Stories by: Tim Greene

Despite official urging, telecommuting within US federal agencies is languishing, in part because standards for how to secure mobile endpoints don't exist -- mainly the laptops telecommuters would use when outside the office.

Cisco is beefing up its Wide-Area Application Services WAN-acceleration gear that improves branch-office application performance by adding encryption and better monitoring tools.

A presentation scheduled for Black Hat USA 2007 that promised to undermine chip-based desktop and laptop security has been suddenly withdrawn without explanation.

The marriage of SonicWall and Aventail could result in a new network access control (NAC) vendor after the companies have the chance to assess and integrate their respective technologies.

Chief security officers need to comb through the wording of the governmental and industry security regulations their businesses must comply with if they want to secure their networks and stay out of legal trouble.

Businesses may unwittingly leave themselves open to application-layer attacks because they don't understand their networks lack defenses to deflect them, according to a study by Forrester Research.

VOIP gear from major vendors can be made secure, but it doesn't come out of the box that way, experts warned at RSA Conference 2007.

Insecurely written software still looms as one of the greatest threats to Internet commerce, and user-generated Web content is becoming a vast new vulnerability hackers want to exploit, according to experts at RSA Conference.

Remote access IPSec VPNs are no longer on the radar screen of companies that seek the advice of consultants at Gartner, according to a new report.

Network access control stands out as one of the most promising security technologies, but it also is one of the most misunderstood. That's in part because vendors want in on the NAC buzz and are clamoring for attention, despite selling products that are only peripheral. This raises problems for companies that want to consider NAC but don't have a solid sense of what it is, what it might do for them and what kind of investment it requires.