Virtualization is the Next Big Thing, and certainly you've at least examined it, and probably are using several virtualized servers already. How are you handling the security of your images? How are you securing the guest and host operating systems, and the applications you're running? Virtualization...

"Long gone are the days when you knew your data was safe because it resided only in your data center. The explosive proliferation of laptops, notebooks, handheld computers, smartphones, removable drives, and Internet file storage demands that we rethink how we protect information. Because it's the information...

Relax for a moment. Let your mind wander to thoughts of your corporate network-with its myriad authentication schemes, its haphazard collection of client computers in various states of (non) conformance, its proliferation of access methods, its data centers with too many ways in and out. Feel like you...

Long gone are the days when you knew your data was safe because it resided only in your data center. The explosive proliferation of laptops, notebooks, handheld computers, smartphones, removable drives, and Internet file storage demands that we rethink how we protect information. Because it's the information...

Are you the kind of security person who enables a setting just because it's there? Do your users constantly seek ways to bypass all your fine-tuned security, just so they can do their jobs? Every security decision your organization makes ought to consider the security-usability (or even the security...

Seems like Windows Mobile 5 came out just the other day, but yes, version 6 is now ready. We listened to your feedback and incorporated several enhancements and new capabilities to make Windows Mobile 6 truly enterprise ready. We take an in-depth look at how Windows Mobile now supports Rights Management...

Relax for a moment. Let your mind wander to thoughts of your corporate network—with its myriad authentication schemes, its haphazard collection of client computers in various states of (non)conformance, its proliferation of access methods, its data centers with too many ways in and out. Feel like you...

Bored with Windows networking? Haven't seen anything new in, like, forever? Well just wait until you see what Windows Vista packs! It's networking components are all-new from the ground up. The TCP/IP stack has been rebuilt for performance and security, with routing compartments that prevent unwanted...

The human element is often ignored in security. Organizations will spend fortunes on technology and are still vulnerable to old-fashioned manipulation! Steve Riley takes you through the issues that are present when people, computers and networks meet. In an example-filled session we delve into the depths...

For most of the history of computing, operating systems have lived in their own little bubbles of trust. Every part of an operating system pretty much assumed that every other part was exactly what it claimed to be and performed only what it claimed it could do. Recent attacks, though, have shown that...

How do firewalls track sessions? How does SSL secure data? Why is UDP believed to be so bad, and can it be secured? How do routers route, and can they be tricked? To be an effective security administrator requires fairly detailed knowledge of certain networking communications protocols. Some of the early...

So you've consumed the books. You've devoured the guides. You've ravaged the newsgroups. You've even slogged your way through conferences and, um, pre-conferences. Yet: are you really secure? Are you doing the right things -- that is, if you're confident you even know what those right things are? Do...

So you've consumed the books. You've devoured the guides. You've ravaged the newsgroups. You've even slogged your way through conferences and, um, pre-conferences. Yet: are you really secure? Are you doing the right things -- that is, if you're confident you even know what those right things are? Do...

So you've consumed the books. You've devoured the guides. You've ravaged the newsgroups. You've even slogged your way through conferences and, um, pre-conferences. Yet: are you really secure? Are you doing the right things -- that is, if you're confident you even know what those right things are? Do...

So you've consumed the books. You've devoured the guides. You've ravaged the newsgroups. You've even slogged your way through conferences and, um, pre-conferences. Yet: are you really secure? Are you doing the right things -- that is, if you're confident you even know what those right things are? Do...

So you've consumed the books. You've devoured the guides. You've ravaged the newsgroups. You've even slogged your way through conferences and, um, pre-conferences. Yet: are you really secure? Are you doing the right things -- that is, if you're confident you even know what those right things are? Do...