Insider Threats Still Making Headlines in 2014

This year has really been the year for the insider threats as employees or former employees have either maliciously or unintentionally caused data exposure. Even as late as November of this year a former employee of a major beverage company filed a lawsuit against the company because of negligence, breach of contract and a number of other violations. The data breech occurred over a six year period from 2007 to 2013, when a former...

This year has really been the year for the insider threats as employees or former employees have either maliciously or unintentionally caused data exposure....

With the rise of mobile devices in the workplace, businesses face a dilemma. Most want to gain the obvious benefits of mobility, yet they are uneasy about the significant risks involved. As you can see by walking around any public or business location today, everyone uses phones, laptops and tablets to get work done. There are proven benefits to mobility, which include happier employees, increased productivity, and greater business agility. Risks include everything from critical...

With the rise of mobile devices in the workplace, businesses face a dilemma. Most want to gain the obvious benefits of mobility, yet they are...

A recent article explained that “recovering from a data breach is like recovering from a skunk attack. No matter where or when you go in the house the stink still clings.” Obviously for those data breaches that have happened this year still have not had the dust settle as the impact of those breaches still linger. However, earlier in 2011 Sony’s PlayStation data breach exposed 77 million user personal account information. It wasn’twasen’t until...

A recent article explained that “recovering from a data breach is like recovering from a skunk attack. No matter where or when you go...

The recent spike in data breaches this year, 24,000 news stories to be exact, has led to record low levels of confidence amongst the public about data security, according to Deloitte. Last year alone, only 5,474 data breach news stores were reported, and even less in 2012 with 4,023. This number alone does not mean a greater number of data breaches, but the increase in news stories has definitely raised the awareness amongst the...

The recent spike in data breaches this year, 24,000 news stories to be exact, has led to record low levels of confidence amongst the...

The US government has spent billions of dollars over the last few decades trying to protect core networks, systems and infrastructure that are critical to government and civil operations. Despite this, experts say that cybersecurity has leaped over terrorism as the top threat to US security, because federal cybersecurity officials are still struggling to keep sensitive data from hackers and cyber criminals. Systems at numerous federal agencies, including the Pentagon, have suffered data breaches...

The US government has spent billions of dollars over the last few decades trying to protect core networks, systems and infrastructure that are critical...

We hear of a lot of insider threats these days with disgruntled employees who have been fired but earlier this month, a former COO of an on demand startup left the company due to tensions with the founders and landed a job with their competition to aid in the company’s international growth. The issue here is that before he left, the former executive has been accused of copying a treasure of confidential data to...

We hear of a lot of insider threats these days with disgruntled employees who have been fired but earlier this month, a former COO...

All the data breach headlines focus on hackers attacking unpatched servers and vulnerable networks as they try to steal valuable information from small and large companies. Large data breaches, like the recent revelations of stolen credit cards and email addresses from Home Depot and similar revelations from the US Postal Service, help solidify this in our minds. The reality is that a large percentage of data breaches come from the theft or loss of...

All the data breach headlines focus on hackers attacking unpatched servers and vulnerable networks as they try to steal valuable information from small and...

Last month a South Texas Veterans Health Care System alerted 4,000 veterans that their personal data had been exposed as a result of a printing error. In an another article, only 17% of businesses are using mobile printing due to concerns of security threats and in a recent research by Quocirca released in August over 90% of organizations have suffered at least one data breach due to unsecured printing. It all way too common...

Last month a South Texas Veterans Health Care System alerted 4,000 veterans that their personal data had been exposed as a result of a...

It is scary enough that intelligence officials say cyber security no trumps terrorism as the No. 1 threat to the U.S. With the most recent data breach attacks on the White House and Office of Personnel Management, this is just the tip of concern for the federal government. However, it gets even scarier when these breaches are insider threats on the nation’s critical infrastructure. Based on research from a recent article, in April 2011, a...

It is scary enough that intelligence officials say cyber security no trumps terrorism as the No. 1 threat to the U.S. With the most...

Software security faces a variety of challenges before to ensuring that the software is secure. The first is to correct the security defects no matter what the category is. The second is being able to cover a big enterprise-wide based portfolio of applications to ensure their security as well. Source code analysis, more specifically, static application security testing or otherwise known as SAST has come a long way since its induction back in the...

Software security faces a variety of challenges before to ensuring that the software is secure. The first is to correct the security defects no...

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