DETROIT ? Seminars on information assurance and patch management updates are the topics in May of two events co sponsored by the Grand Rapids and Motor City Chapters of the Information Systems Security Association. On May 24, Walsh College is offering at its Novi Campus a half-day seminar on information assurance to government and not
ARLINGTON, Va. ? U.S. CERT ? United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team ? issued two alerts in April, one on the security vulnerabilities of various Oracle products and the other on Microsoft and the vulnerabilities discovered in Windows. Oracle released a Critical Patch Update in April that addresses more than seventy vulnerabilities in different Oracle
TROY ? Some eighty Security professionals attended the SecureDetroit 2005, which doubled as an (ISC)2 Security Leadership Seminar, an event Walsh College plans to make an annual event. SecureDetroit?s focus was on Enterprise Vulnerability Management, said Nanette Poulios, Director of Walsh?s Information Assurance Center and assistant professor in the Business Information Technology Department. The event
CHICAGO ? Dan Lohrmann, Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Michigan, has been nominated for the first Information Security Executive of the Year Midwest Awards 2005. This Award, which recognizes information security excellence across the Midwest, will be presented at a gala dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on May 12. Lohrmann,
DETROIT - Asks a banner ad on the SANS web site (www.sans.org) for a leading provider of enterprise information consolidation tools for monitoring security systems in real time: Prime Time for Real Time is the title of an article in the latest issue of Intelligent Enterprise talking about how business success is defined more and
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The ?password blues? is a term coined by Dan Blum of The Burton Group, and it refers to the collection of passwords a typical user has to navigate multiple directories, web sites and portals to make their way through a manufacturing, design and/or procuring process. In a customer model ? this phenomena
YPSILANTI ? What does your IT Security Index look like? In recent study Marcus Fedell, manager of federal opportunity products at INPUT reported that civilian cyber security ? related IT spending is anticipated to grow 27 percent over the next five years due to poor security assessment ratings and increased attention to homeland security. Vulnerability,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Our Security Ask the Expert Question in April came from a business owner who asked how he can stop employees from using the Internet for non appropriate sites. The answer came from Tim Whitmer, CISM, CISSP of Computer Associates. Question: As a business owner, how can I stop employees from using the
SOUTHFIELD ?The Detroit Chapter of the Society of Information Management was one of the winners of the annual SIM Membership Growth Competition for 2004, posting the highest growth of membership in its size category. The Detroit Chapter of SIM won the award for the ?Large? category of between 51 and 100 members. The announcement was
SAN FRANCISCO ? CNET.Com warns a new variant of the Crowt worm could block infected browsers from accessing Web sites belonging to some antivirus sellers, and could send bank customers to fraudulent sites. Crowt.D, first discovered last week, opens up the Google News site upon infection, then alters the computer's HOSTS file to add a