Expert analysis

Most information security experts will agree that employees form the weakest link when it comes to corporate information security. Malicious insiders aside, well-intentioned …

Jim Bibles is a Product Manager at Qualys currently directing the development and enhancement of the company’s QualysGuard PCI solution. His security background ranges …

Kaspersky Internet Security is security software that offers protection against viruses, spyware, spam, identity theft and phishing. It also has parental and privacy controls. …

Thomas Wilhelm is an associate professor at Colorado Technical University and also employed at a Fortune 20 company performing penetration testing and risk assessments and has …

DataInherit, a new online data storage service with built-in data inheritance has been offered by DSwiss AG, a Swiss bank for information assets owned partly by Avantec. …

Daniel B. Cid is the founder of the open source OSSEC HIDS and a principal researcher at Trend Micro. He has a special interest in intrusion detection, log analysis and secure …

In this day and age, nobody can afford NOT to use encryption, and the sooner we all get used to using it on a daily basis, the better. We live in a world where secrets are …

Eric Perraudeau is the product manager for QualysGuard vulnerability management (VM) solutions. Prior to Qualys, Eric was a security engineer at Accor and Morse in France. In …

Harlan Carvey, CISSP, is a computer security engineer and book author. He has conducted penetration tests and vulnerability assessments in support of corporate and federal …

Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Breaker breaks passwords and unlocks password-protected MS Word documents and Excel spreadsheets instead of attacking and recovering complex …

This paper discusses Firewire-based physical security attacks on Microsoft Windows 7. In the course of his research, the author was successfully able to bypass the Windows 7 …

IT departments are under immense pressure to deliver more functionality and capacity at a time when budgets are shrinking and costs are increasing. Mounting expenses from …