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Faced with looming regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Craig Shumard, chief information security officer for healthcare provider Cigna, knew he needed better tools for role-based access control.

What are some of the challenges in deploying NAC? What are the alternatives for LAN security?

For DuPont, Gary Min may have seemed a model employee. A research chemist at DuPont's research laboratory in Circleville, Ohio, Min was a naturalized U.S. citizen with a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania who had worked for DuPont for 10 years, even earning a business degree from Ohio State University with help from his employer. But Min's veneer of respectability began to crack on Dec. 12, 2005, when he told his employer he would be leaving his job.

Ten simple tips to manage your enterprise technology.

Security strategy is as important as corporate strategy. Getting it right is critical. Learn how detailed cost/benefit information can lead to more effective security management decisions

In the evolving world of business intelligence, swift and targeted access to reports and analysis is the name of the game. But the frequent inability of employees to locate the results they need from high-end BI applications is prompting several enterprise search vendors to step in and address the challenge.

The customization of off-the-shelf software is the weakest link in application security. This is particularly true for widely used enterprise products such as SAP and Oracle, according to Gartner research director Rich Mogull.

The Australia Federal Police (AFP) has started a recruitment drive to fill no fewer than 12 IT positions spanning reporting, analytics, cryptography and eavesdropping.

As information security professionals, we tend to throw around certain terms when we talk about how information security should be implemented. Lately, when I've gone to meetings or written an e-mail that gives me a chance to evangelize about our security needs, my terms of preference have been "rule of least privilege" and "separation of duties."

Next to requirements, testing is the most overlooked, most under funded, most rushed, yet most critical aspect of the software development cycle. Here are 25 ways to boost the level of success.

A recent survey of 100 US IT executives predicts that IT spending will decrease slightly in 2006 as more businesses worry about global economic conditions, but security software and enterprise IT upgrades remain top concerns, according to Goldman, Sachs & Co.