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Ellen Messmer
Ellen Messmer

Ellen Messmer

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Recent articles by Ellen Messmer

Cisco MARS shuts out new third-party security devices

November 06, 2009

Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device.

Is the Cisco MARS mission going into abort on non-Cisco security devices?

November 05, 2009

Is Cisco freezing support for any new non-Cisco security devices in the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) appliance?

Healthcare organizations find security, privacy cures

October 29, 2009

Healthcare organizations are energetically seeking cures for managing identity and security in fast-paced hospital environments to help physicians and nurses do their jobs more easily -- and to keep patient data safe.

HITECH Act: What you need to know about new data-breach guidelines

October 29, 2009

Healthcare providers and others handling sensitive patient data are now finding the stakes raised if they suffer a data breach because of a new law known as the "Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act," or HITECH Act.

Symantec ties DLP software to third-party security tools

October 27, 2009

Symantec has updated its Data-Loss Prevention Suite so that if the software finds a data issue that needs fixing, it can apply third-party encryption and digital-rights management (DRM) controls to the problem.

Dasient spots 640,000 malware-infected Web sites

October 27, 2009

Security start-up Dasient says more than 640,000 Web sites out of about 5.8 million pages were infected with malware between July and September of this year.

Trend Micro bolsters virtualization security options

October 26, 2009

Trend Micro's Deep Security firewall/intrusion-protection system software for VMware's ESX server can protect multiple virtual machines on one physical server.

Facial-recognition system can guess your age

October 21, 2009

ORLANDO -- Those advertising in public places would really like to know the age and gender of those viewing their ads to see if they¿re hitting the right demographic. An experimental facial-recognition system developed by NEC does a pretty good job of delivering just that information.

Gartner on cloud security: 'Our nightmare scenario is here now'

October 21, 2009

Virtualization and cloud computing shaking up the old order, and the customary control is slipping away from security managers as the revolution unfolds.

Security software protects mobile and remote Mac, Windows users

October 20, 2009

DeepNines Technologies Tuesday is unveiling a desktop security agent that works in tandem with its content-filtering and anti-malware gateway to protect mobile and remote workers.