Gartner Inc.'s Vice President of Mobile Computing Ken Dulaney argues that iphone, Palms, BlackBerry mobile e-mail devices and Web-enabled mobile phones are opening dangerous back doors into your corporate networks

Snort rules require extensive testing before going live. In this tip, Judy Novak illustrates how to test Snort rules with Scapy.

Most organizations would agree that their most valuable IT assets reside within applications and databases. Most would probably also agree that these are areas that have the weakest levels of security, making them the prime target for malicious insiders. This is a difficult problem to address, but it's not impossible.

Building up an effective career network that will accelerate the growth of your career may be difficult. In this tip, Lee Kushner and Michael Murray discuss points you should keep in mind when defining your own career network.

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa promises worldwide coverage like never before, with the BBC Sport website offering live video streaming of all matches. This presents a nightmare to IT managers are they anticipate employees accessing video coverage of the event via their desktops.

If you're a nature enthusiast, you'd know that snakes hunt by 'seeing' the heat signature of their prey. It is probably the single most effective sense that betters the five senses combined. Similarly, thermal imaging is the technology behind a new series of surveillance cameras that will be able to detect people and incidents with greater reliability in difficult conditions, even in complete darkness.

In 2009, we saw tighter regulatory mandates, more remote workers and increased focus on data loss prevention. These trends will continue into the new year. Moving deeper into 2010, SonicWALL foresees these and more emerging trends affecting industries across the board.

Cybercriminals are seeing the value in healthcare date as more and more healthcare records are getting stolen for getting drugs and other medical fraud.

The software giant is set to release eight security fixes in its latest security patch cycle.

Virtual patching was the subject of much discussion in the RSA conference 2010. While it is a good temporary solution for minor network vulnerabilities, it should not replace proper implementation of problem fixes.

The consensus in the RSA conference 2010 on PCI tokenization is that while it bears potential in credit card protection, the lack of standards to back it up is an issue for concern.

In the RSA conference 2010, security experts are saying that federal government intervention may be necessary to protect the privacy of critical network infrastructures but it should continue to mind the civil rights of its citizens.