Stories about: RSA Security

As long as IT managers encrypt data using only one vendor's products, the keys used to decrypt that data can be relatively easy to manage. But it will likely become much more complicated as more vendors build encryption into more and different types of storage devices, each with their own key management system, and as users need to move encrypted data among devices for disaster recovery, legal discovery or simply everyday business communications.

On the surface, encryption has always seemed a no-brainer. Why expose confidential information to prying eyes when you could protect it by scrambling it? But even though encryption technologies have been widely available for more than 10 years, they have been slow to catch on.

Robert McMillan learns a couple of lessons in security at last week's RSA conference in San Francisco.

Stand-alone security vendors are going the way of dinosaurs.

An emerging breed of sophisticated malware is raising doubts about the ability of traditional signature-based security software to fend off new viruses and worms, according to experts at this week's RSA security conference in San Francisco.

Online scams that lure online banking and e-commerce customers to phony Web sites and trick them into giving up sensitive account information have been a mainstay of online criminals for years. However, the increase in so-called spear-phishing attacks is new, as is the increasing sophistication of the software they use to penetrate enterprise networks.

It's always interesting to see the public response to a game-changing acquisition, namely EMC buying RSA Security. This deal changes the security landscape, so I need to come up with a new name for EMC. How about EMCecurity (pronounced E-M-See-curity)? I kind of like that.

Bill Robbins, incoming senior vice president of Symantec Asia Pacific and Japan, believes EMC's proposed $US2 billion takeover of RSA Security validates the company's recent Veritas merger.

EMC's planned acquisition of RSA Security for US$2.1 billion is garnering mixed reviews from analysts on Wall Street and within the technology industry.

In a deal that marries one of the IT industry's biggest data storage vendors and one of its best-known security companies, EMC Thursday unveiled plans to acquire RSA Security.

Regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, BASEL II and HIPAA were designed to improve governance and security within the enterprise, but at some companies they appear to be doing just the opposite.