Securing your data and network, inside and outside the perimeter
Twitter and the FTC have reached a settlement regarding Twitter's data security lapses. According to a Washington Post article: The FTC complaint said the breaches allowed hackers to gain administr... More >
Botnets are not going away. In fact, Gartner predicts that botnets will be going strong for the next few years, continuing to create security problems for businesses of all sizes. Unfortuna... More >
Earlier this week I talked about phone security in terms of malware and phishing schemes. Now I want to turn attention to smartphone apps. The release of the iPhone 4 and the new Android phon... More >
Phone security seems to be a hot topic the past week. My Twitter feed was full of news stories on the latest concerns in keeping safe from malware, smishing and vishing schemes. I can't help but th... More >
Sharing data is a vital part of everyday business transactions, and for some companies, there is a lot of data exchanged . However, this opens up companies for additional security risks. It's... More >
Today I noticed that my computer was acting funny, so I scanned my computer and sure enough, a Trojan was hiding deep in the bowels of some files. I wasted a lot of time trying to think wher... More >
This website caught my eye. It comes from Westfield Insurance and the first sentence ponders the question: Does the company really need information security training? The short answer is, of cour... More >
I read two articles today discussing how to provide protection from cyber attacks, but in two very different ways. The first comes from the government, which has been focusing on cyber incide... More >
Full disclosure: The breach I'm going to discuss could end up affecting me personally. But I think the overall message is too important not to share. Yesterday, Penn State University announce... More >
Passwords are often thought of as the first line of defense in data security , but there certainly seems to be a lot of discussion lately on their overall usefulness. Last month, for example, I talk... More >
I suppose I don't need to say that there are a lot of security risks lurking around our computers. But as Fortinet’s May Threat Landscape report shows, you can never let your guard down when it com... More >
Last summer, my colleague Mike Vizard wrote an interesting article called "At What Price Security?" that questions the way enterprises approach security in terms of funding and infrastructure. In t... More >

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