Email Looms as IT Threat

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What emerges from all this is far from the landscape described by email management vendors, in which organizations are eager to adopt technology to sort and save important email.

When it comes to archiving email, nearly 60 percent of respondents said they save email as part of regular backup. Just 3 percent reported outsourcing email archiving.

“As anyone who has gone through an e-discovery process can attest, finding and producing relevant emails from back-up is not the same as producing them from an archive in which the content is based on the subject and relevance of the email.”

According to the Radicati Group consultancy, the volume of email that the average corporate user sends and/or receives every day will grow 30 percent within the next four years, from 16.4 Mbytes in 2006 to 21.4 Mbytes per day in 2010. And unless companies start taking action, Mancini implies, they’ll be risking both their ability to produce relevant proof for compliance or litigation, but also their ability to benefit from increased use of email.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=107231&WT.svl=news1_2

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Compliance: A Multi-Front War

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“Enterprises are doing all of their compliance work in silos, and they aren’t seeing the commonality between [the projects], particularly in the area of security,” says Stephen Barlock, North America security lead at Accenture. “The net result is that their compliance efforts are much too complex.”

Enterprises are also finding that the costs of their compliance efforts are rising, not falling, because of the growing number of independent, and sometimes redundant, regulatory efforts, says Mark Perry, vice president of global consulting services at Symantec, who will head the joint venture.

SOX and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) mandate data protection, but don’t give any IT specifics. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards outline more specific requirements.

“What we encourage companies to do is build a matrix of the requirements,” says Chris Apgar, president of Apgar and Associates LLC, a compliance consulting firm. If they meet the most stringent security requirements on the matrix in each category, the result should be a security platform that meets the compliance mandates of all of them. For example, if you look at SOX and GLBA, they don’t say much about encryption,” Apgar says.

Accenture and Symantec are working on a way to automate the process of correlating the security requirements of each regulatory mandate and identifying the most stringent elements, says Accenture’s Barlock. “With this joint venture with Symantec in place, though, we think the days of doing this manually are numbered.” “If you want to encrypt email, a $250,000 package from Tumbleweed is a pretty sure thing to pass an audit,” he says.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=106910&WT.svl=news2_5

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Oracle commits to rating vulnerabilities

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“Oracle introduced these changes as the result of feedback we received from many of our customers,” Eric Maurice, manager for security in the company’s Global Technology Business Unit, stated in the blog.

“We hope that these changes will help our customers assess the criticality of the vulnerabilities resolved with each CPU and help them obtain patching decisions from their senior management more quickly.”

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/326

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Conducted by Harris Interactive, the study found that IT executives are increasingly aware of energy

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For example, many companies are maxing out the power equipment in their data centers, which is needed to run and cool computing gear.

Virtualization technology will allow customers to potentially power down under-used resources and consolidate the computing load on other servers, Douglas said.

In addition, Sun is in negotiations with several utility providers in the United States to replicate a rebate program around Sun servers that the company established with California’s Pacific Gas and Electric, he said.

http://news.com.com/Data+centers+eye+power+costs/2100-1015_3-6124586.html?tag=nefd.top

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Britons fear cybercrime more than burglaries

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A huge 17 percent also felt that the dangers far outweighed the positive aspects and preferred not to use the Internet at all.

According to Patrick McFadden, a junior minister at the Cabinet Office quoted in The Guradian: “Fear of online crime is an important issue that must not be ignored.

Report can be downloaded from: http://www.getsafeonline.org/media/GSO_Cyber_Report_2006.pdf

http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=201544436

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