[ISN] Security UPDATE -- RSA Conference 2005 Highlights -- February 23, 2005

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1. In Focus: RSA Conference 2005 Highlights

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==== 1. In Focus: RSA Conference 2005 Highlights ====
   by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net

RSA Conference 2005 took place last week in San Francisco with more 
than 275 vendors and more than 200 conference sessions. The last I 
heard, conference organizers were saying that 13,000 people attended, 
but that count wasn't official. One thing I am sure about is that 
with that many vendors and conference sessions, nobody saw 
everything! 

There were some interesting announcements at the conference, so if 
you were not among the thousands who did attend, then here are a few 
of the highlights from the show: 

In his keynote address, Computer Associates (CA) Executive Vice 
President Russell Artzt pointed out that business executives must now 
pay very close attention to security concerns at all levels of the 
company and be ready to thoroughly account for their decision-making 
processes, primarily due to government regulations such as Sarbanes-
Oxley. 

Cisco Systems announced a new phase of its Self-Defending Network 
technology. The company said that the new Adaptive Threat Defense 
phase addresses threats at multiple layers, simplifies architectural 
designs, and provides enterprisewide containment and control.
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RSA Security announced the Security Authentication Roadmap, in which 
the company will provide a standards-based, enterprise-enabled 
platform for overall credentials management using strong 
authentication. The company also announced the RSA Authentication 
Service, which will help provide consumers with "enterprise-class 
protection" during their online activities; an RSA SecurID Appliance 
that provides two-factor authentication for businesses with fewer 
than 1,000 employees; and RSA SecurID SID700 and SID800 USB-enabled 
authentication devices. 
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced in his keynote speech that 
the company will launch new security initiatives that include various 
software updates, such as a future release of Internet Explorer (IE) 
7.0 for Windows XP systems, the scheduled March release of a beta 
version of its unified Windows Update Service (WUS), Microsoft 
Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0, the release to manufacturing 
of Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 Enterprise 
Edition, and Rights Management Services (RMS) Service Pack 1 (SP1). 
Gates also announced the formation of the Secure Software Forum in 
partnership with several other companies and the worldwide expansion 
of its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program to help developers 
communicate with each other about developing secure applications. 
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Shavlik Technologies announced several new products, including NetChk 
Epicenter, a common GUI for NetChk applications that lets 
administrators scan numerous systems and applications, view scan 
results, and correct security problems. The company also announced 
that it will release patch-management solutions for Unix and Linux 
platforms--including AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, and Solaris--sometime 
in the second quarter of 2005. The company also announced NetChk 
Spyware and NetChk Shares, which lets administrators discover shared 
resources on one or more computers, remove shared resources, restrict 
anonymous access, and test for weak passwords. 
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Identity management solution provider Abridean joined the BlackBerry 
ISV Alliance Program, thereby forming a relationship with Research in 
Motion (RIM). Abridean will help simplify and automate management of 
Blackberry user accounts in BlackBerry Enterprise Server in 
combination with other messaging and enterprise systems.
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DesktopStandard released PolicyMaker Application Security, which 
helps adminitrators enforce the practice of giving users the minimum 
privileges that they need on Windows-based desktops and selectively 
elevate privileges for users who need them.
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Priva Technologies announced an upgrade to its Cleared Security 
Platform, which uses multifactor authentication in a single-point, 
end-to-end solution. The product now supports authentication for Web 
services, Microsoft .NET technology, email signing, and public key 
infrastructure (PKI). 
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Seaway Networks released a pretty slick product: the Trident NCA2000-
L7P Intrusion Prevention Accelerator Card. The Intrusion Detection 
System/Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) card can be used to 
convert servers into filtering appliances. The board provides 2Gbps 
of full duplex data processing and pattern matching, including 
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Lyris Technologies improved the detection of phishing and other email-
related threats in its MailShield Server product with an upgrade to
the embedded Mailshell SpamCompiler engine. Lyris said that MailShield
Server is available for Windows and Solaris platforms, and a
MailShield Pro version for Windows can record all SMTP transactions
and provide a searchable audit trail of all incoming and outgoing
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And last, but certainly not least, Intense School presented its Live 
Online Professional Hacking class, led by Ralph Echemendia. The class 
teaches participants how to think like an intruder so they can 
protect themselves proactively rather than having to react 
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Identity Web Services Framework Now Supports SAML 2.0
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