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• Making sense of mobile device, app, and information management

  Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful -- and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information, but the variety of platforms, the fact many are employee-owned, and uneven security capabilities all add up to a real -- sometimes impossible -- challenge to manage them in the same way as the corporate PC.

• Full visibility into high-performance nets: Demand 100% packet capture

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• U.K. survey: SharePoint users freely ignore security measures

  Copying documents out of Microsoft SharePoint to less secure media such as email and thumb drives is common among users of the collaboration platform, at least in the U.K.

• Protect iPad data without hobbling users

  Concerned about sensitive corporate data that lives on employees' iPads finding their way to places they shouldn't? Symantec says it has an answer to that risk, and it won't get in users' way. In early 2012, it plans to deliver an extension to its data loss prevention (DLP) product that enables DLP filtering from the iPad or, more precisely, from files, emails, and any other communication sent via HTTP and HTTPS from an iPad through the network.

• Data loss prevention urged as security focus

  Data loss prevention remains a priority security concern for Australian companies, despite reported slowed growth in the area, according to some security experts.

• No classified data on misplaced USB stick: Defence

  Australia’s data loss prevention and encryption vendors will no doubt be salivating at the Defence’s confirmation that a USB stick allegedly found by a radio announcer on a Qantas flight does indeed contain Defence information.

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  Aussie developer claims cure for ‘Wikileaks syndrome’

  Confidential information released via Wikileaks has sent governments around the world into a spin and put businesses on high alert but one Sydney-based software developer claims to have a solution to the perennial problem of data leakage.

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  Security overhaul on the cards at Centrelink

  A major upgrade of ICT security is on the cards at Centrelink, with the welfare agency planning to implement data loss prevention (DLP) and endpoint protection (EP) for a whopping 28,000 users and 42,000 workstations.

• Too many data-loss prevention tools become shelfware, says Gartner

  The good, the bad and the ugly of data-loss prevention tools and technologies got a solid once over from Gartner analyst Eric Ouellet, who spared no punches during his presentation on the topic during the first day of Gartner's Security and Risk Management Summit.

• Enterprise rights management and keeping data in-house

  Several years ago, Flextronics was struggling with a thorny security issue: figuring out how to prevent sensitive and proprietary information from going astray once it was in the hands of authorized users.

• Websense debuts unified security architecture

  Websense Tuesday announced Triton, a unified security architecture, which merges its data-loss prevention and e-mail security products, keeping much of the security-as-a-service approach it already supports, but with a common management and reporting console.

• Sidekick data restoration still not underway

  By the time lost Sidekick data reappears, will anybody care? Of course, but the longer it takes Microsoft to restore data lost Oct. 5 in a massive server crash, the less the data is worth.

• Ballmer: Sidekick outage 'not good'

  Las Vegas: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterized the recent Sidekick data loss episode as "not good," and said he believes all the data will be recovered, but added that Microsoft will have to be more forthcoming in explaining to enterprise customers why a similar situation won’t occur with Microsoft’s online services.

• Data leaks more common than you think

  Take a look at the number of reported data leaks in the US and Australia and you could be forgiven for thinking that we’re a pretty secure lot. But the level of Australian incidents is more likely to be on par with the US – it’s just that you don’t hear about it.

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  Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names

  In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.