As technology advances, ensuring the security of computer systems, networks, and applications becomes increasingly critical. One of the ways in which security professionals can assess the security ...

The need is being driven partly by the heightened focus on overall security since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the establishment of regulations such as HIPAA and ...

Software maker Symantec unveiled on Tuesday a package of network-security management tools designed to make it easier and faster for corporate administrators to protect their networks from viruses and ...

ORLANDO — Honeypots have largely been relegated to use by academia and antivirus vendors because most enterprise IT teams figure they’re too expensive to run and could land their companies in legal ...

Physical security systems are no longer independent and stand-alone. In the modern era, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has revolutionized the way we interact with technology, offering ...

More sophisticated access control systems, along with the convergence of physical security with other corporate functions such as building controls and human resources data bases that use the ...

If the turnout for Network World’s “Security Showdown” a few weeks ago at ComNet 2001 is any indicator, many people have network security on their minds. A question I made to Check Point Systems Inc.

Software maker Symantec unveiled on Tuesday a package of network-security management tools designed to make it easier and faster for corporate administrators to protect their networks from viruses and ...

What is defense in depth? Defense in depth is a security strategy in which multiple security tools, mechanisms, and policies are deployed in tandem on the assumption that if one fails, another will ...

Problems keep mounting for the Joint Regional Security Stacks program. (1st Lt. Lauren Woods/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — For the fourth year in a row, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recommended ...

Any chief information officer who assembled a portfolio of 130 discrete products to address a single problem would probably be accused of mismanagement. But when the problem is cybersecurity, they’re ...