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Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges If you read this blog or IT Business Edge regularly (and thank you for doing so!), I assume that you care about network security, emerging technologies, and the intersection between the two issues. But it seems like you are in the minority, at least within the workplace. Oh, […]

How Heartbleed Is Changing Security Cybersecurity has made its way back into the halls of Congress. As we’ve seen in the past, cybersecurity has been the victim of the polarized partisanship that has plagued just about every other issue over the past four or five years, and to be honest, I don’t have high hopes […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Shadow IT in the Enterprise A few months ago, I was asked to write an excerpt on shadow IT for an e-book. I had to decline because I didn’t know much about shadow IT. Heck, I didn’t know anything about shadow IT—or so I thought. I just didn’t recognize it by […]

Ten Rules for the Cyber Incident Responder I remember being at a security conference a few years ago, and one of the speakers said that, in his opinion, cyber war will focus on utilities – water supplies, power plants, the energy infrastructure. The comments came shortly after the Stuxnet revelations. Said in a room filled […]

Ten Rules for the Cyber Incident Responder It’s been a while since I’ve talked about banking Trojans, but it appears that a wave of new Trojans has cropped up in recent weeks. Researchers at PhishMe announced that they have uncovered a Trojan called Dyre, which was designed to bypass SSL security in order to steal […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe BYOW is the newest acronym to learn—bring your own wearables. It was only a matter of time until we started talking about wearable technology in the workplace. According to a CNBC article, the wearable technology market is expected to reach $18 billion by 2019. That includes smart watches, […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges A new study commissioned by Raytheon and conducted by the Ponemon Institute provides a fresh look at the insider threat. In a nutshell, we can expect the insider threat to increase. According to FierceMobileIT: Focusing on ‘the human factor,’ the survey report, “Privileged User Abuse & The Insider […]

Seven Steps to Prepare for BYOD When I talk to security experts, I find that one issue really bugs most of them – people who still think that Apple products are immune to hacks, malware and other threats. I think the security awareness among iPhone users has improved a lot over the past year or […]

How to Avoid the Costly Headaches of a Data Breach Another large and famous company suffered a data breach, allegedly caused by a third-party vendor. The company was AT&T, and this breach could have serious implications for businesses. According to eSecurity Planet, AT&T sent out a letter to its customers, which stated: We recently determined […]

How to Avoid the Costly Headaches of a Data Breach Earlier this month we passed the one-year anniversary of the Edward Snowden revelations. I will go out on a limb and say that from June 2013 to June 2014, it was a bad year for security. The uncovering of NSA surveillance by Edward Snowden (who […]

Top Cyber Scams Expected for 2014 The World Cup begins today. I’m not a soccer fan, but I have followed the misadventures of the World Cup preparations. We’ve heard a lot about unfinished stadiums, for example, but another concern surrounds the World Cup that isn’t getting as much attention. That’s cybersecurity, both at home and […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider It’s been a few months since the Heartbleed bug was announced to the world, and we continue to see the lingering effects, both directly involving Heartbleed and OpenSSL security. Symantec announced a spam campaign making the rounds that claims to provide a tool to eradicate Heartbleed […]