ESD-protected RS485/422 transceivers with high noise immunity 4 April 2007, Altron Arrow, Power Electronics / Power Management Intersil's ISL315XE series of ICs are BiCMOS, IEC61000 ESD-protected, 5 V powered, single transceivers that meet both the RS485 and RS422 standards for balanced communication. Each driver output and receiver ...
microSD connectors offer space savings and card extraction protection 21 March 2007, Interconnection, Security Services & Risk Management A new series of microSD memory card connectors from Molex offer ultra compact space savings and a brake feature for smooth card extraction.
These connectors are designed for cellphones and other mobile ...
ID theft March 2007 Identity theft has emerged as a significant threat within information security today.
The action of gathering and manipulating personal information for criminal purposes is a disturbing trend that ...
Universal password authentication March 2007 More research and development is necessary for the concept of universal password authentication systems to work.
Universal password authentication systems that allow users to log in once and then hop ...
Five good reasons to monitor the behaviour of employees February 2007 In many ways, digital communication is out of control in most organisations. Changes in the business, technology and security landscape have brought about a hitherto neglected issue on employee communications ...
Operating in a security conscious market February 2007 The IT security market continues to be influenced by issues like social engineering, identity theft and compliance with legislation.
Corporate South Africa should associate IT security with more than ...
New generation energy monitoring for mine and metallurgical industries January 2007, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking The mining and metallurgical industries are some of the largest consumers of energy in the country. It thus stands to reason that understanding the consumption of energy in these large concerns has the ...
Power supply for Ex applications December 2006, Turck Banner Southern Africa, Electrical Power & Protection Turck offers a fieldbus solution for the explosion-hazard range with the FISCO power supply, The FISCO power supply is a power conditioner with intrinsically-safe power output and repeater function. Two ...
Super power passwords: the threat from within December 2006 We have all heard the term 'administrative passwords' these are the `super power passwords' that sit behind every workstation – it is the password that once you know it you have access to the network ...
BIAS Consultants: thin-clients are the future 29 November 2006, Computer/Embedded Technology BIAS Consultants is a multivendor service and repair enterprise founded in 2000 that specialises in specific product maintenance solutions for the ATM and point-of-sale (PoS) industry in South Africa ...
Hackers heaven as corporates still leave security back doors open November 2006 Identity and access management technology offers total access control by applying a single security policy to all access methods, globally, which greatly simplifies rollout and enforcement
IT security at home November 2006 Threats to information security are not exclusively targeted at the corporate network.
Many blended threats and attacks of late rely on the curiosity and apathy of home users.
There are some practical ...
UK companies still risk electronic identity theft November 2006 A new survey has shown that 99% of UK companies are still not implementing all the safeguards available to them to manage and control access for the right users to their systems and reduce the risk of ...
South Africa leads global automated forensic DNA analysis Fourth Quarter 2006, News & events The world’s first fully automated system for high volume forensic DNA analysis and profiling went live in Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa in August 2006, putting the Biology Unit of the SAPS Forensic ...
Single sign-on includes physical access August 2006 The convergence of physical and logical security has taken a step forward with the introduction of Imprivata's single sign-on solutions. A US-based company, Imprivata develops single sign-on solutions ...
Open standard predicted to dominate industrial networks August 2006, Schneider Electric South Africa, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking The standards-based Industrial Ethernet will come to dominate virtually every area of industrial network communications, even those where end users are presently satisfied with their fieldbus and similar ...
New interpreter for AS-Interface August 2006, Siemens South Africa, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) now offers a new DP/AS-i Link Advanced for simple linking of the communication networks of Profibus and AS-interface. The routers in accordance with AS-i Spec. 3.0 ...
