For those that know, click fraud is an irritation to be minimized through consultation with experts. For those that don't, click fraud could decimate advertising budgets and even cripple companies. William Knight investigates this silent parasite.
For those that know, click fraud is an irritation to be minimized through consultation with experts. For those that don't, click fraud could decimate advertising budgets and even cripple companies. William Knight investigates this silent parasite.
For almost 300 major organizations, including half of the Global 500 and many of the world's largest corporations and public sector organizations, the Information Security Forum (ISF) plays a significant role in the fight against growing threats to their information. The ISF's Andy Jones writes.
France has a radiant history in terms of innovation and specifically, the smart card. However, with more security companies relying on local state sector work, and with the language barrier still as prominent as ever, France needs to merge its superior technology with typically US strengths in marketing, sales and service.
While outsourcing of all forms of IT services and indeed business processes is an unstoppable trend, the outsourcing of information security is still a relatively undeveloped area. However, many now believe that the combination of shortage of skills, and the difficulty of keeping on top of an ever changing threat landscape, is rapidly changing that.
Robert Gleichauf is responsible for the development of secure network infrastructures across Cisco's product line. Most recently, he led the development of Cisco's Network Admission Control (NAC) initiative.
He has led other security initiatives at Cisco, including overseeing the R&D for Cisco's Intrusion Detection System (IDS) product line, and the migration of IDS technology into the Cisco Catalyst 6000 platform.
Gleichauf joined Cisco with the WheelGroup acquisition in 1998, where he was the head of product engineering. Prior to WheelGroup, he was a senior engineering manager at startup IQ Software, which developed database report writing tools.
He spoke at the Gartner IT Security Summit in London in the autumn, and spoke to Brian McKenna for Infosecurity Today about the trials of decrypting data in crisis situations, security officers of a new type, and the challenge of vendor interoperability.
The security market is consolidating. Bigger IT fish are eating smaller IT security fish. If you're a CEO who gets bought out, what do you do next?
Patrick Clawson, 42, was appointed CEO of PatchLink, patch and vulnerability management company, in August. He believes that his previous role and success as chairman and CEO of CyberGuard have stood him in good stead to drive the next wave of growth for PatchLink. Eleanor Dallaway met him to talk objectives, successes, threats, and the IT security industry in general.
The $600 billion prescription drugs pharmaceutical industry has a problem: no-one understands it fully, mainly because its complexity produces information overload. The result is a fractal — the patterns look familiar, but the details are all special cases. Ian Grant surveys.