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• • 2010 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards

    For the fifth consecutive year, Information Security readers voted to determine the best security products. Nearly 1,500 voters participated this year, rating products in 14 different categories.

  • PCI update could mean clarity or confusion

    What you can expect from this fall's update to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

• • Web 2.0 security threats and how to defend against them by David Sherry

    The collaborative nature of Web 2.0 introduces myriad threats to data that must be proactively countered.

  • Internet privacy tools only go so far

    Tools help protect privacy but safeguarding personal data in the age of Google and Facebook is getting harder.

• Columns

  • Intel acquision of McAfee a head-scratcher

    Embedding security in hardware isn't new, but is it worth an $8 billion investment? Time will tell on the Intel-McAfee acquisition.

  • How to develop a data breach response strategy by Kim Getgen and John W. Woods

    Targeted attacks on corporations and their crown jewels have become routine. Companies need to be prepared.

  • Should enterprises give in to IT consumerization at the expense of security?

    Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum debate the risks associated with employees using personal computing devices.

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  You can fight compliance or embrace it, but one way or the other, you can’t escape it. Increasingly, smart organizations are not just accepting ...

• Essentials: Threat detection

  

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  Antivirus and intrusion prevention aren’t the threat detection stalwarts they used to be. With mobile endpoints and new attack dynamics, enterprises ...

• Managing identities in hybrid worlds

  

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  The world in which successful IAM programs must be implemented is increasingly complex, a mix of legacy on-premise IAM infrastructures, cloud-based ...