Friday, February 8, 2008

The Sage

McAfee, Inc. recently announced its second issue of sage, a semi-annual security journal designed to update and inform technical personnel and security executives on cutting-edge topics that can help them make better informed security decisions. the new issue of Sage includes articles from an all-star cast of McAfee researchers, managers and evangelists, on topics including cybercrime, Microsoft Windows Vista security, spyware, spam, cell phone security, data leakage and security risk management.
Sage is available for download through the McAfee Threat Center. You can access it at http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp.
Sage examines the near-term future of the security business--the threats, defenses and issues security professional will face over the next five years. Today, the majority of cybercriminals target PC users, but we can expect more attackers to branch out to other areas of technology, such as voice over Internet protocol and radio frequency identifications (RFID), as those technologies become more widely adopted. This journal also gives insight on the future of securing applications which is one of the biggest concerns of the manufacturers and the consumers.

Although programmers add some security measures during development, new spyware technology often far surpasses the best planning of even the most diligent engineers, opening new fronts of attacks. Spyware will follow us into new technologies, such as Bluetooth and RFID. This has also been taken into consideration in Sage besides topics like Vista and its security in the near future which is actually a great concern as more and more hackers will try to disrupt it as time goes by.



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