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Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Stack Provides Toolkit for Key Stakeholders to Implement and Assess Security of Cloud EnvironmentsToday at the CSA Congress in Orlando, Florida, The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the availability of its Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack, an integrated suite of initiative for GRC in the cloud.

Report Lists Top Applications With Security Vulnerabilities But Doesn't Provide a True Representation of Which are Really The Most DangerousA report released this week serves a wake-up call to users and companies, and shows the need to start paying more attention to what software is on (and what versions!) computers and other devices such as smartphones and removable storage devices.

Study Finds Businesses Benefit From Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technologies but Lack Management ToolsA study released today revealed that many companies are implementing new technologies, but are lacking the appropriate tools to accurately manage performance.

Cookieless Device Identification Technology Helps Businesses Automate Fraud Decisioning Process

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) - What happens when APT Meets industrialization?

Independent audit verifies that AWS meets detailed standards for security best practices and controls Amazon Web Services today announced it has achieved ISO 27001 certification for its AWS infrastructure, data centers and services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

5.4 percent of all PCs compromised in 2010 were infected with a fake antivirus

AT&T Offers Mobile Device Management Solution from MobileIron to Help Manage and Secure Mobile Devices in the WorkplaceAT&T today announced a new service to help businesses and organizations provide over-the-air protection and control for smartphones being used within an organization.

Report Shows Organizations are Scared and Not Prepared for Effective Response to Security Events

Agentless Integration Kit Lets Service Providers Add Internet Single Sign-On to their Applications via RESTful API Calls

EMC Corporation today announced that it would acquire Isilon Systems, Inc. a network attached storage systems company, based in Seattle, Washington.

A report released today by Imperva, a provider of data security solutions, shares predictions on what we could expect to see in 2011 and is designed to inform and help IT security professionals defend their organization against the next onslaught of cyber security threats.Imperva's research team predicts IT security professionals will see the following in 2011:

A study released today shows that the financial services, technology and healthcare industries are seeing the greatest adoption of the iPad for business use.The report came from Good Technology, a provider of enterprise mobility solutions, which analyzed its customer base, which includes over 4,000 enterprise customers, whose iPad deployments range from one to over 1,000 iPads. "We took a close look at our customers who have deployed iPad devices so far," said John Herrema, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Good...

Community Information-Sharing Website to Advance Knowledge of Security Incidents via Anonymous ReportingVerizon has launched a Web site designed to collect and share information about security incidents that can be voluntarily and anonymously reported by participating organizations around the globe.

Research initiative aims to provide efficient delivery of data intensive storage services by understanding what's inside the data

Will Oracle Acquire CSC?Will Larry Ellison pull out his wallet yet again to make another large acquisition? Does Oracle have CSC in its sights? Tips suggest that this may be the case and that Oracle is possibly looking to acquire services giant CSC.

A new Plug-in for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) helps protect corporate networks by providing visibility into the true origin and destination of data and only allowing data to travel within the trusted realm of a company’s geographical business interest.

Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions Enhances global security for India and AsiaAfilias, a provider of Internet infrastructure services, this week announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for the .IN country code top-level domain (TLD) for the country of India and, in coordination with DotAsia, announced that (DNSSEC) has been enabled for the .ASIA top-level domain.

In an effort to honor the sacrifice of returning war heroes, Raytheon and Cisco today announced they would expand support of the Wounded Warrior Project’s education initiatives and support the development of a new cybersecurity training program that aims to help wounded servicemen and women re-enter the workplace with IT and cybersecurity skills.