Enterprise Security

• Securing Instant Messaging
  IM is rife with security holes, which translates to holes in your enterprise. Here's how to find and close them.   (11/1/2002)
• Know Your Vulnerabilities
  There's a wealth of data points to your top security vulnerabilities. These seven strategies help you tackle the biggest dangers.   (10/1/2002)
• Test Data: Security Loophole?
  When it comes to testing, using live data without access controls puts IT at risk. Special tools and processes can help.   (9/1/2002)
• Wireless Insecurity
  Whether or not you’ve deployed wireless networks, they’re a threat. Fight back with these eight steps.   (8/1/2002)
• Securing Web Services
  The upcoming SAML standard should help promote distributed, Web-services transactions, giving e-commerce an upgrade. But don't rush in; it's still only a framework.   (7/1/2002)
• Shell Game
  In computer forensics, knowing where to look is as important as knowing what you're looking for.   (6/1/2002)
• Computer Forensics Resources: Where to Start
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• Unleash the Cyberhounds!
  Follow these five steps to a good computer forensics program.   (4/1/2002)
• Put a Good Security Staff in its Place
  The biggest threat to enterprise security may be your own organization.   (3/1/2002)
• The Search for Good Security Staff
  Skilled security administrators are hard to find   (2/1/2002)
• Does Big Iron Guarantee Security? Maybe
  Are mainframe Web services more secure   (1/1/2002)
• Critical Response Teamwork
  A Computer Security Incident Response Team is as necessary to your enterprise these days as door locks and employee name badges. How big a CSIRT do you need, and how do you justify the expense to top management?   (12/1/2001)
• Locking Down Web Services
  If Web services are the future of distributed computing, you need to meet its considerable security challenges head-on—and sooner rather than later.   (11/1/2001)
• Security Angst
  Employees are rebelling against security practices and testing the boundaries of corporate controls. Clear policies and responsibilities enforcement can keep workers on your side.   (10/10/2001)
• Pandora's Box or Panacea?
  PKI's promise is to help make e-commerce transactions truly secure. But because it's built on a fragile underlying Web of trust, be careful when implementing it in your enterprise.   (9/1/2001)
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  When mainframes ruled supreme, it was security through obscurity. Today we need better systems for keeping the entire enterprise secure.   (8/1/2001)