To compete in a global marketplace, enterprises are outsourcing business processes and other services at an increasing rate. This trend has created the attack vector “du jour” for cyber criminals and experts estimate 50-plus percent of major breaches involve a […]
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The last 20 years of security have been based on a single model that has changed very little over the years. The model still has its place and serves an important purpose. On the other hand, the security market has
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It seems like corporate networks and data are under siege from all angles. Security professionals need to defend against a vast threat landscape that includes external hackers, rogue apps, and insider attacks–both intentional and inadvertent. With limited resources to work
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It was revealed last week that the FBI had secretly arrested a former NSA contractor in August. The New York Times reported that an investigation is ongoing to determine whether the individual stole and/or disclosed highly classified code for an
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It has been more than three years now since Edward Snowden revealed and leaked sensitive and classified information to several journalists about a secret, and massive, government surveillance program. Currently in asylum within Russia, Snowden has been charged with theft
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Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent highly publicized social media account issues, most executives probably received a serious talking-to from their security chiefs about the need to frequently update and change their passwords on social media. While losing control of an
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Attackers may be in your network right now. It sometimes takes weeks or months for an organization to detect a compromise while the attacker takes his or her time conducting recon on your network, spreading to different endpoints and servers,
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It is challenging for IT and security admins to keep up with the rapid pace of change and the constant barrage of new threats and vulnerabilities to worry about. When users connect unknown mobile devices or log in to unauthorized
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Outer space is a huge, vast expanse of emptiness. There are endless numbers of asteroids and other debris zooming through the galaxy at blazing speed, and every once in a while one of them somehow manages to crash into our
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Every year at the RSA Conference hundreds—maybe thousands—of security vendors crowd into the Moscone Center in San Francisco with claims that their products or services are better. “Better” is a relative measure, but generally speaking the assertion is either that
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