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Enterprise and ICS networks should at least be separated at layer 3, so it’s probably more accurate to say that we’ve routed the air gap, but I didn’t want to give up the double entendre of bridging the gap. Terrible network jokes aside, the simple truth is that digital networking has displaced the air gap, blowing it into the distant places of legend. It is a myth. It does not exist.

Microsoft today announced “BlueHat Prize,” a contest designed to generate new ideas for defensive approaches to support computer security. Microsoft’ goals is to inspire security researchers to develop innovative solutions intended to address serious security threats, and ones that could potentially block entire classes of vulnerabilities.

The specter of advanced persistent threats (APTs) hangs over a growing number of conversations these days about enterprise security, and has prompted businesses to take a closer look at how they can make their environments less vulnerable.

McAfee Reveals Operation Shady RAT“I am convinced that every company in every conceivable industry with significant size and valuable intellectual property and trade secrets has been compromised.” - Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee

Surrounding the Black Hat Conference set to take place this week in Las Vegas, Veracode, a provider of cloud-based application risk management solutions, today announced Veracode DynamicMP, an on demand solution that combines the power of automated web application vulnerability scanning with the power of cloud computing to provide a scalable vulnerability detection service that can simultaneously test application security across thousands of

Sin City, A.K.A Las Vegas, Nevada – is once again playing host this week to the Black Hat and DEFCON security conferences. With throngs of computer experts patrolling the Strip, it seems only fitting to take a moment to consider the threat landscape of online casinos.The Hacker, the Insider and Everything in Between

NTT Communications has boosted the capacity of its IP Network that connects Japan and the United States to 500 Gbps. The new capacity is equivalent to more than four centuries' worth of content in a daily newspaper, making the Internet pipe the leader in capacity between the two countries.

Although Groups Like LulzSec and Anonymous Have Created Headlines with Very High Profile Attacks, They Represent a Tiny Fraction of the Online Crime that Happens Around the World Each DayThe amount of new malware being created shot up 60 percent during the first half of 2011, according to a new report from Sophos.

Symantec has updated its Enterprise Vault archiving software with a mix of data classification technology and a new focus on social media content.In Enterprise Vault 10, Symantec is touting data classification as a means to help ease the archiving of Microsoft Exchange e-mail content and metadata as well as the ability to automatically archive content from social media sites such as Facebook.

Software Vendors Need to Know the Impact That Unlicensed Software has on their Bottom Line

Palo Alto Networks, the network security company best known for its Next Generation Firewalls, on Monday will announce that VeriSign CEO, Mark D. McLaughlin, will join Palo Alto Networks and take the reigns as president and CEO of the company. The fast growing company had been without a CEO for 8 months.

Say you’re pulled over, can a police offer demand you turn over your cell phone? Is the officer entitled to look at or take your phone, or for that matter, any other device such as a laptop or tablet?In a recent episode of NBC’s Press:Here, Hanni Fakouri of the Electronic Frontier Foundation addresses and discusses individual’s legal rights, and what you should do if you’re found in a situation where law enforcement attempts to access or take your electronic devices.

Sourcefire announced this week that it has appointed Charles E. Peters, Jr., chief financial officer of Red Hat, Inc., to its Board of Directors as an independent director, effective July 26, 2011.

Moscow based Kaspersky Lab, with U.S. a headquarters in Woburn, MA, this week announced that two senior level marketing executives have joined the company as it continues to grow globally.

While an increasing portion of IT budgets are being allocated towards security, 70 percent of respondents in a recent IT security survey said they have been impacted by security breaches and still struggle to mitigate attacks due to limited time and resources.

I assume there are a few technology arenas more confusing that security (though, probably not many). Even when I have lunch with my small business counterparts and we talk security, I find a lot of misconceptions about what web security is all about.

According to a recent market research report from Gartner, 44 percent of the $16.5 billion worldwide security software market in 2010 belonged to the five largest vendors, including Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, IBM and EMC’s RSA.The combined market share for the top five vendors has dropped from 60 percent since 2006, according to Gartner’s report, “Market Trends: An Ever-Consolidating Security Market Never Consolidated”.