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Study from Cisco Highlights Surprising Attitudes on Compliance, Standards Adoption, and Challenges Meeting PCI DSS RequirementsSeventy percent of IT decision makers feel that their organization is more secure than it would be if PCI compliance were not required. That’s according to a recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers to uncover their thoughts on PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

Smart phones sales exploding worldwide. Gartner research has shown that smart phone sales in 2010 Q3 accounted for nearly 20% of all mobile device sales, with a growth of nearly 100% since the same quarter the previous year. This number is sure to rise.

RackSpace and Akamai Partner to Provide Hosting, Cloud computing, Content and Application Delivery Services, in a one-stop cloudHosting giant RackSpace, and Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies, announced a partnership today that will bring Akamai’s web acceleration and cloud optimization services to RackSpace customers.

Growth in Mobile Broadband Globally Highlights Need for Increased Protection of Mobile DevicesDuring the course of 2010, mobile broadband subscriptions reached half-a-billion globally. Ericsson estimates that number to double before the end of 2011. The Asia Pacific region is expected to have the largest number of subscriptions with about 400 million, followed by North America and Western Europe with more than 200 million subscriptions each.

Blue Coat Systems today introduced Blue Coat ProxyOne, a Web security appliance that brings the same enterprise-class Web security used by FORTUNE 500 companies to smaller organizations at an affordable price point.

Data and voice communications provider, MegaPath, has entered the growing Managed Security Services market this week, announcing a suite of Security as a Service (SaaS) offerings.MegaPath was founded in 1996 and merged with Speakeasy and Covad Communications in 2010. MegaPath Managed Security Services customers aren’t required to be MegaPath connectivity customers, as it offers on-premises security services, allowing customers to leverage the Internet connection of their choice.

Malware targeting social networks appears to be the latest growing threat to mobile security. With people being “always connected” on mobile devices, and often not a full screen to easily see URL’s and click through destinations, it’s no surprise that mobile devices are appearing as the first device users are responding to threats with.

AirTight Delivers Managed Wi-Fi Access, PCI Scanning and Network Security in a Single Device AirTight Networks, a provider of Wireless intrusion prevention systems and services, has announced the launch of AirTight Cloud Services, a new suite of managed services which adds Wi-Fi access to its portfolio of on-demand wireless security and compliance solutions.

Strategies and Considerations for Securing Private Cloud EnvironmentsOn the back end of private cloud environments you’ll find multiple flavors of virtual software loaded directly onto hardware. This virtual software is essentially the host operating system. VM Host is the base hypervisor and hardware. Think of it as the house. The guest operating systems (Guest OSs) are the virtual machines living in the house.

Security Professionals are Plagued with Lack of Resources, too Much Work, too Little Time, and Competing Priorities. As a Result, we end up with Incomplete Security. If information security were simple, I would have been out of a job years ago. But we don't need to make it more complex than it is.

SonicWALL released its 2010 end-of-year summary of cyber-security intelligence today, revealing global trends in malicious network activity and application usage across its customer base.SonicWALL’s data, collected from over 30 countries worldwide, showed spikes in vulnerabilities on Mondays and Tuesdays, points to seasonal trends in threats associated with specific types of malware, with the most active time for threat-related traffic in the United States being between the hours of 10:00 AM. and 11:00 AM PST.

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Application Security

Application Security

As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.

Cloud Security

Cloud Security

A total of 22 patches were releaased, a majority for code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure vulnerabilities.

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Government

Late amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would give ministers new powers to restrict risky technology providers as supply chain attacks intensify.

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