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APTs: Minimizing losses with early detection
Let’s travel back to 2006, the year the blockbuster, “The Departed,” came out. Matt Damon plays a young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an …
DMARC: The time is right for email authentication
It is a rare thing to be given the opportunity to right a historic wrong. The root of essentially every Internet security issue in history is the same—architects try to build …
Infosec management strategies and the modern CTO
Lumenta recently appointed Brandon Hoffman as their new CTO. We took this opportunity to get his perspective on the management strategies that are essential in the information …
Bold reform needed to strengthen U.S cybersecurity
Mr. President, the status quo in cybersecurity is failing the U.S. It is failing the commercial sector, which is being publicly breached on a weekly basis, and it is failing …
Has the time come to give up penetration testing?
By carrying out “white hat’ attacks to identify potential entry points in the externally facing parts of an organization’s IT network, such as its firewalls, …
How to prepare if you’re selected for an OCR audit
The forthcoming Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits for HIPAA compliance have seen some delays this fall – but that doesn’t mean covered organizations can delay …
What is the value of professional certification?
Recognition for and therefore the value of professional certification is rising within the information security domain. In an increasing number of markets across Europe, …
Cost of breach vs. cost of deployment
In security terms, 2014 read like a who’s who of data breaches. Huge, global companies like Target, eBay and Coca-Cola have succumbed to data loss. Public services like …
Don’t look back in anger
At the end of the 2014, as at the end of many years before it, our mailboxes were filled with various vendors’ security predictions for 2015. We saw them also in …
Identity management trends in 2015
A new year is always an excellent time to look ahead. So, there’s not much of a better time than now to look at some of the identity management trends expected for the …
The ubiquitous social media “buy’ button and the journey of authentication
Earlier this year two of the world’s largest social media sites, Facebook and Twitter, announced the addition of “buy’ buttons to their offerings, giving …
Innovation must not come at the price of security
One of the main themes to come out of CES has been the advancement of the Connected Human. Whilst we can’t commute to work on a Hoverboard just yet, “Sent From My …
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