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Who’s Watching the Watchers?

Who’s Watching the Watchers?

Inside your data center it's the system administrators, DB admins, and IT managers who hold all the power -- [...]

Will We Buy the Rope?

Will We Buy the Rope?

This week it was reported that the government of China ordered banks and other enterprises to limit use of foreign [...]

Smart Cards Are Key to Outsmarting Hospitality Hackers

Smart Cards Are Key to Outsmarting Hospitality Hackers

Now that we've reached the  last real month of summer the US vacation season will slowly wind down. However  if the [...]

Time to Re-Think Conventional Password Security

Time to Re-Think Conventional Password Security

Paul Roberts posted an interesting story on Threatpost about the limitations of conventional password [...]

Insider Threats, Misused Privileges are Leading Causes of Security Breaches

Insider Threats, Misused Privileges are Leading Causes of Security Breaches

Last week Verizon Business released its 2010 Data Breaches and Investigations Report with some fascinating results. [...]

Data Breaches at Colleges and Universities – Are You and Your Children Protected?

Data Breaches at Colleges and Universities – Are You and Your Children Protected?

Last week Campus Technology Magazine reported three separate security breaches at major universities.  In June Florida [...]

Don’t Overlook Database Security

Don’t Overlook Database Security

Over the years I've been amazed by some of the questionable security practices that I’ve witnessed in some very large [...]

Why Privileged Identity Management Implementations Fail

Why Privileged Identity Management Implementations Fail

As veterans of the privileged identity management (PIM) field, my colleagues and I hear some unsettling stories from [...]

Privileged Identity Management/Access Mistakes

Privileged Identity Management/Access Mistakes

I recently had the opportunity to take part in a podcast with NetworkWorld editor Keith Shaw/@shawkeith (a very [...]

Gartner Agrees – Know What Security Processes Your Cloud Provider Follows

Gartner Agrees – Know What Security Processes Your Cloud Provider Follows

This week Gartner’s Global IT Council for Cloud Services issued a press release outlining the rights and [...]

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