On December 6, analyst firm Gartner Inc., announced that Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 is positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of their 2007 SSL VPN Magic Quadrant report. Not only was IAG described as an “excellent new product...

"So at HITB in Dubai this week - some researchers announced a proof of concept 'bootkit' for Vista. A bootkit is a rootkit that is able to load from a master boot record and persist in memory all the way through the transition to protected mode and the...

Excerpt of a blog by Jeff Jones: Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product. This paper analyzes the vulnerability...

From the Blog of Michael Howard: I really got a chuckle out of this news item, especially this line: “Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified...

After noted British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson took umbrage at the massive outcry regarding the loss of personal records for 25 million UK residents he decided to prove that it was an over-reaction (in his mind) by publishing his bank details...

Every day, adversaries are attempting to invade our networks and access our servers, to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers, partners or employees. You are looking at Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to help to...

Phishing e-mails that contain a Trojan horse designed to infect users' computers will continue to increase in 2008, comprising more than one-in-three malicious e-mail attachments, Microsoft said... http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/656 Urs

Virtualization will become dominant in enterprises, but the security risks are fuzzy at best. Meanwhile, the usual defense–firewalls, security appliances and such aren’t ready for virtualization. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=821 Urs

Working together within different organizations and companies is always a big challenge. How can you work within different workspaces and share documents etc.? We just released a beta version of a Solution Accelerator we call "Extranet Collaboration Toolkit...

ISC2, the non-profit international body that educated and certifies information security professionals, today announced the publication of its "Hiring Guide to the Information Security Profession". The free 30-page guide is designed to provide human...

Detailed technical information about the latest updates released this month. http://blogs.technet.com/swi/ Urs

IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/21...