BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Security
- a tradable financial asset, for example, a bond, stock, or a warrant
- the collateral for a loan or other borrowing
Wiktionary Definition for: Security
- #the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially
- #something that secures
- #an organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order
- #something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation
- # finance proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments
- # finance property temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan
Additional Resources
- Chief information security officers answer 4 burning questions
- CYBERSECURITY 6 chief information security officers share how they plan to keep government data and computers safe in the face of constantly changing risks, red tape and tight budgets CISOs assess the assessors When the CISO title first started appearing on agency organization charts about seven years ago, the job...
- News items 2009-11-15
- BMW serves, protects with 7 Series High Security Model
- Munich. With the launch of a new generation of high-security sedans based on the BMW 7 Series, the leading supplier of premium vehicles meets the most stringent safety requirements for persons at risk while travelling in their vehicles. Both, the BMW 760Li High Security and the BMW 750Li High Security...
- News items 2009-08-10
- SOA Security: Good Enough and Getting Better
- CIO - Security is not a reason to stay away from SOA. Although full SOA security maturity is yet to come, 30 percent of organizations now use SOA for external integration with customers and partners. For standard Web services using SOAP, WS-Security has achieved critical mass as a foundational standard....
- News items 2009-08-20
- Better security boosts agencies' use of wireless devices
- MOBILE AND WIRELESS Stronger policies and practices overcome comcerns about mobile communications In what might have been a symbolic event in the development of mobile communications, President Barack Obama, for whom security is paramount, kept his BlackBerry after taking office — but not before it was locked down with strong...
- News items 2009-08-23
- Microsoft Trying To Change Its Security Identity
- Microsoft is trying to earn respect as a security applications vendor, a difficult proposition for a company best known among IT administrators and security experts as the company that gets around to patching vulnerabilities in its software on the second Tuesday of every month. Microsoft is making...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- A CIO's Defense Against Security Risks
- Information has become the lifeline for business sustainability and competitive advantage. In order to capitalize on this information, it is critical that CIOs address how to cost-effectively store, archive and retrieve what has become a virtual explosion of information within their organizations. CIOs must also consider how to protect and...
- News items 2009-11-18
- McAfee Says Midsize Businesses Face Security Budget Cuts, Challenges
- McAfee reports on the IT security struggles of midsize businesses. Though more than half of businesses surveyed said they have seen more security incidents in 2009 than 2008, 75 percent reported having to cut or freeze their IT security budgets.Midsize businesses are slashing their security budgets even as cyber-threats continue...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Taking some sweat out of security compliance
- Solution Spotlight New software tools can help agencies meet some security mandates. But what about FISMA? Security Content Automation Protocol backgrounder When it comes to complying with federal security mandates, chief information security officers contend with a set of arduous tasks that could rival the 12 labors of Hercules. Under...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
- Friday's release of the new version of the Mac OS, dubbed Snow Leopard, could include some security features that would make it secure, or at least push it closer to the level of security that Vista and Windows 7 have, experts said this week. Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief,...
- News items 2009-08-27
- IBM Reveals New Security Product for Virtual Environments
- IBM announced plans for a new virtualization security product that extends protection to multiple layers of the virtual infrastructure by integrating with VMware's VMsafe technology.IBM is talking up virtualization security with a new product aimed at protecting enterprise virtual infrastructures.According to IBM, the product - known as IBMVirtual Server Security...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Social Security: The Red Ink Starts Next Year
- Just in case there was any doubt that Social Security won't be able to keep the promises it is making to anyone younger than, say, 55, the Congressional Budget Office now projects that Social Security will start operating at a deficit next year. Neither the CBO nor Social Security itself...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- More security breaches hit midsized companies
- More midsized companies are being attacked by cybercriminals at the same time they're spending less on security, says a McAfee report released Wednesday.Across the world, more than half of the 900 midsized businesses (51 to 1,000 employees) surveyed by McAfee for its report, The Security Paradox, said they've seen an...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Windows 7 UAC Ineffective Security Solution for Malware, Sophos Says
- A researcher at Sophos put Windows 7's User Account Control feature to the test, and found the technology failed to block numerous pieces of malware. Microsoft however stressed UAC is only one part of Windows 7 security.A researcher at Sophos called the User Account Control feature in Windows 7 ineffective...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Windows 7 UAC Is Ineffective Security Solution for Malware, Sophos Says
- A researcher at Sophos reports putting Windows 7's User Account Control feature to the test and finding the technology failed to block numerous pieces of malware. Microsoft, however, stresses that UAC is only one part of Windows 7's security.A researcher at Sophos called the UAC feature in Windows 7 ineffective...
- News items 2009-11-05
- BlackBerry security exec warns of smartphone DDoS attacks
- CIO - BlackBerry and smartphone security in general hasn't garnered much attention or concern over the past few year, at least from a consumer, or user, perspective. Enterprises have been invested in mobile device security since the advent of the PDA. But that's going to have to change, thanks largely...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Symantec Warns Of Rogue Security Software
- Cybercriminals are increasingly using online scare tactics to persuade users to buy rogue security software, according to a new report from Symantec. To convince users to install rogue software, cybercriminals place ads on websites that prey on users' fears of security threats. The ads generally include false claims such as...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Cisco to Acquire ScanSafe for Web Security
- Cisco is set to acquire SAAS security vendor ScanSafe for roughly $183 million. The move, Cisco says, will help add to the Web security capabilities the company acquired when it bought IronPort two years ago.Cisco Systems announced plans to acquire software-as-a-service vendor ScanSafe to broaden its presence in the cloud and...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Revised Bill Still Gives Obama Unprecedented Cyber Security Powers
- After receiving a hailstorm of criticism for his first version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, Sen. Jay Rockefeller revises legislation to encounter even more criticism. In both versions, the controversy swirls around the president's ability to shut down private Internet networks in the case of a national emergency.Sen. Jay...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Revised Bill Still Gives Obama Unprecedented Cyber-security Powers
- After receiving a hailstorm of criticism for his first version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, Sen. Jay Rockefeller revises the legislation to encounter even more criticism. In both versions, the controversy rests on the president's ability to shut down private Internet networks in the case of a national emergency.Sen....
- News items 2009-08-31
- Microsoft, Security Dynamics & RSA sign. (Security Dynamics Technologies Inc.; RSA Data Security; joint marketing agreement)
- Microsoft has signed wide-ranging agreement with world-leading data security company Security Dynamics and its subsidiary, RSA Data Security, under the terms of which the companies will join forces in marketing data security products. Microsoft has signed wide-ranging agreement with world-leading data security...
- Research articles 1996-11-20
