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Insider threat and least privilege: Don’t rely on everyone being a saint or competent all of the time

GEOFF HAGGART As numerous data breach news reports reveal, attacks by people with legitimate access to an organization's computers, devices and networks represent a growing problem across the globe, and are increasingly difficult to thwart.

These insider threats frustrate employers who lack the resources to properly identify them, oversee their behaviour and protect mission-critical information technology (IT) assets from the misuse of privilege.

: GEOFF HAGGART, President International Sales, BeyondTrust; InfoSecurity; Posted On Sunday, 17 April 2011 21:01

Antivirus in the Cloud: Fad or future?

Although identified by Gartner as a top ten IT strategy for 2011, cloud technology has yet to realise its full potential in corporate IT departments - the promise of increased flexibility and scalability provided by the cloud is offset by ongoing concerns about the security of corporate data. So it is ironic that the cloud represents one of the most exciting and promising new channels for the development and use of anti-malware software.

: MALCOLM TUCK, UK Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab; Columnists; Posted On Sunday, 17 April 2011 20:55

Where Microsoft comes up short

Mind the Gap – bridging the security gap in Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform to support secure file transfer

As the next wave of Microsoft products aim to define how people work, there is still one area in which SharePoint 2010, Outlook 2010 and OCS come up short - the ability to move files quickly and securely. Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook and OCS products offer collaboration and communications functionality to business users, including basic file transfer. However for today's businesses, this basic file transfer comes up short in size and security. SharePoint limits file transfer between internal and external recipients, Outlook best practices limits file attachments to 10MB, and OCS provides no tracking or security for file transfers.

: DR PAUL STEINER, Anccellion Managing Director; Columnists; Posted On Sunday, 17 April 2011 20:43

Why IT staff shouldn’t tackle online security without a little help from Marketing

In many – or indeed most – companies that buy website security to protect their visitors’ privacy online, it is a technical person who does the buying. This seems logical – it is a technical remit, needs some technical knowledge to get it working, and because it is seen as a technical necessity, is just palmed off to the IT guys in the corner.