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Security will be a major focus this week at the giant CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. This year, the annual digital IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security threats facing enterprise networks. Now it's not just data networks that are under attack; VoIP and even paper documents are at risk.Eyeing the growing number of business users of handhelds, Secunet Security Networks, a Germany-based company with a roster of international enterprise customers, will show how a prototype of its Sina VPN software for PDAs and other mobile devices can secure VoIP traffic or remote connections to corporate servers. In addition, the Sina Virtual Workstation 2.0, a version of the software for PCs, will go on sale at the show. Secunet also will show BioMiddle, a middleware platform that allows buyers to mix and match components from different vendors securely to build a biometric identification system.

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Fed CIO's top concern - Security:

Chief information officers (CIOs) at U.S. government agencies say they have made progress on several key issues, including IT security and modernizing their IT infrastructure, but still face major challenges in security and other areas, according to a survey released Tuesday."They want to move to a state where they're taking a view of their risk ... on an ongoing basis, supported by technology," Wohlleben said. "Today, you hear them talking about too much manual intervention. They want to see more tools emerge that they can hook onto their networks, onto their applications, that will perform the monitoring for them." Federal CIOs want more mature IT security tools, Wohlleben said."We're talking about a vast space they have to protect, and some very sophisticated perpetrators," he added. "Some of the [security] technology is just now evolving."While many CIOs reported making progress with IT security, fewer said they were moving forward with privacy initiatives, he said. While some high-profile agencies have addressed privacy issues, "privacy is a much less mature concern in government" than security, Wohlleben said.

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