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It used to be easy for US Bank to determine which users and systems could be trusted, and which should be viewed with suspicion. Then along came Web 2.0.

A majority of organizations are in need of IT workers with security, firewall and data privacy skills, but more than 40 per cent surveyed by the Computing Technology Industry Association in the US said their IT employees are not proficient in such skills.

A look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

If you've got a wireless network at home or at your business and don't take special care to protect it, well, you're playing Russian roulette -- and the chamber is loaded with multiple bullets.

From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person.

Remember when thumb sucking was considered an innocent activity, except that if you did it as a young child you might need braces as a teen? Today you'd need a lot more than a mouthful of metal to protect from thumb sucking.

Tony Soprano's dislike of computers is well-known, but in 2007, it's hard to keep a business running without one. (Another argument for creator David Chase ending the show after five seasons, but too late now.) Tony knows that yesterday's bookie can't compete with a txt-ing young punk offloading his risky punts on Betfair, and that though tradition's important, sometimes old-school thinking just doesn't cut it. To stay on top, a business has to move with the times.

Consolidation (of smaller players) and convergence (of physical and IT security technologies) keep CSOs on their guard.

PC users are now the weakest link in the security chain, IBM has suggested in its Security Threats and Attack Trends Report for 2005.

You might think you've heard about every possible security vulnerability in your network, but what about your copiers?

Storage professionals are feeling less confident in the security of their storage networking infrastructures, according to an informal poll conducted during the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando on Tuesday.