Stories about: Nortel Networks

For the past few years, organizations have gone full-force in deploying a combination of wired and wireless enterprise networks. But now, as wireless technology matures, they are left asking: Where are the tools to unify management of these disparate networks?

IBM's move to buy Internet Security Systems (ISS) is another example of the company's strategy to grow its product offerings and expertise in key areas through acquisition.

As information security professionals, we tend to throw around certain terms when we talk about how information security should be implemented. Lately, when I've gone to meetings or written an e-mail that gives me a chance to evangelize about our security needs, my terms of preference have been "rule of least privilege" and "separation of duties."

Protecting data is not just a job for technologists. It also takes physical security and business continuity experts.

When Michael Chertoff took over 11 months ago as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, he vowed that the department would adopt a risk-based approach. No one really argued. It made sense to focus resources on the country's biggest risks.

Welcome to a world where projects fail, computers crash and secrets escape — and you don't have to be the fall guy.

Months after the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic paralyzed this picturesque city, Toronto this week opened its arms to a different kind of virus outbreak -- this time of computer virus experts.