Ellen Messmer

Articles by Ellen Messmer

Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud

The Symantec survey covered 3,700 IT professionals. The biggest complaints about hybrid/private cloud computing were in scalability, security and time to provision new resources

IBM touts collaboration tools for large software projects

Collaborative Lifecycle Management 3.0 lets teams of software developers work together on project assignments across the globe

VMware seeks security ‘manager of managers’ role for vShield

Antivirus vendors, including McAfee and Trend Micro, have opted for this agentless approach, with Symantec expected out soon as well. Some analysts are skeptical as others have tried something similar before

Hacker ‘handshake’ hole found in common firewalls

Lab says five devices can let a hacker remotely fool the firewall into thinking an IP connection is a trusted one. They are trying to fix the problem.

RSA divulges details of hack on its SecurID system

RSA has started providing more detail into the mid-March attack on its SecurID token-based authentication system. The catch: to get a fuller story, you must be an RSA customer willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement

Security service on lookout for ZeuS, SpyEye

Trusteer's security service Pinpoint looks for malware. The service will let organizations receive an alert if it appears a customer desktop is infected at the very start of any authentication process

RSA attendees praise cloud, with familiar caveats

RSA CONFERENCE: IT executives say adoption is accelerating, although legal, security and technical obstacles are abound

CA cloud authentication assesses security risk

The identity management service now offers risk-based scoring that ties the strength of the authentication needed to the specific application the user wants to do after initial logon

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