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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The ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI has dominated security news for a few weeks now. There are always presentations and discussions related to privacy and encryption at the annual RSA Conference, but current events made it a
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There’s a popular meme online that goes, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The phrase is from a cartoon published in The New Yorker in July of 1993, which illustrates the anonymity of the Internet. Regardless of who
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My grandpa used to tell me that although you should reach for the clouds you should also always keep your feet firmly on the ground else your success will not last long. He never saw a cellphone in his lifetime
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When it comes to high tech security stuff it is no longer the aged, serious looking computer scientists that hold hope for the future. The next generation of security actually rests on the delicate young shoulders of Millennials and beyond
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Most companies understand that users educated to recognize and avoid security concerns are one of the–if not the–best defense against malware and network compromise. Unfortunately, the approach most organizations use for security awareness training accomplishes little more than providing some sort
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One of the fundamental problems with the traditional model of network and computer security is that it is reactive. While most security solutions include some element of heuristic defense capable of identifying new threats based on suspicious behaviors, the reality
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