IBM: Security threat prevention isn't 'dead' yet!

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	IBM: Security threat prevention isn't 'dead' yet! There's been much discussion in the security industry that preventing malware-based infiltrations into the enterprise is nigh on impossible, and the new security mantra should be "rapid detection is the new prevention." On that, IBM begs to differ. Read More     In this Issue Review: FireEye fights off multi-stage malware Video: Exploring False Positives and False Negatives within IPS On security reports and weather forecasts Security Chalk Talk: How False Negatives Occur with Intrusion Prevention Systems No reasonable expectation of privacy when third parties cross the creepy line? Data breaches 9% more costly in 2013 than year before Open campus, security nightmare Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks Hackers capture dynamic data to prepare for effective, stealthy attacks 10 Ways to Keep Windows XP Machines Secure Aggressive, persistent Windows tech support scammers continue to stalk consumers 11 reasons encryption is (almost) dead 10 tips to attract women to infosec jobs WHITE PAPER: McAfee Get Proactive About Managing Security and Risk Read how managing risk today means making sense of more data: vulnerability scans, application and database logs, flows, access and session records, alerts, and trending analysis. View Now>> Review: FireEye fights off multi-stage malware You can't see some malware until it's too late. Sophisticated attacks arrive in pieces, each seemingly benign. Once these advanced attacks reassemble, the target is already compromised. Read More Video: Exploring False Positives and False Negatives within IPS Intrusion Prevention Systems are designed to detect and block malicious traffic in a network or on an endpoint. The most critical function that these systems provide is the ability to make a judgment about the nature of a network flow, determining whether the traffic is legitimate or malicious. Read More On security reports and weather forecasts Well we are deep into the security report season. What started as a drizzle with the RSA conference has turned into a torrent. Of course the Verizon Data Breach report has become the big dog of security reports, but it is far from alone. Many of these reports contain some great data and metrics. Read More Security Chalk Talk: How False Negatives Occur with Intrusion Prevention Systems Security Chalk Talk: How False Negatives Occur with Intrusion Prevention Systems Read More WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Advanced threat detection methods for securing remote users Remote users can introduce significant threats to your network. As employees and other business partners increasingly work from the road and remote offices, the risks have grown exponentially. To secure remote users, unique advanced threat detection solutions are needed. Learn more No reasonable expectation of privacy when third parties cross the creepy line? There's a "creepy line" when tech conveniences and capabilities seem to push too far into privacy rights; yet not everyone can be trusted to decide whether or not new technology used by the government crosses the "creepy line" and if Fourth Amendment protections should kick in. That includes SCOTUS, according to a former DHS official, who reduced the Supreme Court Justices to "nine Baby... Read More Data breaches 9% more costly in 2013 than year before It cost U.S. companies hit by data breaches last year an average of $5.4 million to cope with the after-effects – up 9% from the year before, according to the ninth annual Ponemon Institute study published Monday. Read More Open campus, security nightmare It sounds like a security oxymoron: Protect educational institutions that are meant to be, as Fitchburg State University information security officer (ISO) Sherry Horeanopoulos put it, "wide-open and unguarded." Read More Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks Symantec today announced its Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) effort for new products and managed security services to support enterprise customers in fending off targeted zero-day attacks in particular. One first step in this entails partnering with Check Point Software, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks to share threat detection information that can rapidly be integrated into Symantec endpoint protection software. Read More : RES Software Intuit Turns to Self-Service IT Intuit empowered its users to resolve their own IT issues with a consumer-like experience to free IT to focus on more strategic initiatives. See how Intuit got here Learn more Hackers capture dynamic data to prepare for effective, stealthy attacks "Offensive forensics is an attack technique hackers use to capture non-static data that can be useful in performing further attacks," says Joe Sremack, Principal, Berkeley Research Group, LLC, a computer forensics and e-discovery firm. Read More 10 Ways to Keep Windows XP Machines Secure Now that Microsoft's support for the popular Windows XP operating system has ended, you'll need to use every trick in the book to stop your machines from being compromised. Read More Aggressive, persistent Windows tech support scammers continue to stalk consumers Scammers pretending to be Microsoft support technicians continue to work the phones in search of victims and have grown bolder in their tactics. Read More 11 reasons encryption is (almost) dead Massive leaps in computing power, hidden layers, hardware backdoors -- encrypting sensitive data from prying eyes is more precarious than ever Read More 10 tips to attract women to infosec jobs Women make up just 11 percent of information security professionals.A Just increasing that number to 22 percent would solve the industry's staffing shortage problem. Read More
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