Stories about: Check Point Software

New companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security.

Security researchers have warned that Snort, a popular intrusion-detection and prevention sensor, could leave networks open to attack.

If you manage IT for a government organization -- be it federal, state, or local -- you don't have the luxury of waiting to harden your network defenses, unlike IT managers of commercial enterprises. Public agencies are legally accountable for safeguarding the information they have on their computers, so you must protect that information to avoid serious consequences.

Four security software rivals are have teamed up to set a baseline standard for application security firewalls, challenging others in the industry to join them.

A Californian company is set to shake up the debate about the merits of IPsec versus SSL. Net6 says that it has managed to merge the two technologies, just as the two camps had managed to agree on a common message to the market.

It was a requirement that come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better have conducted quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last year that it won't do business with them otherwise.

Imagine spending three years and millions of dollars to plan a campus-style LAN for 10,500 PCs and 900 servers, knowing it would only be in place for three weeks, with thousands of TV and magazine reporters watching to see if it works?