Stories about: Siemens

The role management software vendor community is relatively young, and as such, Burton Group says there is no clear market leader. Vendors can be categorized into two segments: general purpose solutions and embedded solutions.

Consolidation (of smaller players) and convergence (of physical and IT security technologies) keep CSOs on their guard.

Security will be a major focus this week at the giant Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. This year, the annual IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security threats facing enterprise networks. Now it's not just data networks that are under attack; VoIP and even paper documents are at risk.

The author of a study into firewalls prepared for general practitioners under the Broadband for Health program claims it has been dumbed down so much by federal health bureaucrats, the document is now virtually useless as an IT security guide.

Industrial control systems sit squarely at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds. They're vulnerable, they're unpatchable, and they're connected to the Internet.

Mobile phones running Symbian's Series 60 operating system are the target of a new strain of the Skulls Trojan horse program. The new Trojan comes with the Cabir.B worm, which, unlike the first version of the virus, can spread to other phones within reach of Bluetooth broadcasting range.

More details are emerging about what may be the first mobile phone worm.

A poorly handled employee termination can create a slew of security risks. That's why CIOs and CSOs need a process for letting workers go.