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According to a recent study from Symantec, employees who leave a job, on their own or due to being fired, tend to keep confidential information and other corporate data, and have no problems using it at their next place of employment.
Built from the ground up from a single code-base, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is company’s new flagship security platform for businesses.
IBM announced “IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data”, combining security intelligence with big data analytics capabilities to help customers detect hidden threats.
WatchDox, a provider of enterprise solutions to access, share and control sensitive documents, today announced a $12 million investment in the company, bringing total company funding to $35 million to date.
Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation videogames consoles.
Verdasys, a provider of information security solutions for businesses, this week announced global availability of the Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection (MSIP), a cloud-based managed service for protecting sensitive data.
The British Columbia Health Ministry discovered that employees were bypassing proper storage and data transfer procedures to share healthcare data with university researchers. Over 5 million people have been affected across several incidents.
Zettaset, a Mountain View, California-based provider of Big Data management and security solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $10 million Series B round in venture funding.
The Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has revealed that it has lost a portable hard drive that contained personal information on some 583,000 people who received student loans.
Voltage's approach to secure tokenization uses a set of static, pre-generated tables containing random numbers created using a FIPS random number generator.
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As legal, and sometimes operational and financial, advisors to small businesses, law offices should be more aware than ever of the security risks to small business clients, understand how to mitigate these risks, and lend support when a security breach occurs.
The IT world is quickly embracing Big Data. But while Big Data - and its underlying technology, NoSQL- is becoming a buzzword in information systems, there has not been much investigation into the security implications.
“Big security data” consists of data sets that grow so massive that they become awkward to work with using the database management tools that you have on hand. A few extra gigabytes here and terabytes there, and before you know it, you've got a big security data problem.
While many may think the term is over used, APTs are probably the most dangerous category of network-based threats to an organization. Low, slow, and stealthy, they cut with a scalpel, rather than smash with a club. The APT can infiltrate a network, rob it blind, and leave no trace.
The Verizon DBIR highlights how common the worst-case scenario has become in terms of IT security. The security industry has notoriously been somewhat seen as the boy who cried wolf, always warning companies about the dangers of hackers while often overselling the risk.
Choosing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution from the many vendors in the market is not easy. For those who must, here are some important aspects of the decision-making process to consider.
The protection of data is far harder than most people recognize.
As malware gets progressively more complex, it’s important to understand how the major players in the malware industry fit together and how these relationships affect the ways that malware is developed, distributed and ultimately used in attacks.
The joy of a hacker extracting your data is similar to the excitement one experiences playing the mechanical claw arcade machines – the one where you insert a few quarters and grab a toy with a mechanical claw. Picture the hacker running scripts instead of using the arcade game joystick.
As data and applications moving to the cloud and can move from one physical location to another almost instantly, ubiquitous encryption becomes even more important, 2012 is set to be be the year of ubiquitous encryption.
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