Content Management Security News & Articles

For enterprises that border on the complacent when it comes to security, the latest report from IBM (news, site) which shows document format vulnerabilities and related attacks are soaring --  particularly with PDFs -- might act as a wake-up call.

A new content filtering and threat protection Web gateway appliance - V10000 - from US data and email security firm Websense will allow companies access Web 2.0 sites safely without worries about data loss, inappropriate content concerns or productivity and liability threats.

The company says the new gateway will not only block malware on individual web pages, but that it will allow users to access and use Web 2.0 sites where sections of the site are infected and at the same time block the malicious content from accessing the user’s company network.

Scrubbing (redacting) a sensitive document for electronic publication may seem like a simple process. Yet, as many high profile corporations and government agencies have shown, it's not as simple as it first appears.

The Informative Graphics Group's latest white paper, "Electronic Redaction: How to Properly Redact Documents," can help your organization's next redacted release be far more secure and far less embarrassing.

In its biannual report released Feb. 2, 2009, IBM's X-Force research group pointed out significant security threat trends as we enter 2009, and paid particular attention to vulnerabilities found in PHP web content management systems such as Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3 and WordPress.

The report is pretty. It has over a hundred pages. It has lots of nifty charts and graphs. But let's take a closer look at the what the net impact is.