Information Security



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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Lost property: 40% of mobile devices left at airports will never be reclaimed
October 2006
A survey into ‘Mobile device security at airports’ shows the Brits are lackadaisical – when it comes to losing mobile devices compared to many of their counterparts around the globe. British travellers ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Combating identity theft
July 2006
Identity theft is the major security concern facing organisations today. Indeed, for the banking industry, it is the number one security priority for 2006. In a recent survey1 of security budget holders ...

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How to justify expenditure to solve a problem you do not or rarely have
July 2006
A major challenge for any security team these days is to justify allocating IT budget to address a problem that rarely occurs. Generally, more tactical operational tasks take priority over security projects ...

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Top 10 security predictions for 2006
March 2006
As the importance of information security continues to rise, organisations around the globe are looking at revising their existing strategies to ensure that their information assets are optimally secured. ...

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Network appliances arrive bearing gifts for security managers
March 2006
There is a technological revolution taking place in the design of integrated security systems, and once you understand it you will want to be part of it. A scant five years ago, the more advanced security ...

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Senior executives information security survival kit
March 2006
Specific information security risks for senior executives    The following examples show how senior executives can be exposed to information security risks:    * Lack of appreciation of what risks are most ...

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The convergence of physical security and IT: business rules and the integration of physical and logical security
February 2006
Without sufficient security measures - both physical and logical - data can be stolen without the data owner's knowledge

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Clearline SS40 range gets SABS rating
25 January 2006, Clearline Protection Systems, News
Clearline recently obtained full accreditation to manufacture a range of surge arresters to SANa643-1 which carry the SABS mark. Pictured here receiving the certificate is Wynand Brits, principal auditor ...

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