05.25.04
Counting the cost of forgotten passwords
FORGOTTEN or lost passwords can cost companies big bucks. Technology researcher Gartner estimates it costs $US14-$US28 ($20-$40) for companies to reset a password.
Cox Communications, a US cable group, says its costs are probably not that high, which is just as well because one-fifth of calls from its 20,000 employees are to reset a password.
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Tool Scans Software Code for Holes
A new product from computer security firm @stake will help developers search computer code for errors, security holes, and other flaws that malicious hackers can use to break applications--and break into computers.
On Monday, @stake, of Cambridge, Massachusetts will unveil SmartRisk Analyzer, an application security modeling and analysis tool that scans computer code written in the C, C++, and Java languages for flaws like buffer overflows that, if left undetected, pose security risks for customers using finished software products.
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No risk to web from code theft, Cisco says
SAN JOSE: The publication of some of Cisco Systems' software blueprints on the web did not increase the security risk to the equipment that powers much of the internet, the company said.
The world's largest maker of networking gear posted a message on its website more than a week after part of its internetworking operating system source code was illegally copied and posted on a Russian website.
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Akoura Takes Fingerprinting To The Enterprise
‘Security through Obscurity’- that’s the mantra upon which Akoura Biometrics Inc., a US-based data security solution provider, has built its DataSecure platform.
Communicating to CXOtoday from USA, Billa Bhandari, founder and executive vice president- research & development, said, "The Akoura DataSecure platform protects digital information by transforming sensitive content into a plausible cover document, when once transformed looks like any ordinary spreadsheet or image. Unlike encryption, DataSecure leaves no discernable means of determining that sensitive information is contained within the document."
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Network Associates readies updated security appliances
Network Associates next week will make available the beta version of its WebShield line of gateway security appliances, adding filtering controls to block inbound or outbound content, and set policy based on usage groups.
Expected to ship in July, the three models in the WebShield 3.0 appliance line block spam and viruses, with the WebShield e250 filtering up to 35,000 messages per hour, the e500 up to 45,000, and the e1000 up to 70,000. These appliances compete with a number of other messaging security gateways, such as that from MimeSweeper. With the new functionality Network Associates is adding for scanning of inbound and outbound content for inappropriate messages or phrases, WebShield will also be competing with the content policy enforcement products from Verdasys, Vericept or Vidius.
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Security in an ERP World
Every good hacker story ends with the line: "and then he's got root access to your network and can do whatever he wants." But the story really doesn't end there. This is just the beginning of the real damage that the hacker can inflict.
While most information security initiatives focus on perimeter security to keep outsiders from gaining access to the internal network, the potential for real financial loss comes from the risk of outsiders acting as authorized users to generate damaging transactions within business systems.
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