November 2006 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

A new appointment draws applause

It was back in July 2005 that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff unveiled his reorganization plan for the agency. To many industry ...
 

Opinion

Why incident post mortems?

A recent discussion in the cybercrime investigation course I teach at my university got me thinking about the use of post incident root cause analysis, ...
 

Adapting physical forensics

Digital forensics is a fairly new field, especially when compared with traditional "physical" forensics. While there isn't a common set of protocols, many of the ...
 

CSO's desk

It pays to do some homework

One of the ongoing complaints I hear regularly is that it is difficult to cost justify security spend. Preaching "FUD" (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is ...
 

Letters

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Update

Company news

Layer 7 Technologies, provider of extensible markup language (XML) security and networking, has appointed Ed Koepfler as president and CEO. His role will be to ...
 

News briefs

Shake-up at McAfee An internal McAfee probe spurred by Securities and Exchange Commission inquiries has led to a shake-up at the security giant. George Samenuk retired ...
 

Debate

Should enterprises deploy a multi-engine anti-virus approach to combat malware?
 

2 minutes on...Vulnerability posts to the rescue

For the first time ever, vendors have the chance to provide more details about worrisome vulnerabilities posted to a popular government database.
 

Me and my job

Me and my job

How do you describe your job to average people? I try to find ways to help our students, faculty and staff to do their jobs ...
 

Features

IP protection

Like many businesses, WebEx Communications lives and dies by its ability to generate quality sales leads. So when executives at the web conferencing software company ...
 

The human factor

International consultancy IDC recently completed the 2006 Global Information Security Workforce Study, sponsored by (ISC)2, to provide comprehensive insight into the trends and opportunities being ...
 

MSSP M&A

Like any group in the security world, managed security service providers (MSSPs) have long been affected by the process of industry consolidation. But in the ...
 

SOX it to me

A front-page story about an enterprise being caught falsifying financial records. Hefty fines levied by government agencies. Investors leaving firms in droves. The CEO hauled ...
 

Sweet charity

When Jim Thie showed up in Americus, Ga. one day last year to interview for the chief information officer job at Habitat for Humanity International, ...
 

Remember the mainframe

When IBM unveiled the first mainframe on April 7, 1964, a high-capacity computer known as System/360 that cost $5 billion to develop, few could have ...
 

Last Word

Protecting customer information

Everyone knows that losing customers impacts the bottom line, whatever the cause may be. However, losing customers to security breaches and mistrust can be devastating. ...
 
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