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LOWELL, Mass. - Message Secure Corp. is now offering its credit union and community bank clients a secure online document exchange service called PrivateExpress. The managed security services specialist says the hosted service operates similarly to e-mail and offers user authentication, encryption, digital signatures, content verification and other techniques to...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - An upgraded e-mail firewall at First Tech Credit Union is now putting the brakes on as many as 140,000 incoming suspect messages a month. The MailGate Email Firewall and Secure Messenger system from Tumbleweed Communications Corp. also is providing secure outbound transmission, including encrypting and routing of...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 2005 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey from the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's Computer Intrusion Squad in San Francisco finds that financial institutions spent the least per employee on IT security while state governments spent the most in the past year. The 10th-annual report,...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - New Forrester report, "Revised ISO 17799 Boosts Information Security Management Relevance," Forrester explains the evolution of the latest ISO/IEC 17799:2005 standard and emphasizes it is not a catch-all, but a framework. The second version of ISO/IEC 17799 (2005 version) "provides a strong and expanded framework for information...

AUSTIN, Texas - Credit union members of the Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association (www.cuispa.org) now can take advantage of a service that, for one year, provides free e-mail alerts about security vulnerabilities that could affect them. The Austin-based CUISPA will host a server that includes the Xacta Vulnerability Awareness...