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This release will be followed in the coming months by new versions of a handful of other products, including eTrust Access Control, Audit, Directory, Single Sign-On and Web Access Control.

The new integrated suite structure holds appeal for large enterprises because of the improved level of granularity it delivers, customers say.

The entire suite will include support for a number of security industry standards, including Security Assertion Markup Language and Security Provisioning Markup Language.
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While cyberterrorism and other fad-threats haven’t turned out to be pose the risks which many experts had predicted, the number one source of tech threat remains inside a business itself – its staff and its internal processes, according to Arjen van Zanten of KPMG’s risk management business.

He claimed there still exists a cultural barrier between IT departments and the board. “The board of directors don’t understand anything about security,” he said.

Tom Scholtz, VP of research firm Meta Group, replied “but the heads of IT, and above all those in charge of security, aren’t up to the job of reassuring them”, in the course of a roundtable on the value of security.

Just a few years ago, IT security was considered a restriction on businesses. Like putting the brakes on a vehicle only has one result: it slows down how fast you can go. Today, luckily, it’s considered as a sign of confidence and people realise that using the brakes actually helps you go to faster.

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Microsoft Corp. plans to publicly release a threat modeling tool it uses internally to help software developers create more secure software. The tool can display threats in a diagram after information such as usage scenarios and the environment More info: [url=http://security.itworld.com/4357/031031msthreatmodel/page_1.html]http://security.itworld.com/4357/031031msthreatmodel/page_1.html[/url]

The updated Integrity security software also includes new features to secure corporate instant messaging (IM), including encryption, content filtering, usage controls, and event reporting.

Rather than tie itself to a specific client, Integrity can be integrated with any enterprise IM system that accesses the America Online, Microsoft, or Yahoo public instant messaging services.

Also on Monday, Zone Labs unveiled a new edition of its stand-alone ZoneAlarm personal firewall that sports several new identity theft defenses.

ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5 now verifies that users are actually connecting the real eBay Web site — not a faux, spoofed site — includes a new encryption tool called myVAULT where users can store confidential information such as credit card numbers and online banking PINs, and prevents personal data from leaving the computer without the user’s knowledge.

ZoneAlarm Pro is scheduled for release in mid-November, according to Zone Labs.

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In a letter to executives at technology companies, Rep. Adam Putman, R.-Fla., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, says he’d rather avoid legislating such action–but that the gravity of such vulnerabilities may leave him no alternative.

Putman says he circulated a discussion draft to industry representatives, who responded with “some interesting ideas for alternative approaches” to accomplish the goal of protecting the nation’s computer networks.

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A teenage computer student has pleaded guilty to hacking into IT systems at an American nuclear weapons laboratory. More info: [url=http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126141]http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126141[/url]