In Security Today:
Cisco acquires WheelGroup
Warning: Is your CRL up-to-date?
Network Associates in $300M merger with Trusted Information
Check Point to meld software
Dealing With the Key-Recovery 'Devil'
Feuding standards causes rift in smart-card market
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Cisco acquires WheelGroup
(C|NET)
Cisco Systems (CSCO) today continued its push into the Internet security
market, announcing that it will acquire WheelGroup for $124 million in
stock.
Full Article: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19273,00.html
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Warning: Is your CRL up-to-date?
Digital certificates hold promise, but managers must monitor revocation
status
(PC Week)
IT managers planning to deploy digital certificates as part of their
public-key architecture should be warned that poorly managed, revoked
digital certificates are a potential security threat.
Full Article: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0216/16cert.html
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Network Associates in $300M merger with Trusted Information
(PC Week)
Continuing its aggressive expansion into the security market, Network
Associates Inc. has gobbled up Trusted Information Systems Inc. in a
$300 million stock swap.
Full Article: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0223/23mnetw.html
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Check Point to meld software
(C|NET)
In a major strategic pronouncement, Check Point Software Technologies
(CHKPF) today said it will merge its leading firewall software,
FireWall-1, and its bandwidth management software, FloodGate-1, into a
single product by year's end.
Full Article: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19360,00.html
See Related "Consolidating for security" at:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,19335,00.html
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Dealing With the Key-Recovery 'Devil'
(Wired)
"Government key recovery is the devil."
So read the projection screen in the main conference room here Thursday
at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, where a panel
discussed the outlook for encryption-control legislation in Congress
this year.
Full Article: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/10437.html
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Feuding standards causes rift in smart-card market
(InfoWorld Electric)
A split emerged in the smart-card industry this week as players formed
into two distinct camps backing different smart-card standards.
Full Article:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980220.ehsmart.htm
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