Meryl K. Evans, The
Remediator, speaks with George Kurtz, CEO, Foundstone
and Chris Wysopal, Vice President, @stake
We pass laws and we apply
patches on a daily basis, yet hackers are still sneaking
into the system and making themselves Gods. They only need
to find the 0.01% of misconfigured systems to take over a
network (one in every thousand).[
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Editorial Corner
Viruses, Worms, Security, Laptops ... How Secure is Possible?
As if it isn't challenging enough to take care of an everchanging network, techs have to deal with external threats of viruses and worms. Does having every patch
implemented the minute a virus or worm breaks equal a 100% secure network? The feature explores how much protection is realistic for a standard network.
In the last issue, a colleague asked about securing shopping carts beyond SSL. It’s no surprise for any tech-savvy person to be confused as to what approach to take with the myriad of options available. We narrowed down reader responses to the five most popular answers offering security to put your mind at ease. Next problem up for solving, asks how to deal with laptops coming and going as they please.
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"We are adding shopping cart functionality to our web site and want to protect our customers' credit card information. We will be sure to use SSL (https) to encrypt the data, however, I don't know if that is enough."
"What are your readers' thoughts on using a third-party verification service? What else can we do to protect our customers?"
"Our company has a lot of people that use laptops. They take their laptops home at night and connect to the Internet. I'm worried about when these machines come back to the office - who knows what malware (worms, trojans) might be running on them. When they plug into the network, they've bypassed the perimeter security (firewall) and may be introducing worms into our network."
"What can I do? It’s probably unrealistic, but maybe necessary that I should ban laptops from leaving the office?"
