How You Should Be Thinking About the Information Security Budget
So, how did you do this year with your security budget requests? And how does the plan look for next year? With information security representing a competitive arms race with…
DetailsTwitter Enables Perfect Forward Secrecy to Bolster Security
Twitter Inc. said it has enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) in a move to increase protections around users’ information following reports of secret data mining by the National Security Agency…
DetailsPCI Security Standards Council Updates Credit Card Data Security Standard
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), a worldwide forum that develops payment card security standards for its corporate members, has published its latest version of those standards for implementation…
DetailsAudit Finds Taxpayer Data is at Risk; Urges IRS to Take Action
Taxpayer data is at risk as disgruntled insiders or malicious outsiders can exploit security weaknesses and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should take action, the US Treasury Inspector General For Tax…
DetailsPrevent SQL Injection Attacks with DB Networks’ New Core IDS
What is the top threat to web applications today? According to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), it’s SQL injection. The problem is so pervasive that it has topped the OWASP…
DetailsSometimes Your Employees Go Home; The Case for Securing Home Users
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…
DetailsIf You Host It, They Will Come
Would 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…
DetailsDoes the NSA Use Quantum Computing to Break Things?
In 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…
DetailsDistributed Denial of Service Attacks – Who is Legally Liable?
It seems that the Obamacare website, http://www.healthcare.gov, has had a spot of trouble lately. However, obscured in all the debate over the policy of the Affordable Care Act and all…
DetailsBoom Times for Cloud Security
Amazon 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…
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