Breached dating website FriendFinder allegedly missed email warnings from security researchers that its site had been breached and customers' data was being sold on a "darknet" site. What can other businesses learn from that apparent mistake?
Extending workloads to cloud computing platforms offers the promise of speed and agility. But it does not relieve you of your responsibility to secure data and applications from attack. Unfortunately, traditional security approaches fall short by being incompatible with the dynamic nature of cloud and hybrid cloud...
Organizations are increasingly relying on data warehouses to provide the business critical reporting and analysis needed to empower business decisions and drive results. The data warehouse is a central repository for integrating data from one or more disparate sources such as applications, databases and legacy...
News headlines about the increasing frequency of information and identity theft have focused awareness on data security and privacy breaches - and their consequences. In response to this issue, regulations have been enacted around the world. Although the specifics of the regulations may differ, failure to ensure...
A number of network security technologies have arisen that claim to be the "next generation" of network defense - but what does this concept actually mean? In the view of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) analysts, the term has become marginalized by technologies that pigeonhole capability into silos of...
Today's IT organizations are under more pressure than ever. As technology innovation and adoption increases, much of that pressure is centered around the conflict among three primary sources:
The hyper-empowered user who demands access to data anywhere, at any time, from any device;
The rich and vibrant diversity...
There is no fail-safe in today' s digital world. Incidents will occur, both unintentional and malicious. To mitigate damage and organizational impact, the agile organization will respond quickly. To mitigate risks before damage occurs, an organization can maintain a continuous high state of security, ensure that all...
Ponemon Institute surveyed 640 individuals involved in the application development and security process in their organizations on the following topics:
Why mobile application security eludes many organizations;
The difficulty in controlling employees' risky behaviors;
Are organizations taking the right steps to...
The ability to capture, consume and correlate multifaceted data from all over the enterprise is a growing need. No single data source or type can provide sufficient forensic capabilities to solve all of today's security problems. Log information from network and server infrastructure is no longer sufficient to...
Change is hard, and the security industry faces a distinct lack of control in a number of areas, which is enough to cause panic attacks. In terms of access, IT can no longer rely on ownership of or control over devices. Consumption occurs on user-owned devices everywhere - often not even through corporate-controlled...
As the world becomes more interconnected, integrated and intelligent, mobile devices are playing an ever-increasing role in changing the way people live, work and communicate. But it is not just happening in personal life: Smartphones and tablets are also being rapidly adopted by enterprises as new work tools, joining...
In today's multi-perimeter world - where users can access your corporate assets from any device, anywhere - it is more important than ever to ensure that online interactions are kept secure, private and compliant. With the growing use of cloud and mobile technologies, the borders of an organization are increasingly...
In many organizations today, the chief security threat isn't the external hacker or the careless employee, but the privileged user with access to critical data - the "crown jewels" - of the organization. Because of the overarching access of these users, their privileged identities have extraordinary abilities to...
Studies show the average time to resolve a security breach once detected is more than 45 days, and companies lose more than $1.6 million during that time. The obstacles to faster response include lack of resources and an inability to effectively communicate and collaborate among the multiple teams and tools larger...
Using personal information gained from third-party sources to circumvent authentication protections, hackers breached 100,000 accounts of taxpayers who had used the IRS's "Get Transcript" application, which has been temporarily shuttered.
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