As enterprises take on the Internet as a new business tool - whether to sell, to collaborate or to communicate - web applications have become the new weakest link in the organization's security strategy. Anthony Lim, Secretary, Security & Governance Chapter of the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation talks in depth about the challenges faced by companies as they immersed themselves on the Web.
System management looms large in the endpoint protection market.
Most network infrastructure today are secured using state of the art technology and best practices. But most of the threats are coming in through the application. Anthony Lim, the Secretary for the Security and Governance Chapter of the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation talks about the loophole in many of today's security strategy.
Without knowing the particular business and its environment, it's impossible to make a good judgment call on the wisdom of this change, but keep in mind that any good executive, CISO or otherwise, will change his or her priorities and programs as the overall business priorities change.
In recent months, unified threat management (UTM) solution vendor, Fortinet, has beefed up its web, application and database security capabilities for enterprises of all sizes. Specifically, it introduced the FortiOS 4.0 firmware upgrade for its FortiGate security appliance, and the FortiWeb web application and XML firewall that complements its FortiDB database security product.
A new survey suggests senior and mid-level executives want to expand use of social networking platforms, cloud-based collaboration tools and other applications.
Kaspersky Lab researchers have tracked more than 25,000 malware samples spreading through social networks in 2009.
Security researcher Aviv Raff will document a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws and other errors threatening Twitter users.
The number of Web application vulnerabilities detected by the vendor is on track to exceed 2008, according to the latest statistics.
Users of ColdFusion 8 can apply a patch which blocks ongoing attacks compromising websites built with the application development platform.
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