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Whether it be hurricane, flood, fire or simply a member of staff accidentally hitting the delete key, your company’s data is constantly at risk from being permanently …

For a moment let’s suppose I am the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation and I send an Instant Message to my General Counsel. He sends me information that should …

The continuance of malicious computer attacks has made security a front page topic in almost every board room and IT oversight committee. Most IT departments accept that …

SQL injection is a technique for exploiting web applications that use client-supplied data in SQL queries without stripping potentially harmful characters first. Despite being …

Cookies provide a method for creating a stateful HTTP session and their recommended use is formally defined within RFC2965 and BCP44. Although they are used for many purposes, …

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks are quickly gaining popularity as serious contenders in the remote-access marketplace. Analysts predict that products based …

This whitepaper deals with developing a secure framework, both for internal and outsourced development. Within this context, secure development is considered to be the process …

Denial of Services attacks aimed at disrupting network services range from simple bandwidth exhaustion attacks and those targeted at flaws in commercial software to complex …

The third annual survey into office scruples conducted by Infosecurity Europe 2004 found that office workers are still not information security savvy. A survey of office …

Spam, spim, spoofs-¦will it ever end? Cloudmark believes that spam and all of its incarnations will indeed disappear through a combination of carefully harvested human …

IT professionals and their businesses have learned the hard way in recent years that disaster can strike at anytime and that they must be prepared. Companies unable to resume …

Thankfully these days’ assessing the security of an application prior to implementation is a normal process for most organisations. Organisations accept the view that …