Security World: Who has responsibility for cloud security? A Network World roundtable

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Who has responsibility for cloud security? A Network World roundtable
As more organizations leverage the cloud for critical business applications, they are discovering one of the greatest challenges is combining existing internal controls with cloud protection efforts. Highly regulated business and government organizations in particular must maintain comprehensive security and compliance postures across these hybrid systems. Network World explores the issue in-depth with: Read More

WHITE PAPER: Trusteer

Dealing with Advanced and Targeted Attacks
This whitepaper explains how advanced malware challenges traditional defenses to take advantage of the increased exposure of employee endpoints. It reviews the evolution of advanced targeted attacks and the various approaches used to address them. Learn More.

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WHITE PAPER: HP

Rethinking Your Enterprise Security
Forward-thinking enterprises realize they need to focus on a sustainable approach to security and risk management—one that is designed to address the new wave of vulnerabilities that prevail due to increasing trends in IT consumerization, mobility, social media, cloud computing, cyber crime, and nation-state attacks. Learn more.

CIA Chief advises you to ask: What are your rights? Who owns your data?
The cloud is old news, it's "so three years ago," and Big Data "was so last year," but according to the CIA's Chief Technology Officer, Ira "Gus" Hunt, this year is about "how to get value" from Big Data. At the GigaOM Structure Data conference, Hunt presented, "The CIA's 'Grand Challenges" with Big Data" and I highly recommend that you take about 30 minutes to personally listen to it. Read More

Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply
Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Moovweb

3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy
In the new Moovweb white paper, "Creating the Right Mobile Strategy: What You Need to Know Before You Get Started", get the insight you need to make an educated decision on the move to mobile. Read Now!

Hackers steal photos, turn Wi-Fi cameras into remote surveillance device
With so many people seizing the convenience of using their smartphone cameras to point, shoot and share, embedded GPS location and all, digital camera manufacturers have been offering more "social" options such as built-in Wi-Fi capabilities and camera apps to quickly share photos and videos. Read More

Entrust puts down stake in the future of mobile security and digital certificates
Entrust, whose focus is identity-based security based on digital certificates, has come up with new ways its technology can play a role in mobile devices. According to Entrust CEO Bill Conner, the latest thing is putting a digital certificate in an Apple iPhone so it can be used to wirelessly sign in to a PC or Macintosh. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Verisign Inc.

Combining Cloud-Based DNS & DDOS Protection Services
First published in SC Magazine, this article discusses the threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Domain Name System (DNS) as a common attack vector for DDoS, and makes the case for combined, cloud-based DNS and DDoS protection services to thwart the risks of DDoS. Learn more.

Security experts applaud Apple's new two-factor authentication
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. Read More

A NEW architecture for enterprise Internet access
Last time, we looked at a specific solution to the problem of the "trombone" effect in enterprise Internet access using the Read More

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