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- MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples
- I have to defend Microsoft on this...I have to defend Microsoft on this because Symantec is probably the [i]last[/i] company to be complaining.I can't tell you how many computers I've "fixed" simply by removing any and all Symantec/Norton products from a computer, then installing Avast or AVG.Symantec makes some of...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., heuristics, security, detection rate, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Does social media reward whining?
- The worm is turningIt's taken a while, but it's clear the social media world is waking up to the fact that companies using Twitter as a back-door customer service channel staffed by PR personnel isn't a sustainable practice.I think it's great that PR people I am one are using social...
- Tags: Public relations, Twitter Inc., social media
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Protect Data and Client Trust: An End-to-End Approach to Protecting Your Web Applications and Your Organization
- Every day, more and more business is conducted online creating new challenges for meeting Web application security and compliance. It's a hacker's dream and your security nightmare. Due to the dynamic nature and prevalence of these applications, criminals are increasingly targeting Web-based...
- Tags: Web Application, Application Security, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Security
- Webcasts 2009-09-16
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it wasPerception is Reality - Agile can Help the Enterprise!In my experience, the old adage, ?perception is reality? is the main driver of a lack of ?IT / Business alignment?. And most ?business? have a perception that IT does not deliver on time or...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Agile
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Pushing Enterprise Security Down the Network Stack
- Network security is typically reactive: Networks provide connectivity and subsequently alter this connectivity according to various security policies, as implemented in middle-boxes, or at higher layers. This approach gives rise to complicated interactions between protocols and systems that can cause incorrect behavior and slow response to attacks. This paper proposes...
- Tags: Enterprise Security, Network, Networking, Security
- White papers 2009-02-03
- MagicNET: The Human Immune System and Network Security System
- Most of the current security systems do not provide adequate level of protection against ever-increasing threats. The main reason for their failure is the use of point solutions to protect hosts and reactive approach against intrusions. The paper studied human immune system, which survives under dynamic changing conditions and provides...
- Tags: Network, Security, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. Deploys Trade Promotion Management in Less Than Five Months
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. GMCR wanted to move from a reactive, disparate trade management process to a more proactive, integrated approach to retain a leadership position in the highly competitive coffee industry and manage coffee and merchandise deals and promotions with insight into their overall impact on sales and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., Leadership, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- CmUML - A UML Based Framework for Formal Specification of Concurrent, Reactive Systems
- Complex software systems possess concurrent and reactive behaviors requiring precise specifications prior to development. Lamport's transition axiom method is a formal specification method which combines axiomatic and operational approaches. On the other hand Unified Modeling Language UML, a de facto industry standard visual language, lacks suitable constructs and semantics regarding...
- Tags: Specification, Semantics, Lamport, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Google to introduce warnings for potentially hackable sites
- Last week, Google's Patrick Chapman and Matt Cutts announced that they're experimenting with a new security feature aiming to alert webmasters on the potential for having their sites hacked due to the outdated version of their web applications, starting with Wordpress only : "Recently we've seen more websites get...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Webmaster, Web Application, Wordpress, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Blogging, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits
- In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Can IT spending shift from reactive to proactive?
- Can IT spending shift from reactive to proactive?Reactive to ProactiveWell it is like this:I have been in the IT field for roughly 25 years and most companies treat the IT Infrastructure worse than the mailroom. As an experienced IT Professional, the IT is one of or the very last to...
- Tags: Strategy, Usefulness, Large Corp., information technology, IT IS, IT-spending
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Facebook introducing new security warning feature
- With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook's security team has silently introduced a new "security warning feature" alerting its users on the potential maliciousness of the third-party site they are about to visit. Is the newly...
- Tags: Facebook, Security Warning, MySpace, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Reducing the Cost of Compliance: Sun Microsystems Change and Access Control
- Faced with escalating costs for achieving compliance with industry and government regulations, many organizations are struggling to find better ways to address their compliance requirements. Like many companies, Sun was finding that the high cost of its compliance program was continuing despite significant efforts to remediate compliance gaps. One of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Compliance, Access Control
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Secrets of a fresh beer
- According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, scientists in Venezuela have found a way to keep beer taste fresher for long times. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note simply titled 'Keeping beer fresher.' The researchers...
- Tags: Beer, Maillard, Wiki, Team Management, Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Online Communications, Management, Manufacturing, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Antivirus is 'completely wasted money': Cisco CSO
- Antivirus is 'completely wasted money': Cisco CSOBUYING antivirus is a waste of timeBut honestly; from what I've read, freeware antiviruses such as Clam, and Avast do as good a job or better than overpriced commerical ones you have to subscribe too.In the last 4 years I've been on Win2k, and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Viruses and worms, Black List, antivirus, security, Cisco Systems Inc., software, Using Virtual Machine, Stewart
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- A new kind of cognitive autonomous robots
- European computer scientists have developed a new kind of cognitive robots. In two articles, ICT Results describes how the researchers have combined classical rule-based artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks ANNs (links to part 1 and to part 2). This learning robot 'employs ANNs to manage the low-level functions based...
- Tags: Artificial Neural Network, AI, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- The state of IT risk management
- Symantec issued its second annual report on IT risk management. Key findings from "IT Risk Management Report" that surveyed 405 IT professionals include: IT professionals are adopting a more balanced, less security-centric view of IT riskâ€"more of them now see availability risk as critical or...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Professional, Risk Management, IT Risk Management, Strategy, Security, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Summer 2008 is just around the corner
- Well, your students are off-campus now or soon will be and any mid-year upgrades you're planning during the break have been scheduled. Chances are, you're not thinking about the next academic year just yet but by mid-January you should be -- especially if you work in University IT, where budget planning needs to...
- Tags: Lifecycle, Need, Data, Financial Accounting, Finance, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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