Cyber Defense

Importance Of Identity Management Increasing Over Next Five Years

LANSING - Federal, state, local and municipal IT professionals in the U.S. said they believe the importance of identity management will continue to increase over the next five years, according to Quest Software's new Identity Management Government Survey. Conducted by Pursuant, a public opinion research firm, on behalf of Quest Software, the study suveyed government

By |2008-03-18T00:00:00-04:00March 18th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Symantec Releases Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection For Mac

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Mac users that run both Mac OS X Leopard and Windows operating systems are now able to protect their environment better with Symantec Corp.'s new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac. The software features vulnerability protection technology and anti-virus for Mac users running Boot Camp or Windows virtualization software, which are programs

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Smartphone Users Aware Of Risks, But Most Don’t Install Security Software

SAN JOSE - Most mobile phone users don't have security software installed, even though three-quarters of them are aware that malware can infect mobile devices via Bluetooth, according to the "Online Wellbeing" survey commissioned by security-as-a-service provider F-Secure. The report was based on surveys of Web users aged 20 to 40 in the U.S., Canada,

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

CA Security Series Trends In SOA Security Management

SOUTHFIELD - Organizations have been steadily adopting the service-oriented approach to deploying applications over the last few years. This podcast will address the following questions: How are Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures impacting IAM? How does the latest release of CA SOA Security Manager help organizations manage security for SOA and Web services? To listen,

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Michigan Participating In Cyber Storm II Cyber War Games

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is conducting a series of cyber war games nationwide to test the country's ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks. Michigan security officials are participating as well, a participating source told MITechNews.Com. Code-named Cyber Storm II, this is the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Creative Breakthroughs Names Educaiton Practice Lead

TROY - Creative Breakthroughs, a network security, integration and management company, has named Sean Blenkhorn to the newly-created position of Education Practice Lead for CBI?s Business Development team. Blenkhorn will be responsible for the support and development of accounts and services in the education market. In addition to over fifteen years of technology integration and

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Friends Don’t Let Friends Miss InfraGard Meetings

NOVI - The Bring a Friend Eastern Michigan InfraGard meeting will take place on March 25th at Walsh College in Novi. This General membership meeting, hosted by the Walsh College Information Assurance Center, will have three topics. The first will be informational, but of particular use to anyone operating in the Healthcare sector - Public

By |2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00March 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Preventing, Responding To Information Security Breaches

KALAMAZOO - Information Technology and eCommerce attorney Vincent Polley of KnowConnect PLLC will give an attorney's perspective on how to both prevent and respond to information security breaches April 1 at the Kalamazoo MTEC. The event is sponsored by ConnecTech Kalamazoo. Attendees will learn what?s important, what?s imperative and what?s incidental to the process of

By |2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00March 11th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|