John Carlin is an Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice in the US and runs the National Security Division. He is responsible for prosecuting cyber criminals in the United States that threaten the interests of the country. It was the first new litigation division created in 50 years and came from a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and pulled together several different government entities that, until then, didn’t share information easily.
Anthony Caruana |
23 Apr |
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The Office of Personnel Management in the United States is responsible vast volumes of personal information. They’re responsible for the data relating to potential, current and past employees of the government. IT Security Operations Director Jeff Wagner is responsible for protecting this data against a constantly changing threat landscape. He’s taken a non-traditional approach to not only respond to threats in seconds with fewer resources, but also uncover previously hidden threats that were lurking on the network.
Anthony Caruana |
22 Apr |
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Loud music, a spectacular video presentation and an auditorium full of info sec professionals. It’s that time of the year - the opening of RSA Conference.
Anthony Caruana |
22 Apr |
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NetIQ has announced general availability of NetIQ Access ManagerTM 4.1 and NetIQ Advanced Authentication Framework 5.1. The technologies adaptively tailor the appropriate level of identity verification for each situation to keep access simple for users without compromising security.
Anthony Caruana |
20 Apr |
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BT has launched BT Assure Cyber, a security platform designed to offer complete and comprehensive monitoring, detection and protection against cyber threats targeted at private sector and government organisations. It combines a blend of carefully selected tools developed by BT and its partners.
Anthony Caruana |
17 Apr |
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Akamai has introduced two new managed security service offerings to the Kona family of cloud security solutions. Managed Kona Site Defender and Kona DDoS Defender protect websites and web applications from malicious activity, keeping them online and providing high performance, even in the midst of an attack.
Anthony Caruana |
17 Apr |
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Verizon’s “2015 Data Breach Investigations Report,” released today, reveals cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but that many criminals still rely decades-old techniques such as phishing and hacking.
Anthony Caruana |
17 Apr |
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Trend Micro has announced that it is among a group of security and technology leaders executing Operation SIMDA to thwart a massive botnet at INTERPOL World 2015. The event is being held in Singapore from April 14-16.
Anthony Caruana |
16 Apr |
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Webroot has integrated its Webroot BrightCloud IP Reputation Service with Palo Alto Networks' next-generation Firewall. This will allow organisations to use the reputation service to detect and block malicious incoming IPs.
Anthony Caruana |
16 Apr |
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Token-less authentication company SecurEnvoy, has signed an agreement with distributor Connector Systems, to bring its two-factor authentication product portfolio to a broader market in Australia and New Zealand.
Anthony Caruana |
01 Apr |
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FireEye has the appointment of Eric Hoh as their first President of Asia Pacific Japan region. He will oversee FireEye’s business operations and sales across the Asia Pacific region. He is based at the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore.
Anthony Caruana |
31 Mar |
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The government's plan to force telecommunications providers to retain a set of metadata for every person has privacy advocates up in arms and police and security agencies telling us that this legislation is essential for fight crime in the 21st century.
Anthony Caruana |
25 Feb |
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The government's plan to force telecommunications providers to retain a set of metadata for every person has privacy advocates up in arms and police and security agencies telling us that this legislation is essential for fight crime in the 21st century.
Anthony Caruana |
24 Feb |
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The Coalition Government is looking to push laws through the House of Representatives and Senate that would pave the way for vast swathes of data to be retained by certain agencies to either aid the detection of crime or to support criminal cases so that bad guys can be prosecuted and incarcerated
Anthony Caruana |
17 Feb |
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Last week, Microsoft released Outlook for iOS and offered a preview version of Outlook for Android. While this was generally heralded as a significant productivity win, it seems that there might be some security problems.
Anthony Caruana |
06 Feb |
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