Stories about: MCI

Wireless devices are multiplying, making more people more productive . . . and creating enormous management, support and security headaches for CIOs. You need a plan for juggling these new gadgets. Here's the plan.

Sure, you've got a million-dollar security battleship, but it's full of. . . 50-Cent Holes!

Is enterprise VoIP (voice over IP) due for a security wakeup call or are the threats mostly exaggerated? It depends on who's talking.

Criminals are increasingly targeting corporations with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed not to disrupt business networks but to be used as tools to extort thousands of dollars from the companies.

Leading global telecommunications companies, ISPs (Internet service providers) and network operators will begin sharing information on Internet attacks as members of a new group called the "Fingerprint Sharing Alliance," according to a published statement from the new group.

It was a requirement that come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better have conducted quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last year that it won't do business with them otherwise.

If you could invite any 10 security pros to breakfast, who would you choose? Howard Schmidt, eBay CISO, recently convened a security dream team in San Francisco to announce the creation of the Global Council of CSOs.

A group of information security professionals has formed a "Global Council of CSOs" (chief security officers) in an effort to better address online security challenges.

Last October's hacker attack on the global root servers that run the core addressing system of the Internet knocked out seven of the 13 servers for a time, but caused nary a problem for most Internet users.