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Symantec has appointed Thomas Seifert as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Conference organizers said that its 23rd annual event drew a record of more than 28,500 attendees.
Are schools and universities doing enough to prepare application developers to deal with IT security? One security expert says no.
The recently-disclosed data breach at Neiman Marcus has turned out to not be as bad as the company originally thought.
When it comes to securing a Linux machine, the answer is not installing an antivirus or some other security software. The key lies in hardening the operating system.
McAfee has shared details on a soon to be released threat sharing platform designed to help security teams develop and customize a threat intelligence solution from global data sources.
The University of Maryland is the latest victim of a significant data breach, stemming from what school officials described as a “sophisticated computer security attack” that exposed records containing personal information.
Synopsys, a company that provides tools and services for designing chips and electronic systems, said on Wednesday that it would acquire, Coverity, a provider of software quality, testing, and security tools, for approximately $375 million.
In a survey of 1,083 professionals in the U.S. and the EMEA, researchers at the Ponemon Institute found that many feel incident response is hurt by the inability of point solutions to prioritize alerts as they come in as well as poor integration between products.
Akamai Technologies has completed the $370 million acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, a firm that specializes in DDoS protection solutions.
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Security Metrics are critical for our ability to do better at our jobs, to quantify where we are succeeding and to measure what works, and how well it's working.
Here are five things I recommend security pros keep in mind when navigating the line between tight security and keeping the organization running at peak proficiency.
The concepts of defense in depth have been with us for years -- hundreds of years, if not thousands. Maybe we can learn something from those architects of warfare from the Middle Ages?
While security monitoring generates big data, in its raw form it remains only a means to an end. Ultimately, information security decision making should be based on prioritized, actionable insight derived from the data.
Without the elements of prevention, detection, and protection all working together, threat actors will always have the advantage, and will find a way to carry out their illicit economic, political or social agendas.
Predictive security narrows the scope considerably and helps IT and security pros zero-in on the most likely vulnerabilities and areas most-at-risk due to the sensitive nature of the data they hold.
The insider threat is very much a reality, and because it hides in the details, it’s one of the biggest threats businesses can encounter.
IT managers focused on protecting technology infrastructure would do well to assess whether cloud service providers have better security systems in place than their own corporate IT resources allow.
Open source is a valuable tool for defenders as they work to close these gaps and to gather greater intelligence about potential threats to make better decisions and take action.
Every security team that can fog a mirror is asking the question “what just happened at Target, and how do we make sure that doesn’t happen to us?”
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