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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...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Technology decision-makers across the U.S. are only half-interested in outsourcing network security, and not very many at all are willing to do the same with their regulatory or incident response activities, a new survey shows. This graphic from Forrester Research shows how a focus on incident response...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Corillian has become the first U.S. online banking firm to receive BS:7799 certification. It is a standard that originated out of Britain that covers a company's security management system. It covers 10 control areas: business continuity planning, system access control, system development and maintenance, physical environmental security,...

SAN ANTONIO - Digital Defense's original client has lined up again with the IT security specialist to help get the home "TEAM" off to a good start. San Antonio City Employees Federal Credit Union (SACEFCU) is now among the first to offer to its members the computer security awareness offering...

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union needed a way to securely communicate wire transfers for its members and found the solution in a little box called the SecureMail Gateway from GlobalCerts. The appliance sits on the network and can encrypt and decrypt email going either way on the...

Credit unions continue to find marketing opportunities in all sorts of places. Read about that and more in the special report on pages 22-24.