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Novell Lets Bandit Loose

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On the auditing side, the Audit Record Framework service will deliver a compliance API as well as open auditing of records from Bandit.

Regardless of what Novell actually does or doesn’t do with Bandit, the project is an open source project with code licensed under the GPL(define) and the LGPL(define) Free Software licenses. As such anyone can take the code, use it and even add to it so long as they contribute their changes back to the community.

“What we want to do is to provide a consistent identity fabric for interactions across the network,” Dale Olds, distinguished engineer at Novell told internetnews.com.

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3612911

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Disaster Recovery at the Macro Level

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DRP and its partner Business Continuity Planning (BCP) are board level initiatives and should be treated as such. If you don’t have someone within your organization with the right expertise, go find someone who specializes. Put someone in your organization solely and fully in charge of the effort with board level authority.

If you never got to the point of testing your existing plan, the right consultant will help you develop a program that requires the least amount of investment initially. In disaster recovery planning, you have to do the right things in the right order and there are no shortcuts. This will require your patience, but not a huge chunk immediately out of your pocketbook. However, this is where testing mistakes can have huge negative impact on the business.

Pick a smaller application and test recovery outside of the production environment. After each recovery test exercise, an honest review of the successes and failures is not a step to be taken lightly. This is your opportunity to refine, refine, and refine.

Documenting procedures is not for the faint of heart.

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=150&PHPSESSID=180fe654b2a330ff0b5cdba0e36eec9f

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Enterprises Attacks Tripled

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“The swelling amount of spyware, as illustrated in the Aladdin CSRT report, is a direct representation of the fast-growing network of organized criminals that empower themselves through computers rather than physical theft,” said Shimon Gruper, vice president of technologies for the Aladdin eSafe Business Unit.

http://www.it-observer.com/news/6444/enterprises_attacks_tripled/

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Microsoft Makes Security The ‘ForeFront’

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Muglia, who indicated the software is an attempt to modernize the product and make it more proactive for protecting computers, said an early beta version has been made available to some customers, with a public beta planned for the fourth quarter.

ForeFront was the most notable unveiling to underscore the company’s new “People Ready Business” plan for empowering developers and IT professionals through new software.

Muglia said Microsoft plans to prepare for this wave with the ‘People Ready Business’ plan to helping developers manage complexity and achieve agility; protect information, control access; advance the business with IT solutions; and amplify the impact of people.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3612626

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Banks should check risk controls, Bies says

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“The Federal Reserve will continue to work with our counterparts in the federal government to encourage enhanced feedback on how reporting is contributing to our common fight against money laundering and terrorism,” Bies said.

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B16693B48-1BEC-4B01-B138-7812489927B4%7D&siteid=google

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