Boyne Resorts needed an easier way to protect its network and retail points-of-sale. It found a solution, reports Greg Masters.

AIG's CSO Paul DeGraaff says security professionals must gauge the risks of a younger workforce, Dan Kaplan.reports.

Too often, network security relies on placing firewalls in front of public network access points and calling it a day. But with open ports for every partner, contractor and remote user who demands access, the perimeter wall may be nothing more than an initial line of defense.

This is a very special issue to me and the team at SC Labs because it is based on a year of seeing the good and the not so good. We actually saw almost no bad products, so it was a pretty good year overall. It is special for you because it helps answer the question, "If we are going to buy security tools in the next 12 to 18 months, what should we be looking at?"

We handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year.

The top cybersecurity events of the year.

The end of yet another year sees in this final 2007 edition of SC Magazine our annual roundup of top thinkers, interesting happenings, business developments and criminal acts.

On the hunt for more innovative solutions to holistically safeguard organizations' growing networks, Peter Stephenson pinpoints the product categories and solutions you might consider next year.

For decades we have fussed around with how we describe our profession. It started with data security, evolved to computer security, and then took off in several directions. Today most professionals are pretty well satisfied with information security.

Here is an update from the IT security industrys boardrooms.