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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 [...]

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 [...]

Compelling Survey, Weak Solution

Compelling Survey, Weak Solution

Last week a software vendor published survey data stating that over 40% of IT staff abuse administrative passwords to [...]

Applauding the Lieberman-Collins CyberSecurity Bill S 3480

Applauding the Lieberman-Collins CyberSecurity Bill S 3480

The proposed Lieberman-Collins bill S 3480 "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010" has been criticized [...]

AT&T iPad Breaches are Really About Application Security

AT&T iPad Breaches are Really About Application Security

Ericka Chickowski published this timely Dark Reading article about the Apple iPad customer data breach at AT&T, [...]

Securing Data in the Cloud

Securing Data in the Cloud

Safeguarding a cloud infrastructure from unmonitored access, malware and intruder attacks grows more challenging for [...]

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