Stories about: Citadel

OpenGroupware.org is relatively unknown outside the Open Source developer scene, yet it's one of the oldest projects around: This groupware has origins dating back to 1996.

Software agents -- long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices -- have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments.

News that 3Com may be an acquisition target is not surprising, given the company's depressed stock price and investor impatience, analysts say.

Security vendors, Symantec and McAfee, may soon find Microsoft competing with them in a new market.

McAfee will pay US$60 million to acquire Citadel Security Software, a producer of security compliance products that ensure corporate employees are using assigned IT policies.

Vulnerability management starts with tools that assess security in network gear and applications, but it's a road that forks, one way leading to host- or agent-based scanners and the other to network-based or agentless scanners.

Citadel Security Software has announced an insurance plan under which customers that use its Hercules vulnerability remediation product will be reimbursed for the cost of restoring systems or data if their networks are attacked and Citadel fails to meet its service-level agreements.

A pair of vulnerability-assessment and remediation tool vendors are separately upgrading their products so that customers more easily can prioritize which networked systems need to be fixed.

A computer security company warned on Wednesday that it discovered a new automated tool for exploiting the recently publicized WebDAV vulnerability affecting Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT and 2000 operating systems.

Technology trade shows have always been occasions for companies to trot out their new products for display to a curious public. Increasingly, however, they are also a forum in which industry organisations publicise their latest initiatives, guidelines and working groups.

Less than halfway through the first calendar month of 2003, and already end-users have had to stave off computer threats such as a DHCP multiple buffer overflow vulnerability, the Sobig worm, the Lirva worm, and remnants of the Yaha virus. Blended and longer lifespan malicious code attacks are expected to run rampant in the New Year, but they are far from the only dangers angling to make life miserable for security administrators.