Security
Giga, 9/9/03: Clarifying Responsibilities Is One Key to Outsourcing IT Security Tasks Successfully
Steve Hunt
Contributing Analyst: Julie Giera
Since we outsource much of our IT to hosting services and service providers, what should we do to ensure the effectiveness of our IT security?
The keys to your success will be a clearly worded service-level agreement and language in your contract regarding security. You should also assign an individual who serves as security “owner” or champion. In a well-managed outsourced arrangement, the risks are not significantly greater than managing all security tasks internally. So success is quite achievable.
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eWeek, 9/10/03: Could Another SoBig Attack Be Coming This Week?
By Sebastian Rupley
August woke people to some new antics from virus writers. As the Blaster and SoBig worms spread to millions of PCs, concerns were raised—particularly by SoBig—about follow-on attacks that would coincide with September 11. Some analysts are worried that new strains of SoBig or features of the original variants could be slated to strike this week. This is a good time to take precautions.
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The Register, 9/10/03: MS amends anti-Blaster fix
By John Leyden
Microsoft today issued an amended antidote to the Windows vulnerability infamously exploited by the Blaster worm.
Today's fix for flaws with Microsoft's implementation of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) within its Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) framework supersede a patch Redmond issued in July. It also replaces a fix (MS01-48) involving a DoS risk MS issued two years ago.
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Collaborative Technologies
The New York Times, 9/11/03: Getting More From a PC's Spare Time
By JOAN OLECK
SOME people talk, sometimes in jest, about leaving their brains to science. But others have found a more immediate way to help: lending their computers' brains.
Millions of PC users are volunteering their terminals' unused processing power to help analyze data and perform computer simulations for research into an AIDS cure, climate prediction or the mysteries of biological proteins.
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