Dennis Fisher

Biometric security vendors, which for years have been trying to make the leap from science fiction to the enterprise, may soon reach their goal. Banks, health care providers and government agencies are increasingly turning to iris scanners, voice recognition software and fingerprint scanners as simple and cost-effective means of securing networks against attackers and forgetful […]

Securant Technologies Inc. is looking to take some of the heat off overworked security administrators with the launch this week of its Enterprise Transparency Architecture. The architecture provides a link between security policies that govern access to applications and to the wealth of user information stored in various locations on a corporate network. The software […]

If last year saw the birth of managed security services, then this is the year they will come of age, evolving from one-size-fits-all services into unique, proactive offerings tailored to the individual customer. This new wave of service is typified by Ubizen, a Belgian security company that this week will launch its services in the […]

A pair of security vendors is giving the concept of single sign-on another go, hoping combined architectures and technologies will allay the fears of administrators and CIOs and broaden the possibilities for e-commerce. Cylink Corp. and Securant Technologies Inc. this week will unveil a partnership that will marry the companies NetAuthority and ClearTrust SecureControl solutions, […]

Looking to recover from what was a less-than-stellar 2000, Network Associates Inc. is set to embark on an ambitious strategy that will eventually result in the companys delivering virtually all its enterprise software over the Internet. For the time being, Network Associates will continue to sell both packaged software and Web-based services and will soon […]

IT managers looking for one-stop security shopping may soon have more superstores to visit. But whether that will mean a more secure enterprise is uncertain. The one-stop security shop is not a new strategy, nor a proven one. Network Associates Inc. went on a vigorous two-year acquisition spree to offer customers soup-to-nuts security only to […]

As handheld devices such as PalmPilots and cell phones have become ever more popular, virus writers and other hackers have begun to focus some of their attention on this large and comparatively easy unsecured target. In the past six months, two Palm OS viruses—one more of an annoyance than anything else—have hit the handheld community. […]

The scene playing out on Nick Gass computer screen last week was sadly familiar: dozens of copies of the same e-mail message clogging in-boxes throughout his company. Recalling the mess caused by the ILoveYou virus last May, Gass, a systems administrator at Color Kinetics Inc., in Boston, knew that the messages were the result of […]

While many security products such as intrusion detection and anti-virus technology concentrate on identifying and alerting administrators to attacks after theyve taken place, several companies are beginning to focus on preventing the conditions that invite such attacks. Two companies in particular, WatchGuard Technologies Inc. and Entercept Security Technologies, have taken novel yet different approaches to […]

A series of high-profile events over the last few weeks has highlighted the fact that the DNS that is so critical to the Internets operation is also one of its weakest links. Though many of the specific problems have only recently come to light, security experts and CIOs said they have known for years that […]