. One security chief from the banking industry said encryption has become...
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...