INFORMATION
Technofile: Loss Prevention
08/15/2007 - Thirteen percent of corporate PCs have had unauthorized USB devices attached to them, creating the risk for data loss and malware to enter the corporate system.
Technofile: Loss Prevention
08/15/2007 - One-third of IT professionals believe that a major data breach could put their company out of business.
Technofile: Loss Prevention
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Percentage of identity theft breaches stemming from the theft or loss of a computer or storage medium, such as a USB memorykey, according to a recent Symantec report.
Technofile: Loss Prevention
08/15/2007 - A one-stop site for testing your PC's speed and security.
Technofile: Loss Prevention
08/15/2007 - Growth in "zero-day" attacks.
Technofile: International
08/15/2007 - The need to focus on security during negotiations with outsource contractors.
Technofile: IT Security
08/13/2007 - In order to ensure that your PC is protected from malware, it helps to run a few tests. Auditmypc.com offers just that: a handful of free, relatively quick self-assessments. Options include testing the strength of your firewall and your protection against pop-ups.
Technofile: IT Security
08/13/2007 - About ten percent of Web pages contain malicious code, according to a Google study.
Technofile: IT Security
08/13/2007 - Thirteen percent of corporate PCs have had unauthorized USB devices attached to them, creating the risk for data loss and malware to enter the corporate system.
Technofile: Proprietary Information Protection
08/13/2007 - One-third of IT professionals believe that a major data breach could put their company out of business.
Technofile: IT Security
08/13/2007 - Zero-day attacks - the name given to exploits of vulnerabilities for which no patch is available - are the bête noires of IT security. Unfortunately, discoveries of not-yet-patchable vulnerabilities are on the rise, raising the specter of more zero-day exploits. Learn more about zero-day attacks and what you can do to combat them here.
Technofile: IT Security
08/13/2007 - As a growing number of U.S. companies outsource software creation and data-handling functions to service providers located in other countries, the issue of data protection has gained prominence. One such problem is that 'backdoors' could be inserted in code for later use and that personal financial data could be stolen.
Technofile: Government Reports (GAO etc.)
08/13/2007 - See what the GAO has to say about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) effort to modernize its information technology infrastructure. The GAO's overriding critique: "[T]he program has not fully achieved many performance goals that it set out to accomplish over the past year."