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NEW YORK - Boeing is launching a self-destructing smartphone to help spies, diplomats and others keep secrets secure.

SAN FRANCISCO - In last year's workforce study from ISC2, 56 percent of those surveyed said their security organization was short-staffed. A year later, figuring out what to do about that remains a challenge, and it is one not far from the minds of some of the attendees at the RSA Conference.

Earlier this month, security researchers from FireEye discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit (CVE-2014-0322) that was being used in a watering hole attack on the US Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website.

Most of the complex fields humans engage in develop their own terminology, which then becomes a problem of translation for the expert. One of the fundamental problems for security at the “C-level” is to translate between security's inner language, which tends to be about risk, and business' inner language, which is about money and opportunity.

Oracle has introduced a new platform designed to help organizations provide secure access to enterprise applications and data from mobile devices.

"We Must Have the Same Abhorrence to Cyber War as We do to Nuclear and Chemical Warfare" - Art Coviello, RSA Chairman

From Security Products to Security Systems, and Now: Security Networks We all know that servers virtualization technologies have matured already and many networks adapt them in order to more efficiently meet today’s business needs.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2014 - Qualys, a provider of cloud security and compliance solutions, this week added Continuous Monitoring to its flagship QualysGuard suite of applications for security and compliance.

SAN FRANCISCO - Normally, the buzz around a RSA Conference is confined to talk of products and services and the challenge of improving enterprise security. This year however, it was different.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE - Qualys, a provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today said that its QualysGuard Web Application Firewall (WAF) service for web applications running in Amazon EC2 and on-premise is now available.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2014 - Network security firm Check Point Software Technologies today introduced a new security architecture that the company explains as modular, agile and secure. Called Software-defined Protection (SDP) by Check Point says the architecture takes a three-layer approach comprised of enforcement, control and management layers.

In my previous article for SecurityWeek, I discussed how the city of Atlanta handled a recent snowstorm to illustrate the difference between having the information necessary to accurately predict events and taking proactive steps to alter or alleviate the outcome.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2014 - Cisco Systems made multiple announcements Monday touting the integration of recently-acquired security technologies into the company's efforts to address malware protection.

Shape Security, the Mountain View, California-based web security firm that recently emerged from stealth mode, today announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners.

AT&T and IBM announced a new partnership that the two companies say will offer customers a simplified, single-source for network security and threat management.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2014 –Juniper Networks has unveiled a new malware detection service for its SRX Series Services Gateways that the company says can identify malware that many traditional solutions which analyze signatures or Command and Control traffic cannot detect.

WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday declined to comment on claims that its spies are conducting sweeping surveillance of hundreds of prominent Germans, though it did not deny the reports.

Cyber Thieves Blamed for Bitcoin Heist: ResearchersWASHINGTON - A gang of cyber criminals using an army of infected computers made off with at least $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies, security researchers said Monday.

Security researchers at Bromium have poked holes in the armor of Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.

Safely Enabling Mobile Devices - Planning for Network Security Part 3