Stories about: ADVENT

For those of us who make our living behind a keyboard in IT, it's hard to imagine a more time-tested vulnerability than the end-user. Armed with network access, these IT viruses wreak havoc nearly everywhere you look -- havoc borne of tech idiocy.

In a new study that has potentially Orwellian implications, ABI Research projects that revenue for video surveillance software will quadruple over the next five years.

The world's first large-scale 802.11n wireless LAN is now operational. And students using the network at the small, rural New York state college where the wireless technology is deployed say they see a dramatic difference in what they can do with it, along with a more reliable WLAN connection.

Back in 2001 Peter Piper picked a pack of Privacy Principles, but thus far no one's found themselves in much of a pickle.

Terms like firewall, IDS, and deep packet inspection may be indicative of today's network security landscape, but tomorrow's may also include 'big brother' style appliances that log all user activity in an attempt to counter internal threats.

CSOs will very likely live to see the day when human brains are easily augmentable through an array of knowledge implants, apps and Wi-Fi capabilities. If securing an enterprise seems tricky today, imagine installing firewalls in a few thousand employees' prefrontal lobes.

From configuring the hardware to connecting all the stovepipes, security executives need to tune up both for light jabs and roundhouse rights. CSO talks defensive strategy with Bill Boni, CISO of Motorola, and Ira Winkler, chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard.

Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, likes to dole out his first tenet of IT security, and it’s one that one no one should forget.