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News (371)

• Gartner: 'Wake up IT, you work in business'

  To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.

• The boss's iPhone: Your worst security nightmare

  As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.

• Antivirus dominates security spend

  Spending on security software across Europe will top 2.4 billion euros this year, with antivirus continuing to form the largest slice of the pie.

• 3.6 million adults fall for phishing scams

  More than a million users were duped by phishing attacks last year, compared to the year before.

• Commonwealth passes security question to Netbank users

  Commonwealth Bank is looking to shift concerns over online security to Netbank customers with the announcement that it will be giving away security software to a selection of users.

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  OS X security record threatened by iPhone?

  If the iPhone does as expected and takes a decent chunk of the growing smartphone market then the overall penetration of OS X will skyrocket and attract some serious attention from malware writers.

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  BlackBerry still lacking some flavour

  My recent rant about ongoing shortcomings in Microsoft's ActiveSync -- generated a variety of responses, ranging from ''sucked in'' to ''tell me about it'', but there was one more complex theme: why not use a BlackBerry instead?

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  Don't you dare Touch my new iPod

  Is Apple keeping the iPod Touch and iPhone platform closed to third party developers to protect its impressive record on security?

Features and Case Studies (149)

• Gartner, Microsoft war over 'ditch Passport' claim

  Recommendations in an article published by analysis giant Gartner urging its customers to break all connections with Microsoft's Passport authentication system are "a little extreme", according to the software company.

• The next frontier for app server supersuites: Security

  With this week's rollout of Web Logic Enterprise Security, BEA is fueling the convergence and consolidation of application security and identity management. Is BEA fighting an uphill battle?

• ROI for Web services: Risk factors

  Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects.

• Analysis: Can iPhone's biz-savvy lure enterprise?

  Apple has made a push towards enterprise with the release of its SDK roadmap yesterday -- but will enterprise take the bait?

• Managing your move into mobility

  With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

Reviews (29)

• Is Internet Explorer 7 a marketing ploy?

  Is Internet Explorer 7 just another security patch disguised as a "new" offering? Should it rightfully be called IE 6.1 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, asks Fran Foo.

• Watching the detection

  They may not be perfect, but intrusion detection systems should be a part of your enterprise security arsenal.

• Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

  Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

• Two-headed hard drive aims for security

  A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.

• Battling for better backup

  How can Australian businesses configure backup software so that it reduces rather than increases workloads, and perhaps even provides some return on investment in the process?

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