Projects: Network Security

Mobile Stretches Network Security

As colleges and school districts face an onslaught of mobile devices, IT departments must provide ample network bandwidth while dealing with the security risks generated by those devices.

Securing Network Access Control

Credit First National Association deployed a next-generation NAC solution that would prevent rogue devices from penetrating its network.

Recapping the Hacker Security Conference Black Hat

The 2008 Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas was chock full of security research and vulnerability information provided by the brightest minds in the security community. Here is a recap of the highlights from this year's Black Hat security sessions.

Security Case: What Are Your Employees Doing at Work?

Washington Trust Bank couldn't tell whether workers were downloading confidential information to thumb drives. So, it installed software to monitor workstation data flow.

Computer Security: When Everybody Wants Network Access

At Mississippi's Corrections Department, more people were using remote computing devices. The agency's network manager had to find a way to secure their communications.

Security Q&A: Safeguarding AT&T's Network

AT&T's chief security officer discusses how an "immature discipline"—computer security—has to grow up quickly, and what network providers can and should do about it.

Security Testing: Taking Charge

Reinsurance firm Scottish Re wanted more control over penetration testing, so it took the work away from a consultant and brought the service in-house.

How To Engage a Security Services Firm

An outside consultant can bring fresh insights on a company's security practices. Make sure you establish ground rules first.

Computer Security: Stop Playing With Hackers

Players of K2 Network's web games were threatened by cyber thieves trying to steal their online assets. The company installed a firewall and probe software to put the bad guys out of action.

Q&A: 3 Ways to Take the Drama Out of Computer Security

The assistant chief information officer at the 45,000-member Screen Actor's Guild's benefits plan discusses the improtance of adding new encryption tools to fortify security.

How To Plug 5 Big Security Holes

It's what you don't know about the security problems of operating systems and web applications that can kill you. Here are five new technologies that may change your relationship with your data.

E-Mail Security: Filtering Garbage Out, Keeping Secrets In

Businesses are finding new ways to block toxic Net gunk while also stopping data leaks.

E-Mail Security Case: Sealing Cracks at Harvard Pilgrim

The HMO wanted to encrypt confidential e-mail messages, but some employees were not following the rules.

Security Q&A: How a Cancer Center Takes Care of Data

One of the nation's top cancer care facilities, M.D. Anderson, is now moving to a new electronic medical records system. But first it had to address issues of security and privacy.

Security Case: How To Survive a Bot Attack

When PCs froze and the network overloaded at a Seattle hospital, information-technology staffers isolated, then neutralized, a bot's corrosive code.

 

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