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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.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed Friday it has been targeted by hackers many times, as they reportedly look to access market-sensitive information before public release.
Malware and attackers are increasingly targeting privileged accounts as part of multi-stage operations where they breach networks, gather information, and exfiltrate sensitive data.
SafeNet says its Crypto Hypervisor enables organizations to virtualize their crypto resources in an efficient and scalable way, and ensures data can be encrypted, even as it moves in a virtualized environment.
Red Hat has completed seven new FIPS 140-2 certifications from the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Vudu, a subscription-based digital entertainment service, says that crooks walked off with a number of items, including hard drives when they broke into their offices last month. The company says the delay in notification was due to a request form law enforcement investigating the break-in.
Dataguise announced DG for Hadoop v4.3, a solution that provides masking and selective encryption for sensitive data in major Hadoop distributions.
The victims of the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) data breach are going to get additional credit monitoring thanks to $1 million in approved funds from the state’s lawmakers.
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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.
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.
As you embark on 2013 and evaluate your security risks for the coming year, what should not change in terms of your network security focus is data center security.
You know you need encryption, so then the question becomes how to start. What needs to be encrypted? The answer is anything of value.
The South Carolina Department of Revenue attack went unnoticed because the security team was not able to monitor and control data access across internal network and servers, making them blind to the attack.
Data breach notification laws are confusing and ever changing. Legislators trying to harmonize all the different state breach notification laws are going to have three big political challenges.
The challenge within the data center has migrated from the traditional tradeoffs between networking and security, primarily in the area of performance versus threat protection, to a new model where application is king.
As organizations look at data center consolidation or new data center designs, it’s a great time to be thinking of security, and building it into the network architecture instead of attempting to bolt it on later.
No more fertile ground for security breaches exists in the United States than our colleges and universities. A higher education student database is an identity thief’s dream come true.
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