In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Jim Stickley, CTO, Vice President of Engineering, & Co-Founder at TraceSecurity, to discuss physically breaking into his one thousandth bank.

We talk about how TraceSecurity physically breaks into banks, financial institutions and other organizations. While Jim is always successful in the compromise of a target's data (except for maybe one), we talk about the best ways to protect your organization from professionals as well as opportunistic data thieves.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Tom Russell, Senior Director of the Security Technology Group at Cisco, to discuss new product announcements in the ASA product line.

In our talk we take a look at the newly released ASA 5505 and ASA 5550 from Cisco, and see how these new technology integrate with your remote and local infrastructure.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Rohit Khetrapal, Director of the Clean Access division at Cisco to discuss a new network access control announcement.

In our talk we take a look at the newly released NAC 4.0 Appliance from Cisco, and how this new technology integrates with your infrastructure better than technologies from other vendors, at least if you've got a Cisco-based infrastructure, and maybe even if you don't.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock to discuss a way of stopping identity theft and fraud proactively.

In our short talk we discuss how LifeLock works and how it can save companies from employee productivity loss by preventing identity theft, and how lifelock backs up that claim with a million dollar guarantee.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Brain Geffert, partner at Deloitte and Touche, to talk about their recently released security survey, which I've included here.

The survey touches on a variety of topics and we talk about a number of them, including the security issues that you should be watching out for, even if you think you've got your infrastructure nailed down.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Barry Johnson, CEO of Privaris to discuss a new biometric device.

The Privaris plusID literally opens several types of doors, all with a push of a button and a swipe of a finger. This single personal authentication device allows an authenticated user access to multiple physical sites, computers and networks.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Ross Altman, CTO for Business Integration Platforms at Sun and we have a leisurely conversation regarding Service Oriented Architecture or SOA security.

In our twenty minute conversation we discuss the fact that SOA security touches almost every part of your web infrastructure and what you don't know about SOA security can hurt you.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Joe Lowry, a marketing engineer for Cymphonix. In our fifteen minute conversation we talk about the Cymphonix smart gateway appliance with layer 7 packet scanning.

You can follow along with my demo by going to their site to take a look at traffic from users, applications, and threats.

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In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Gordon Rapkin, CEO of Protegrity to discuss the recent AIG data breach and loss.

Gordon believes this type of data loss won't stop happening until a cultural shift occurs, and I tend to agree with him. Listen to this fifteen minute podcast to find out how I'm losing brain cells every time this kind of an event happens and how he's saving his.

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In case you haven't heard:

Insurance giant American International Group said it has lost personal identifying information on about 970,000 consumers through a burglary at an undisclosed office in the Midwest.

The insurer said the break-in occurred March 31 and that it alerted police to the loss of a laptop computer and a file server with insurance applicants' personal records. But the company acknowledged that it has not yet alerted consumers about their possible vulnerability to identity thieves. AIG said it plans to mail out advisories to the affected consumers by the end of this week.

In today's cast I had a chance to catch up with Peter Eicher, Senior Product Manager from Microsoft to discuss Microsoft's newly released Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager.

In our thirty minute discussion we go over how these products can protect your enterprise from viruses using several simultaneous anti virus engines, and also protect against worms, spam, and inappropriate content.

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The presentation can be found here.