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Schools suffer two major. disadvantages when it comes to security. First, while they may be aware of potential vulnerabilities and attacks, they're not necessarily in the same position as private [...]

Improving the security of the plant floor requires a highly coordinated effort by both IT and control departments. Conducting annual staff surveys on the cooperation between groups and the development of cross-department training programs are some of the ways to foster cooperation between departments to provide better security for the plant.

With the creation of the Web and the rise of Internet-based communications, application characteristics and requirements have changed significantly over the past decade. Traditional transaction-oriented systems are giving way to [...]

What we hired the network to do in the past--reliably switch and route packets at high speeds--has basically been achieved. Speeds of 1- and 10-Gigabits far outstrip the needs of [...]

The need to evaluate computer user accounts, in order to safeguard accounting information under Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is discussed.

The various methods to control virus attacks on computer networks are discussed. The details of anti-virus softwares available in the market are also discussed.

Procedures to protect Administrator user account of computer networks are examined.

After a year of rapid-fire worms and trojans, increasingly buggy software, over-whelming spam and widespread power failures, what are the prospects for network availability and security in 2004? And more [...]

This article discusses cybersecurity for law enforcement networks. The author provides advise on how to plan and apply cybersecurity, such as determining security needs, thinking like a hacker, applying available patches, guarding against viruses, and penetration testing.

Does it take a thief to stop a thief? That's the question many businesses are weighing as they consider hiring reformed hackers to lock down their IT systems. "People have […]