“42% of enterprises expect to increase IT security spending on new technologies by 5% or more.” Hopefully some of this money will go to improved security measures.  IT security spending to increase in 2010: Forrester - Security : News

This is why security matters. If your application development team is not using a software security assurance process, please consider learning about the Microsoft SDL today. www.microsoft.com/sdl . Critical infrastructures under attack - Security : News

  IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

  Enterprise applications to account for majority of revenues over the next five years Mobile cloud app revenues to hit $9.5bn by 2014, says Juniper Research - Computer Business Review : News

  Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- William McCracken, CA Inc.’s new chief executive officer, said he will probably buy a company in the next two months to compete with larger rivals International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp. CA will spend at least...

  Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Jan 27, 2010 11:12 am Ballmer: The Cloud Will Bring New Apps to Law Enforcement - PCWorld

  Following a month of no-cost tire kicking, Microsoft will begin charging customers on Feb. 1 for its new Windows Server-based cloud computing service. By John Foley InformationWeek January 28, 2010 10:17 AM Microsoft To Launch Pennies-Per-Hour...

This is an area where SDL can help secure patient information. Think SDL for HIPPA.   Symantec To Offer Hosted Medical Image Archiving -- Security -- InformationWeek

  By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When Apple announced the name of its tablet computer today — the iPad — my mind immediately went to the feminine hygiene aisle of the drugstore. It turns out I wasn’t alone. The iPad’s Name Makes Some Women Cringe - Bits Blog...

Why GovTrends needs to implement the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for their website development. “Eighteen House Web sites operated by GovTrends experienced similar attacks in August, Ventura said. Pelosi and Boehner noted Thursday that...

  Hackers defaced 49 U.S. House members’ Web sites hours after President Obama delivered his State of the Union address Dec. 28. Hackers mar U.S. House sites after SOTU – Fedline - The Federal Times Blog - federal news, government operations, agency...

  The Black Hat Briefings have become the biggest and the most important security conference series in the world by sticking to our core value: serving the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a...

  “Microsoft blew past expectations for December quarter revenue and profits thanks to huge Windows 7 sales. Specifically, the Windows division achieved $6.9 billion in sales, up 70% year-over-year and beating Wall Street estimates in the low-to...

  A joint investigation has led to revelations that Ministry of Defence staff and military personnel leaked secret information 16 times on social networking websites and internet forums in the last 18 months. Ministry of Defence reveals 16 information...

More on the TechCrunch site getting hacked. TechCrunch hit by second attack in 24 hours, as hackers target site founder on day of expected Apple tablet launch - SC Magazine UK

Howard Schmidt, in his first public appearance as White House cybersecurity coordinator, declared the Internet is more secure than in the recent past and said the government is working to assure emerging technologies such as cloud computing can be deployed...

[January 28, 2010] Facebook’s New Settings Raise Data Privacy Questions By: Brian Moran SQL Server Magazine UPDATE InstantDoc #103504 Web Exclusive from SQL Server Magazine “No matter how much I like Facebook, [Addition OK?]  the total disregard...

“According to the Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report, cloud computing and virtualisation, while offering significant benefits and cost-savings, move servers outside the traditional security perimeter and expand the playing field for cybercriminals...

January 27, 2010 By Joshua Greenbaum “The fact that it’s a Microsoft cloud – built on top of the company’s multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment – will attract a lot to developers looking for a secure, safe, scalable cloud infrastructure, and...

  By AOIFE WHITE AP Business Writer Smith laid out his vision of what regulatory changes are needed to keep pace with a shift toward cloud computing - where software services are used online, on-demand, instead of stored on a user's computer. He...

  Jobs says the iPad is better than laptops and phones (and yeah, netbooks) for consuming video, music, Web browsing and reading e-books (no e-paper, though, so it's not as easy on the eyes as a Kindle). Apple announces iPad tablet computer -- 'far...

  The dirty secret is... it's not that hard to get around this stuff. IOActive—Comprehensive Computer Security Services

  In September 2008, n.runs AG became the only central European company to join the “Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Pro Network”, followed by the implementation of the sector “Security Development Lifecycle” with trainings and consulting...

  New! Two new companies have joined the Microsoft SDL Pro Network The Microsoft SDL Pro Network

  The Microsoft SDL Optimization Model is designed to help development managers and IT policy-makers adopt the Microsoft SDL to reduce customer risk. Download details: Microsoft SDL Optimization Model