Take Responsibility For Your Security

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	Take Responsibility For Your Security In this political season we are hearing a lot about how individuals need to take responsibility for their own lives. We don't want a society that is dependent on the government (or maybe we do, I don't know) for support. Well in information security this issue is of critical importance. If you are not responsible for the consequences of you actions around security, why would you ever take them seriously? ... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Custom Security Solutions for Your Data The Verizon Security platform offers customizable solutions to ensure targeted accessibility of vital business data. These services help improve security by implementing data sensitivity levels and controls across data sets, multiple platforms and specific users. And with targeted accessibility, your organization can increase its cost efficiencies. Click to continue In this Issue Smartphone snoop: Even when phone sleeps, digital assistant always eavesdrops US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than) a few good drones Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls Exploring cybercriminal minds, safeguarding privacy among $50M worth of new NSF research projects New bill attempts to curb Big Brother's ability to snoop and squelch free speech online Researcher digs up another zero-day Java bug Android adware in popular apps becoming more aggressive RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Smartphone snoop: Even when phone sleeps, digital assistant always eavesdrops On your smartphone, do you use speech-to-text or other voice commands for convenience? While it is handy, so long as it actually correctly interprets the words, you turn it on by choice. If the mobile phone microphone, which happens to be about 10 times more powerful than it was even two years ago, activated by itself to covertly turn your voice to text, then sort of invasive spying would be downright... Read More US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than) a few good drones The US Department of Homeland Security this week issued a call for unmanned systems makers to participate in a program that will ultimately determine their safety and performance for use in first responder, law enforcement and border security situations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sourcefire, Inc. FireAMP May be the Right Product at the Right Time APTs are real and extremely dangerous. Enterprise Strategy Group research indicates that many enterprise organizations have been targeted by and are vulnerable to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Why? Many existing security tools cannot detect or remediate APTs as they evolve within corporate networks. Learn More Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls Today's next-generation firewalls are "application aware" but they aren't aware of the connectivity needs among applications. It's common for a change in a firewall rule for one application to break the business process of another application because no one understood that the rule impacted more than one application. Tufin Software Technologies has a new tool that automates that process to maintain business continuity. Read More Exploring cybercriminal minds, safeguarding privacy among $50M worth of new NSF research projects The National Science Foundation (NSF) this week awarded $50 million for more than 70 research projects focused on securing cyberspace in the United States. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More New bill attempts to curb Big Brother's ability to snoop and squelch free speech online Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, has introduced two new bills to the U.S. House of Representatives. These bills, introduced last Friday, are designed to protect innovation, user privacy, and free speech on the Internet. Read More Researcher digs up another zero-day Java bug A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software. Read More Android adware in popular apps becoming more aggressive The advertising embedded on some free Android apps is getting more aggressive and there is no easy mechanism for users to detect the issue before downloading programs, security firm BitDefender has reported. Read More
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