Two of the major issues facing CIOs in Singapore are the harmonizing of IT and business strategies, and compliance. Online fraud falls into both of these categories and as a result CIOs are faced with a delicate balancing act – protecting their data assets in a very threatening global fraud environment...

The personal computer is not immune to attacks by malicious users and hackers. This is true even of large enterprises that place their buck on a large network of computers and computer-based operations. Enterprises must take extreme care to see that their intellectual property is well protected from external and even internal threats. Dilip Thomas spoke to Mihai Rusescu on computer security...

Myriad security solutions of varying complexity have been flooding the market for years, yet there remains "critical gaps" in today's infrastructure that still allow some viruses and worms to penetrate the normal defenses provided by antivirus, intrusion prevention/detection, patch management and vulnerability assessment tools. Businesses are increasingly recognizing this "reactive security" reality...

SDA Asia's Indu Britto spoke to Ken Low, Security Lead / Marketing Director, Asia Pacific TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, to find out about the new and emerging trends of security threats that Asia Pacific businesses face, and the steps to be taken while evaluating and selecting security solutions...

Passwords still remain the method of choice for access control in most organisations. To minimize the effort of password authentication, companies should centralize password authentication of multiple applications and/or provide facility to ease the effort on managing password, says SafeNet Vice President of Asia Pacific Mr Humphrey Chan.

"Our vision is all about trustworthy computing, i.e. developing technology that users trust. It encompasses security, privacy, and reliability as the three core pillars of strategy, and business integrity across everything we do in Microsoft”, Microsoft’s Chief Security and Privacy Advisor, Kang Meng Chow shared.