TROY - On November 10 and 11 at the Troy Campus, Walsh College Information Assurance Center and Ernst & Young hosted the After Hours Consulting Challenge. Five teams of students competed for bragging rights and gift cards and the chance to impress the E & Y judges. The Consulting Challenge was a simulation designed to
DETROIT - The need to reduce cost and increase business performance, while at the same time evolving systems to fit global markets, ensures that IT is not longer the sideshow that it used to be. Nonetheless, one consequence of moving technology's act into the center ring is that every Chief Information Officer is now accountable
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has announced expanded licensing options and new advisory fees for its security channel partners as part of the company's efforts to expand its Security Software Advisor program. The SSA is an incentive program for eligible partners that advise on the purchase decision and deployment of Microsoft's Forefront security software products that
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - According to a recent study conducted by Business Performance Management Forum, companies that use mobile devices face exposure to regulatory compliance violations and security risks. The study, called Comply on the Fly: Keeping Pace with the Management Challenges of Mobile Data Management was sponsored by Nokia and Sybase. It revealed that
DETROIT - It has been a good year, with sponsorship of SecureWorld, the annual conference in Washington, training sessions and a strengthened presence working with the Department of Homeland Security. All board members of Michigan InfraGard wish you and yours a happy holiday and a renewed focus on security in 2007! See you then! Hans
SEATTLE - As part of its monthly patch cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday six security bulletins, at least two of them deemed "critical," but the software giant has not yet schedule a patch for Office, which is open to exploit in cyberattascks. Five of the security bulletins will include fixes for vulnerabilities in
LANSING ? The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium has formed an advisory council to mentor its organization and Board of Directors. The Council will be a group of independent business, community, economic development, education and homeland security leaders who will provide valuable guidance to help manager the consortiums rapid growth. The new Advisory Council Director is
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - As part of version 6.0 of its Webwasher gateway security product, Securing Computing Corp. has made several additions and enhancements including the integration of CipherTrust's TrustedSource, a company that Secure Computing recently acquired. TrustedSource is a reputation-based security system that has 4500 sensors deployed worldwide that monitors billions of messages that
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - The number of Network Appliance (NetApp) storage offerings, relabeled as part of IBM's N series of storage offerings, has been expanded. One of the new devices, the IBM System Storage N5600 is designed for small and medium sized businesses and scales up to 252 terabytes of physical capacity. It is available
CUPERTINO - Security specialist Symantec issued a critical update for its Veritas NetBackup 6.0 PureDisk Remote Office Edition, whose vulnerabilities could allow attackers to gain remote control over a user's system. Symantec issued the security update to address buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in the HTML-embedded scripting language PHP, which is used in its PureDisk software,