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All around the world, governments declare they are gearing up for cyber war. The term “Cyber war” seems to be on everyone’s lips again.
The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve. Read the rest of this entry »
Are you sure that the keyboard or mouse you are using today is the one that was attached to your computer yesterday? It might have been swapped for a compromised device that could transmit data to a snooper. Read the rest of this entry »
In the past, the security of the grid was based on isolation and obscurity. In the future, the ubiquity of Smart Grid elements will make physical and electronic isolation impossible.
As the saying goes, “Sometimes the paranoids are right.” You never know when you might need Technical surveillance counter-measures (TSCM).
A new “risk factors” list from consultancy BDO finds security worries about data leakage are not top of mind – at least as expressed in their SEC filings.
A global study of data breach costs conducted by the Ponemon Institute finds notification laws have dramatic impact on the price tag.
The emergence of the H1N1 virus and several severe weather-related events have shifted disaster recovery planning emphasis away from IT and data security threats toward pandemic planning and disaster recovery efforts, according to an annual study conducted by Varolii Corporation, a provider of on-demand business continuity communications.
Reducing risk associated with a new technology often requires a combination of overlapping management and technical policies. For example, simply publishing a policy that restricts peer-to-peer networking software may not be sufficient to protect against data leakage if the organization has not defined any controls around computing environments for remote workers. Since many data leaks occur through home-based networks, protection involves a blend of policies including desktop configuration control, acceptable use and physical and environmental controls. As an example, consider this sample policy for Internet Telecommuter Working Environments.
Is your organization ready for a cyberwar?
Finding more resistance than ever from large businesses, hackers are customizing their malware ploys for SMBs.
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