Don’t be too hasty to link every Poison Ivy-based cyber attack to China. The popular remote access tool (RAT), which we recently detailed on this blog, is being used in a broad campaign of attacks launched from the Middle East, too.
Browsing: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Google, Iran’s nuclear enrichment plant, the government of Pakistan, the US department of defense… many of the largest enterprises and governments have been victims of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) during the last two years.
Your status updates and tweets could be revealing more than you think
As businesses embrace BYOD, network engineers have to face up to the security implications of random, roving personal devices connecting to the corporate WLAN and accessing networked applications and data.
Michael Brophy, Certification Europe’s CEO, highlights why the human element is the weakest part of your information security system and sets out how to prevent data breaches.
The certification of a mobile-security sandboxing platform from Good Technology to EAL4+ standards will pave the way for the use of application-isolation techniques to secure mobile and bring your own device
With yesterday’s announcement by Apple of the new iPhone 5S, featuring Touch ID, their embedded fingerprint sensor, we are seeing an important change in the modern authentication landscape.
In their book, “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard” authors Chip and Dan Heath examine how influencing humans to change requires appealing to two parts of the brain: the rational and the emotional.
LONDON (UK) – September 11, 2013 – Varonis Systems Inc. , the leading provider of access, governance and retention solutions for human-generated data, today announced the launch of the Varonis Data Governance Suite 5.9,
Russia is a booming market for startups as the county’s Internet access and 4G networks ramp up. It’s now the biggest single market in Europe, passing Germany a year ago. At the same time the government realises it needs to ween the economy off its historical addiction to oil, gas and heavy industry. Thus it’s helped set up the Skolkovo Foundation to incubate tech companies. Skolkolvo brought a selection of its startups to Disrupt, so we went trawling the booths for a few Russian gems. Here’s what we found.
Choister
“Choister is a service that helps search, analyze and compare all available educational programs.
Whether you are looking for a degree or a certificate, online or offline, full-time or part-time — Choister will make it easier for you. Choister finds all the educational programs, structures the data, helps users make smart choices, and then sends the motivated students to the schools’ websites.”