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	Security council blames breaches on poor PCI standard support "Best practices" guidance from PCI security group says compliance needs to be 365-day-a-year focus. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell Software   Anatomy Of A CyberAttack Do you know how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network? Cyber-criminals employ complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. Don't give the bad guys the keys to your network. Learn how to protect your organization from emerging threats in our e-book. Read Now In this Issue 11 Internet of Things ideas worth watching Three security practices that IoT will disrupt Vulnerabilities on the decline, but risk assessment is often flawed, study says says Toss routers with hardcoded passwords, expert says New malvertising campaign hit visitors of several high-profile sites Why physical security (and InfoSec!) still matter Netflix open sources internal threat monitoring tools Retailers urged to defend against 'Backoff' point-of-sale malware Hot products at VMworld 2014 WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks   Cloud Adoption & Risk Report Reveals Top 20 Cloud Services Based on anonymized data from over 10 million users across over 200 companies, the Skyhigh Cloud Adoption and Risk Report has become the de-facto data source on cloud adoption and risk View Now>> 11 Internet of Things ideas worth watching Cisco solicits IoT ideas in Innovation Grand Challenge Read More   Three security practices that IoT will disrupt As the Internet of Things comes into being, vendors are feverishly making internet-connected devices ranging from refrigerators to light bulbs, but often they do so on a shoestring budget that doesn't include sophisticated analysis of how secure they are from network attacks. Read More   Vulnerabilities on the decline, but risk assessment is often flawed, study says says The good news is that IBM X-Force predicts the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities will drop under 8,000 this year for the first time since 2011. The bad news is that fewer vendors are publicly reporting vulnerabilities. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Spanning Warning: Cloud Data at Risk Experts agree that relying on SaaS vendors to backup and restore your data is dangerous. Yet that's exactly what huge portions of the business world are doing, according to the results of an exclusive new survey from IDG Research. Learn More Toss routers with hardcoded passwords, expert says Security experts recommend that business replace a flawed router that Trend Micro reports has a backdoor that hackers could use to monitor Internet traffic. Read More   New malvertising campaign hit visitors of several high-profile sites Recent malicious advertisements have been placed on popular Web sites, redirecting visitors to sites that download software that turn enlist victim machines into botnets. Read More   Why physical security (and InfoSec!) still matter With ever increasing numbers of electronic break-ins compromising more and more data it's tempting to overlook network physical security, but it's important to remember that protecting the actual hardware infrastructure is just as important. Read More   WHITE PAPER: OpenMarket How CIOs Can Guide the Enterprise to Mobile Success In this paper we look at the new, front-line role of IT and security, specifically within enterprises using mobile messaging technologies, and suggest ways to mitigate risk and avoid costly mistakes and pitfalls. View Now>> Netflix open sources internal threat monitoring tools Netflix is making public some tools it uses to track whether attackers are considering attacking its services by monitoring public Web discussions and analyzing the results. Read More   Retailers urged to defend against 'Backoff' point-of-sale malware The PCI Security Standards Council says the Backoff malware is 'a very real threat' Read More   Hot products at VMworld 2014 Click through all the products being released at VMworld this week Read More
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