Forbes Video : The different roles of corporate security and corporate information

Video

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Oct 13, 2009 Priorities

“Experts in the security field said the focus should be on the end-user and IT should first patch holes in Internet Explorer (IE) and in Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI).

Those two technologies are addressed in MS09-054 (IE) and MS09-062 (GDI)”

I tend to agree here, as the GDI goes across multiple products, and we use IE everyday.

Customer Data Lost in the Cloud - An example of why DR Planning should be part of cloud strategy

Sidekick example TMobile


Microsoft says most if not all data recovered...some confidence, same basic issue to validate before jumping to Cloud.

Security First's - DataCentric Secure Parser

SecureParser

Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE)

Currently reviewing this product.

Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE), Voltage SecureData maintains data format and eliminates
business process changes.

http://www.voltage.com/end-to-end/index.htm

Zeus Trojan Writeup

A good writeup on the Zeus Trojan and its proliferation.

Zeus

Google Apps Link for Outlook Clients

I find this impressive and Google's move to get infrastructure costs out of IT.

Take a look.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/outlook_sync.html

Windows 7 Applocker - a quick look

Applocker Screen