TippingPoint Technologies: TippingPoint is addressing the need for high-speed IDS with more intelligent event reporting. Although we had some problems in initial tests (see "Tipping the Scales" ) the company is on the right track.
ZoneLabs: Known for its personal firewall, ZoneLabs is making a huge play for centrally managed desktop firewalls through a strong management platform and an aggressive partnering strategy.
CISSP: Not really a standard, but an industrywide certification that indicates the bearer has in-depth knowledge of multiple security principles.
Common Criteria: Common Criteria provides certification for specifically named and configured systems and subsystems against a given set of requirements. The value is not necessarily in the certification, but in the public technical documents detailing the product's design and testing.
ISO 17799: An international standard that describes and details policies and procedures ranging from business continuity to physical and network security and security policies.
SAML: Security Association Markup Language is an XML-based standard that lets Web services exchange authentication and access control data seamlessly. Version 1.0 was approved by OASIS on Nov. 6.
"Security Fears Are Up, So Why Is Spending Down?" (TechWeb, Nov. 2, 2002)
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
