The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released an update to its Top 10 list of risks facing developers. As in previous years, injection remained the top application security risk.
Cisco is revamping its security ecosystem to increase the focus on its Identity Services Engine, which would help enterprises deploy layered defenses without increasing complexity.
Information security is peppered with several misconceptions and exaggerations about threats facing businesses and the technologies to combat those threats.
Content Raven, a company that helps customers control and secure content and intellectual property distributed externally, announced that it secured $2 million in a Series A round, led by Mass Ventures.
Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) remain concerned about the security, privacy, and reliability of cloud applications, but they quickly see the benefits once they make the actual jump, according to a Microsoft survey.
It’s important we remember that IT security is essentially an asymmetric struggle. If we don’t adapt, we simply play into the hands of those who want to attack us.
Recognized Big Data security solutions can only examine data that administrators and engineers have programmed them to identify. They cannot, on their own, choose to browse data sets that they "think" might yield information, nor can they detect information about risky user behaviors that hasn't been captured.
The Omnibus Rule that updated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has the potential to be a game changer because of the things it says in writing, as well as some of the things that it doesn’t say.
When the subject of public cloud computing comes-up, it is inevitable that the concept of ‘risk’ soon follows. But the greatest risk to an organization considering public cloud is not security, it is cost.
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.