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A Microsoft executive tells the SecTor 2008 crowd how to get every business unit thinking about protecting data without shelling out big bucks on new training and services

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More than half (51 per cent) of all U.K. firms have not implemented the security processes to comply with legislative directives such as PCI and MiFID, says a report.

Users hate passwords. They don't like entering them to gain access to a system; they don't like inventing new ones every 30 or 60 or 90 days; and they really don't like having different passwords for different systems. The more active and mobile the user, the more often they must enter passwords, and so their resentment grows.

Users hate passwords. They don't like entering them to gain access to a system; they don't like inventing new ones every 30 or 60 or 90 days; and they really don't like having different passwords for different systems. The more active and mobile the user, the more often they must enter passwords, and so their resentment grows.

Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security researcher warned.

Information security may have been generally viewed in the past as something that

Regulatory compliance requirements and concerns over data compromises have elevated the importance of information security issues in corporate boardrooms, according to panelists at the 32nd annual conference organized by the Computer Security Institute. And that trend is lending urgency to the need for security managers to adopt a more business-oriented approach to their jobs.