Paul Roberts

In a sign that it is continuing to digest the technology it swallowed with three high-profile purchases last July, Symantec Corp. announced an upgrade to the DeepSight Threat Management System, which it acquired with its purchase of SecurityFocus Inc. in July.

Responding to the rapid spread of the Slammer worm through a software vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 database product, Microsoft Corp. posted pre-release versions of a number of utilities that can ferret out systems that are susceptible to Slammer.

Swedish telecommunications equipment giant Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson announced a new president and chief executive officer (CEO) Thursday in the latest bid to turn around its moribund business, appointing Carl-Henric Svanberg to the top post, effective April 8, 2003.

After removing links to a security patch that caused the NT 4.0 operating system to fail, Microsoft Corp. on Friday posted an updated patch that fixes the NT 4.0 problem.

A new software application by Netegrity Inc. is intended to make it easier for organizations to securely exchange user-identity and sign-on information using SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language).

Responding to the rapid spread of the Slammer worm through a software vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 database product, Microsoft Corp. posted pre-release versions of a number of utilities that can ferret out systems that are susceptible to Slammer.

Despite sluggishness elsewhere in the information technology sector, the market for security-related hardware, software, and services will continue to experience healthy growth, swelling to more than US$45 billion in revenue by 2006 from just US$17 billion in 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by International Data Corp. (IDC).

Despite sluggishness elsewhere in the information technology sector, the market for security-related hardware, software, and services will continue to experience healthy growth, swelling to more than US$45 billion in revenue by 2006 from just US$17 billion in 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by International Data Corp. (IDC).