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Web, email and data security under one roof

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Microsoft plans light New Year Patch Tuesday

No fix for potential denial-of-service attack

Sourcefire may target data leakage prevention in 2010

Open source firm has even thought of names

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Former Microsoft security guru lined up

Security firms pick 2010 threats

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Spammers target online Christmas shoppers

Fake flights and luxury goods used as tempters

Microsoft readies decade’s final Patch Tuesday

Critical flaw in IE on the fix list

UK businesses failing to protect laptops

IT bosses also not looking for early Windows 7 adoption

Q&A: Adrian Chamberlain, SVP Symantec Hosted Services

One year on from Symantec’s acquisition of MessageLabs, CBR talks to ex-CEO Adrian Chamberlain about how the integration has gone and what the future holds for the firm in its new role as Symantec Hosted Services.

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Towards a common key management standard: making encryption work

Enterprises are increasingly aware of the need to implement encryption in order to protect their information assets, but this has emphasized the challenges around interoperability and effective key lifecycle management. As a result, a group of storage and security vendors has announced the key management interoperability protocol, which is intended to standardize key management interfaces.

IT risk management moves on

Over the past two years, more roles have become involved in the review of risk in IT. Today, IT risk management requires that all levels of risk, including executive, managerial, and operational levels, are identified in order that it can mitigate those risks accordingly.

Trend adds reputation-based web protection

Leading anti-virus and content security firm Trend Micro has unveiled a new release of its well-established corporate desktop protection product OfficeScan. Trend claims that this release makes it the first end-point protection provider to offer website reputation rating technology as a core component of desktop protection. It will be interesting to see how quickly its competitors respond to this.

Mobile malware: deciding not to get the message

Although mobile phone viruses such as Commwarrior can have fairly unpleasant consequences for those who install them, all mobile viruses to date are still dependent upon the 'help' of users to execute. This means that, unlike e-mail, the mobile arena is still extremely diverse, and there is no simple means by which delivery and infection can be automated by the malware creator.

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