To thwart spies, IETF wants to 'strengthen the Internet'
At its meeting in Vancouver this week, the IETF has discussed what it could do to turn its plan to protect the web from government spying into action.
Colin Neagle | 08 Nov | Read more
At its meeting in Vancouver this week, the IETF has discussed what it could do to turn its plan to protect the web from government spying into action.
Colin Neagle | 08 Nov | Read more
Gartner is predicting the cloud-based security services market, which includes secure email or web gateways, identity and access management (IAM), remote vulnerability assessment, security information and event management to hit $4.13 billion by 2017.
Ellen Messmer | 31 Oct | Read more
Whoever succeeds Gen. Keith Alexander as the next director of the National Security Agency will be stuck weathering the fallout from the Edward Snowden media leaks for the conceivable future.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 Oct | Read more
ForeScout Technologies Tuesday introduced technology that allows other security vendors as well as third parties such as systems integrators to share monitoring and security-related information directly with ForeScout's CounterAct network-access control product.
Ellen Messmer | 15 Oct | Read more
Cisco Systems has released security patches for authentication bypass, command execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting products that use its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software, as well as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches and Cisco 7600 series routers.
Lucian Constantin | 11 Oct | Read more
Making content choices based on what's popular on pirate sites makes perfect marketing sense to some media watchers
John P. Mello | 17 Sep | Read more
But while an alternative for consumers, picture-passwords a poor choice in enterprises because they do not work with Active Directory
Antone Gonsalves | 06 Sep | Read more
Tech companies are hanging on to record amounts of cash when they could be using it to do more acquisitions, repurchase stock, pay down debt, and pay out dividends. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Apple and Oracle are among the biggest hoarders. Combined, these five tech companies held $245 billion in cash at the end of March.
Ann Bednarz | 03 Sep | Read more
Cisco Systems released security patches for Secure Access Control Server (Secure ACS) for Windows to address a critical vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands and take control of the underlying operating system.
Lucian Constantin | 29 Aug | Read more
Because registrars are the equivalent of a hacker jackpot, they have to be more vigilant about the security of their customers, experts say
Antone Gonsalves | 29 Aug | Read more
Former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously said "In war, there are no winners. Only losers." The same can be said of intellectual property (IP) lawsuits involving departing employees, since – outside of lawyers and third-party forensic companies who thrive on a robust caseload – these disputes waste too much energy and money accomplishing what reasonably diligent measures could have prevented in the first place.
Dave Burtt and Donald Closser | 19 Aug | Read more
FIDO Alliance is one hopeful that Google has joined, but until passwords are replaced security experts suggest using password managers
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Jul | Read more
SMX has appointed former Earthquake Commission Hamilton technology leader, Paul Willard, to vice- president of operations.
Nearly a third of US workers distrust company software on their mobile devices
John P. Mello | 10 Jul | Read more
Much is made of the need for security professionals to improve communications with business executives, but insurance giant Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has dealt with a different challenge after a formal security council was recently established to co-ordinate security responses between the company’s five different CIOs.
David Braue | 28 Jun | Read more