DETROIT - The Michigan InfraGard board met Nov. 3 to discuss some changes in direction and planning issues for the upcoming year. Initial direction was determined regarding the creation of a limited administrative infrastructure - in other words, a real physical location, phone, and other necessities of actually doing business as a distinct entity. This
TROY - Walsh College presents Michigan's only official (ISC)2 CISSP Exam Preparation, November 27 - December 1, at the Troy campus. CISSP certification is the industry gold standard and recognizes an extensive body of knowledge. The five-day seminar is taught in modules by Walsh faculty and professional experts, specially trained in the CISSP CBK, and
SOUTHFIELD - The statistics are staggering: security losses in the billions, unauthorized computer usage in 50-percent of businesses, $2 million spent per company on a single virus attack. A new book offered by CA holds the key to mitigating these security threats. The Black Book on Corporate Security offers a wide range of solutions to
ROYAL OAK − Security solutions provider Intelligent Connections will host a free web security seminar and go-karting event for IT professionals ? all you CTOs, CIOs, IT/IS, Manager IT/IS or any similar and relevant titles on Dec. 6. The event, called Get Up To Speed With Web Security ? and Show Off Your Go-Karting Skills,
SOUTHFIELD ? The lead information security manager for General Motors Corp. will discuss Outsourcing Information Security: Truth or Fiction at the Nov. 16 meeting of the Motor City Chapter of the ISSA. Tim Bates will give his talk at 6 pm at 2000 Town Center, 4th floor Mackinaw Room, the Cisco office in Southfield. The
SOUTHFIELD - Nominations for board positions are now being accepted for the posts of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary by the Motor City Chapter of the ISSA until the Nov. 16 meeting, when the nominees will be announced. All ballots must be returned one week before the December meeting. Results will be announced and
DETROIT ? Mighty Key is offering the first product to combine military-level data encryption with ease of use, which lets users surf the Web anonymously using high-level encryption. Imagine your hard drive crashes and you lose all of your important files, or the table next to you at a Wi-Fi caf� steals your credit card
WASHINGTON DC - Federal agencies not only regularly lose personal identity data, but also don't even always know what they've lost or how many Americans are affected, a recently-released House report claimed. According to the report issued by the House Government Reform Committee, all 19 federal departments and agencies from which data was requested had
WASHINGTON DC - Data breaches are on the rise in the business world. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 330 data loss incidents involving more than 93 million individual records have occurred since February 2005. As these incidents increase in number, so too do the associated expenses that companies end up paying for
SEATTLE - Security researchers on Monday warned of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could allow malicious attackers to alter content in a legitimate Web site's pop-up window. The browser flaw could affect users who visit a trusted site by opening a pop-up window in that site but containing malicious code, CNET News.Com reported.