IronPort Receives Four Prestigious Industry Honors

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. - May 19, 2008 - IronPort Systems, a leading provider of enterprise spam, virus and spyware protection, and now part of Cisco, announced today that it is the proud recipient of multiple "best-in-class," readers' choice, and performance ratings from key industry publications. IronPort products recognized in the past month include the company's C-Series and X-Security appliances and SenderBaseTM, the world's largest email and web traffic monitoring ...

A New, Holistic Approach to Enterprise Security Aligns Business and IT

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May 19, 2008 By Howard Baldwin In November 1984, there was an inflection point in the progression of technology. To DOS 3.1, Microsoft added network support. For the first time, PCs were thought of not as standalone machines, but as key participants in corporate computing. ...

Information Systems Security Association Names Cisco 2007 Organization of the Year

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 19, 2008 - Cisco announced today that it has been selected as the Information Systems Security Association 2007 Outstanding Organization of the Year, in recognition of Cisco's contributions to ISSA and the security profession overall. ISSA is the largest international professional association for information security specialists. With 10,000 members in 70 countries supported by a network of more than 125 chapters, ISSA professionals are consulted as experts ...

Auditing PHP: Understanding register_globals

 ( 144 days 21 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: Conduct your audit on an exact copy of your production environment. You don't need to duplicate the hardware, but you want to make sure the software versions are as close as possible. The PHP configuration must match exactly, as specified in the php.ini file, the Apache directives in .htaccess files, or httpd.conf. You need a separate environment because you will display and log errors that might reveal sensitive passwords and other information. Also, you will try to break the security of the site, which is something you want to avoid with live applications. Preforming security audits on you our PHP application is an important skill to have. This article will show you this in great detail, where any PHP developer can increase their web application security.

Popular Open Source Spam Filter Gets Boost

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LinuxSecurity.com: SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels.
The tool -- called Traffic Control 3 -- is an e-mail traffic-shaping package that slows down the transmission of spam into corporate e-mail systems. (Compare Messaging Security products.) MailChannels officials say Traffic Control 3 will reduce spam volumes by 50% to 75% for SpamAssassin users.