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Google comes to DC

October 1, 2008 — 1:59pm ET | By Judi Hasson
Google has had lobbying operations in the nation's capital for a while, but it recently located an 18 person sales force in a Washington suburb to sell its technology to the government. The... Read more...

Firing IT workers can cost you

August 31, 2008 — 12:23pm ET | By Judi Hasson
CIO's need to be on the alert when dismissing employees, never a pleasant task. But the unpleasantness can be extended well beyond the firing if an employee seeks to compromise company computer... Read more...

Encrypt all of your laptops, or else...

July 22, 2008 — 10:01pm ET | By Judi Hasson
How easy is it to lose a laptop computer? Very easy. More than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities every year, and many more disappear at airports and... Read more...

Gartner: Seven cloud-commuting security risks

July 5, 2008 — 11:20pm ET | By Judi Hasson
Cloud computing may be the wave of the future, but one cannot ignore dangers involving data integrity, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance. Gartner, in a new report entitled, "Assessing the... Read more...

Phoenix Technologies enables remote drive security

May 9, 2008 — 1:21pm ET | By Mehan Jayasuriya

Phoenix Technologies has announced that it will bring its "FailSafe" tech to Fujitsu's new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive. FailSafe allows IT admins to remotely track,

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Data theft headaches grow

March 31, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Another week, yet another data theft. This time a laptop PC was stolen containing unencrypted, confidential data on March 4 and the event was disclosed after the company began notifying employees... Read more...

Tech tool may identify disgruntled workers

February 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The Air Force is developing a data-mining tool to root out disaffected insiders based on their email activity, according to an article in this month's International Journal of Security and Networks.... Read more...

Identity theft dropped in 2007

February 14, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Identity theft actually dropped in 2007, by at least 300,000 cases, according to a new report by Javelin Strategy and Research. That's quite a surprise for all of us who have been reading the stories... Read more...

Protect used data tapes

January 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The federal government is on the hot seat once again. Rep. Betty McCollum is calling for an investigation into whether federal agencies resold magnetic data tapes. InformationWeek reports that the... Read more...

Follow the government's lead on security

December 10, 2007 — 7:59am ET
Sometimes the government has to get it right. And one way for a company to get it right is to follow government regulations on security. A new report finds that a company's ability to protect... Read more...
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