A security researcher has demonstrated that it's possible to put together a Bluetooth sniffer out of an inexpensive wireless dongle, raising fresh questions about the security of the wireless technology. Security researchers have demonstrated a number of methods for cracking Bluetooth devices-- which increasingly include laptops and other ...

hick client-based business applications require rigid security regulations where different classes of users receive a predetermined set of access rights. This article explains how to build a flexible security model for Rich-Client Platform (RCP) applications by leveraging features provided by the Eclipse platform. Importance of RCP in applications Controlling access to workbench ...

hick client-based business applications require rigid security regulations where different classes of users receive a predetermined set of access rights. This article explains how to build a flexible security model for Rich-Client Platform (RCP) applications by leveraging features provided by the Eclipse platform. Importance of RCP in applications Controlling access to workbench ...

Sun believes in security through openness. Security standards should be open to being created, tested, analyzed and challenged by a huge community of intelligent programmers, developers and security experts. Sun  announced support for leading security and identity open standards efforts, demonstrating its continued commitment to building security into the underlying standards ...

Java Card technology is one of the best secure authentication technologies for trust, privacy and verification of identity on the network, deployed in over 500 million smart card and mobile phone environments around the world. Sun is building on this success and applying its expertise to the Windows environment though ...

Three architectural pillars underscore Sun's infinite access security model: strong authentication, identity management, and risk management through containment. Strong Authentication: multi-factor authentication assigns a verifiable identity to a user, data, application or service. Once authentication occurs, the identity management infrastructure can authorize or refuse entry to or ...

Sun's new infinite access security model is designed to make security integrated, invisible and infinite for customers. It helps create a managed risk environment that allows access to be appropriate and acceptable to the service providers in enterprises, consumer and governmental organizations. Integrated: Systems integration across physical ...

Enterprise Security Architecture addresses a wide-range of issues in addition to the benefits provided by a general IT Architecture, including: Risk-Based Cost/Benefit Effectiveness The reduction of risk (the benefit) should be appropriate to the costs of acquisition, development, installation, administration and operation. Enabling Business Information security is the enabling technology of digital business.  The ...

Security Architecture addresses the issues and provides all of the benefits of IT Architecture as described in the "Benefits of Architecture" section together with a broad spectrum of security and risk-specific business issues. An Holistic Approach “Security is only as strong as the weakest link” is a commonly-used adage when discussing information ...

Managing Complexity One of the key functions of ‘architecture’ as a tool of the modern business is to provide a framework within which complexity can be managed successfully.  As the size and complexity of a project grows, many designers and design influences must all work as a team to create something ...

IBM will also join the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) program and plans to integrate certain IBM Tivoli security management software with Cisco infrastructure products that are involved in the program. The Cisco NAC program fosters enhanced security within the network by allowing customers to examine the ...

Businesses can now use the embedded security chip, an IBM ThinkVantage Technology used in IBM ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, to connect seamlessly and with enhanced security to both wired and wireless networks by using new Cisco virtual private network (VPN) solutions. By using encrypted authentication information ...