Enterprises continue to battle the installation of unauthorised, or rogue, wireless LAN access points (AP) on corporate networks by employees who install the increasingly cheap devices unmindful of the security risks, according to speakers at Computerworld's Mobile and Wireless Conference.

Enterprises on the lookout for answers to security struggles have plenty of wares to pick from here at the NetWorld+Interop 2004 conference, as vendors such as FaceTime Communications, RedSiren, and Senforce Technologies introduced offerings.

A company looking to beef up the security of its wireless operations should start with its own policies and standards, according to Ken Newman, director of security and risk management at Deutsche Bank AG.

University of California, San Diego researchers last week got a chance to test out a host of network technologies on something they hope they will never really have to be used for: a terrorist attack.

Fancy a career as a trainer in wireless security?

Wireless vendors are rolling out a new generation of handheld computers called smartphones for corporate users, but many network executives say they won't consider them until the means to manage and secure them are clear.

After officially retiring from public service Thursday, Howard Schmidt, the former chairman-elect of the now defunct President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, announced that he will be heading back west to a new job as the vice president of security for online auction site eBay Inc.

A thermal imaging camera and the software that run it are part of a new test program at Logan airport to find technology that toughens the facility's perimeter security by automatically detecting intruders.

When recent acquisitions wreak havoc on Mathias' intrusion detection infrastructure, Tripwire serves as a backup measure.

Yankee Group says the commercial costs of spam are increasing with the growth in electronic mail, instant messaging and costly wireless bandwidth. It's time for CSOs to fight back.

The rapid spread of the “SQL Slammer” worm showed that highly vulnerable desktop servers are everywhere. Gartner explains how enterprises can shut them down for good.

Systems that authenticate users must get smarter and become sensitive to context.

As US federal law enforcement officials are finding out, there comes a point when the quest for ubiquitous computing becomes a security nightmare.

Security audits can be so detailed as to be useless. How do you fix, say, 60,000 individual “holes” in your network? Where do you start? This is a problem that folks in the government and other private groups have begun to solve.