Bring your own devices (BYOD), USB flash drives, signing into compromised personal web-based accounts from work, and shared passwords. These are some of the reasons for information security professionals to train…
DetailsWould employees show up to a voluntary lunch and learn session on phishing, password tips, and two-step verification? Contrary to the security awareness pessimists’ responses, they will. Of course there…
DetailsIn the continuing stream of revelations about reported NSA hacking to protect national interests comes more news. Data moving between data centers operated by the world’s largest Internet email companies allegedly…
DetailsAmazon announced several initiatives at its AWS re:Invent conference that are destined to disrupt several markets Held last week in Las Vegas, the Amazon Web Services’ conference hosted more than…
DetailsPrivate cloud computing is a “reality” for half of large enterprises with agility being the key driver, according to Gartner, Inc. In a recent research report, “Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid…
DetailsIT security is a complicated issue. However, the focus on what security can do, can’t do, and how it is perceived, ordinarily is narrow. Generally, managers deal with security in…
DetailsThe Devil Inside the Beltway is a chilling memoir that documents the shambles made of Michael Daugherty’s life by apparent regulatory overreach on the part of the Federal Trade Commission…
DetailsIT-security related salaries are expected to climb in 2014, according to a survey released by TEKsystems, which polled some 900 IT leaders including CIOs, IT VPs, IT directors and IT hiring managers, Some…
DetailsWireless cameras, RFID key cards, keyboards, cordless phones, just about every wireless technology that isn’t light- or sound-based will attract a hoard of researchers (and attackers) looking at ways to exploit …
DetailsTrustwave announced on Monday that it had acquired data security provider Application Security Inc., for an undisclosed sum as Trustwave continues its strategy of acquiring security technology vendors to spur its…
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