The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last week said it plans
to spend $3.7 million to install data encryption software on all
of its laptop and desktop PCs as well as the handhelds and smart
phones issued to agency workers.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will spend $3.7 million
on encryption software following a theft in May of hardware containing
the personal information of 26.5 million veterans and active-duty
military personnel.
The Veterans Affairs Department immediately will begin to upgrade
all of its computers with enhanced data security encryption systems
to protect sensitive data on veterans.
Washington, D.C. - What a mess. At the end of May, the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs acknowledged that thieves had made off with
a laptop containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive
information for as many as 27 million veterans.
Can you still talk about your perimeter security with a straight
face? If you have even one employee with a mobile device connecting
to your network, chances are you answered "No" to that last question.
The mobile devices you know and love are great for productivity,
but they have completely changed the vulnerability state of our
networks. Norm Laudermilch tells you why you should be afraid,
very afraid.
Enterprises need to take control of PDAs, smart phones and other
mobile wireless devices to ensure corporate security.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--In the spring of 2000, Laura Lukaczyk was hard
at work putting together a new venture capital fund. By day, she
consulted for venture giant New Enterprise Associates; by night,
she honed her marketing and fundraising plans.
Virus check in aisle four! It's unlikely you will hear that in
your local supermarket anytime soon. But retailers and vendors
involved in wireless RFID tagging are concerned that the tagging
devices may provide a direct line through the supply chain for
viruses and malicious code.
What is believed to be the first instance of a mobile phone virus
in the U.S. reportedly occurred in an electronics store in Santa
Monica, Calif.
With a multi-million dollar investment in Trust Digital, BCE
Capital capitalizes on a great market opportunity in smart computing
devices.
The many gadgets carried around by workers today
pose a real security risk to organizations and require action,
session attendees at a security conference agreed Tuesday.
The portability of handhelds makes them attractive
to business users, but it also makes them more likely to be lost
or stolen or for data to be corrupted.
Wireless vendors are rolling out a new generation
of handheld computers called smartphones for corporate users, but
many network executives say they won't consider them until the
means to manage and secure them are clear.
We often talk about mobile device security in
terms of the latest worm, virus or attack that the "bad guys" are
planning to launch onto the Palm, BlackBerry or Pocket PC devices.
Companies looking to protect data on mobile client
devices such as notebooks, handheld devices and smart phones are
getting more options to choose from.
Companies looking to protect sensitive data on
stolen gadgets are taking a page from Hollywood, with hard drives
that destroy themselves when picked up by a thief, software that
remotely zaps documents from a desktop computer and technology
that scrubs clean handheld devices when the wrong password is entered
too many times.
As electronic products shrink in size, they grow
in allure, not only to consumers but also to thieves. Lightweight
and easy to conceal hand-helds, laptops and music players are sleek,
valuable and often carried around as casually as a set of keys
With the ability to send and receive pictures
and e-mail, cell phones become more and more like computers.
Nick Magliato, CEO of the leading enterprise
mobile security company Trust Digital, today appeared on CNN's
'Wolf Blitzer Reports' and 'Anderson Cooper 360°' segments.
Hand-held devices such as Palm Pilots, Pocket
PCs, RIMs and smartphones have quickly become the tools of choice
for medical personnel. Clinicians, physicians, nurses, administrators,
pharmacists and researchers as well as life sciences and pharmaceutical
companies rely on these devices because of their portability and
ease of access.
Tech stocks had a second straight winning year
in 2004 and the IPO market came back with a vengeance. So it shouldn't
be a big surprise that venture capitalists, eager to find the proverbial
Next Big Thing, were also stepping up their pace of investments
in private companies.
Trust Digital recently landed a pain-free $3.5
million in its first fund-raising round from Core Capital Partners,
in what could be viewed as a classic courtship in wireless financing.
Trust Digital Inc., a McLean software company,
is getting a new chief executive and $3.1 million in new investments
as it tries to expand its business making security software for
wireless devices.
