TROY - Join Automation Alley and Walsh College for a one-day conference on cyber security with nationally-recognized information security experts Tom Peltier, president of Peltier Associates and Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst of IT Harvest, who will address the growing need for businesses to take steps to protect company data and other sensitive information. Topics
YPSILANTI - Ensure Technologies and ERT Systems signed an agreement to develop radio tags designed specifically for the emergency services market. ERT Systems has licensed Ensure Technologies' hardware for more than a year for use in its ID tags and Drop Readers. This agreement calls for the two companies to co-develop a new tag specifically
YPSTILANTI - Data security products provider Ensure Technologies has named John Dunlap, a seasoned high-tech executive, President and Chief Executive Officer. Dunlap joined Ensure Technologies in February and is responsible for driving the company's growth by developing, implementing, and overseeing strategic plans aimed at delivering innovative security solutions to customers. Dunlap plans to help Ensure
TETTNANG, Germany - Avira AntiVir started making waves a few years ago, scoring high on well-respected third-party antivirus detection and removal tests. Released today exclusively on Download.com, AntiVir 9 doesn't appear to have changed much--but that's only because the interface sports the slightest of what's new. A refreshed banner logo tops the list of UI
MILFORD, Mass. - ESG Research recently conducted a project focused on confidential data security that will be published soon. However, here are some interesting advance results that support this venerable security dictum that people are the biggest security vulnerability. ESG asked 308 North American and European security professionals from large organizations (i.e. 1,000 employees or
LONDON - The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo. Vernon Coaker the U.K. Home Office security minister, on Monday said the EU Data Retention Directive, under which Internet service providers must store communications data for 12 months, does not go
VANCOUVER, Canada - The security expert who won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes last year won $5,000 on Wednesday by exploiting a hole in Safari in 10 seconds or so. Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, used a MacBook running the latest version of the Mac OS
TROY - Technology executives will have an opportunity to explore emerging technology and most topical issues in IT at the 5th Annual Midwest Technology Leaders 2009 held at the MGM Grand Casino in Detroit on June 3. This technology symposium features influential local and national speakers, networking opportunities and an examination of regional and global
DETROIT - For those readers who are already InfraGard members, you will be receiving (or have already received) an email 'Save the Date' for an exciting event coming up in April. The event is a very hush-hush one that you will be glad you put some time aside for. So please do as the email
SAN JOSE - Cisco Systems has announced the Unified Computing System, which the networking vendor sees as the future of the datacenter and how it will evolve through virtualization and cloud computing. According to Cisco, the Unified Computing System (UCS), which it has worked on with several industry partners (including VMware), will change business models