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AirWatch, a provider of mobile security and mobile device management (MDM) solutions, on Tuesday announced that it has taken a $25 million investment from VC firm Accel Partners.
In this podcast, Stephen Ridley talks about his experience as a minority in the security industry, the things that still get his research juices flowing and a preview of his new hardware sensor business project.
Non-profit organization SAFECode unveiled a series of new training modules to help enterprises train software developers in-house to write secure code.
The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) said on Thursday that a public Web server (www.courts.wa.gov) containing sensitive information operated by the Office was hacked.
Domain registrar Name.com sent an email to all of their customers, disclosing a security incident that may have compromised some sensitive information.
In what was billed as his first media briefing outside China in 26 years at the helm of Huawei, company founder and president Ren Zhengfei was interviewed by a small group of New Zealand journalists in the capital Wellington.
A bi-partisan group of Senators introduced a new bill to fight cyber-espionage and intellectual property theft by foreign countries.
Protecting the database means more than just persistent data security, it also means defining access controls and auditing and enforcing policy.
China is engaged in widespread cyber espionage in a bid to extract information about the US government's foreign policy and military plans, said a Pentagon report.
McAfee said Monday that it has agreed to acquire Finnish firewall maker Stonesoft in a deal worth $389 million in cash.
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Despite the billions of dollars spent annually by government and private industry to protect their networks and critical data assets, the large majority of breaches can be tied directly to human error and/or a breakdown in protocol.
Without the internal and external safeguards working in conjunction, your vulnerability will spike and your performance will suffer as a by-product -- two things you can’t afford to have happen.
In order to win the war with today’s cybercriminals that are using the same attack vectors on a massive scale, a real-time, automated information platform that pre-empts ongoing attacks is an imperative.
There is an old saying, that if you want to get ahead, don’t bring your boss problems, bring him or her solutions. The same can be said when it comes to investing in security solutions.
In security, we talk about trade-offs all the time. Recent events have highlighted that whether or not we are doing it consciously, we are making decisions about security versus privacy versus convenience daily.
To understand today’s array of threats and effectively defend against them, IT security professionals need to start thinking like attackers.
There is a term currently permeating the security industry that distracts everyone from the larger goals at hand of making networks safer, mitigating threats and protecting critical data. The term is hype.
Understanding the various types of malicious actors targeting your networks, including their motivations and modus operandi, is key to identifying, expelling and expunging them.
The challenges of Java-based threats go deeper than your average 0-day vulnerability, and these challenges will likely affect your approach to controlling them. Organizations need to weigh the risk of a technology against the reward for the enterprise.
In this podcast, Greg Hoglund talks to Ryan Naraine about the inner workings of APT attack campaigns, the legal issues around hacking-back against adversaries and why the industry needs to be more aggressive to thwart the theft of intellectual property.
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