Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
Every week for the past four years the Privacy Rights Clearing House has been chronicling data breaches on a weekly basis. “These are the mega-breaches that can skew the figures in terms of the number of people victimized,” says Paul Stephens, PRCH’s director of policy and advocacy. Here are the ten biggest, most damaging and most embarrassing breaches to date this year.
SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Acquisition and deployment of real solutions is now within grasp of business owners (seemingly) without the need for conventional IT delivery and support. But many questions may go unanswered without engagement of EA, and latent risks (such as compliance and security) may turn into real issues.
Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Symantec isn’t the only company to forecast improved enterprise IT spending based on quarterly results in the past few weeks; executives at EMC, IBM, and Intel all spoke positively about IT budgets rebounding in the coming months.
Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to set expectations that we trust will be met. And as technologists, we have the capability to improve the state of privacy in the face of technological advances that might otherwise undermine it. Privacy is not an Illusion, it is a challenge.
Top Ten Email Related Disasters of 2009
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. There were the usual crop of Trojan horses and phishing expeditions, and as the surprising list points out, some of the scares go all the way up to White House and the FBI.
Major Security Hole in Time Warner Routers
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
An intruder could eavesdrop on sensitive data sent across the Internet, manipulate the DNS address that redirects traffic from trusted sites to malicious ones, and possibly even infect other routers automatically. Chen says he informed Time Warner’s security department of the hole; they responded that they were aware of the problem but couldn’t do anything about it.
Managing Your Internal Security Threats
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
For a long time I have been recapitulating concerns to enterprises about managing the internal threat. And with the recent economic downturn, layoffs and other sources of employee dissatisfaction are increasing the risks from internal threats. The fact is, corporate management must pay attention to the insider threat and implement policies and controls to manage it.
Swarm Intelligence Fights Worms with Ants
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Currently most security technology is reactive, taking action only against known threats that have been defined and can therefore be found. Researchers are hoping that by proactively scanning a network for unusual behavior, digital ants can discover zero-day threats before they do harm.
Idaho Tops The Most Spammed States Report
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Residents in states with a high concentration of small and medium-sized businesses are targeted most by spammers, according to a recent report by e-mail security vendor MessageLabs, a Symantec subsidiary that analyzes billions of inbound messages collected by its data centers around the world.
Seven Ways to Avoid Silos in the Cloud
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
As you consider the PaaS and IaaS for hosting and deploying new apps, remember that you are not alone. Your app will be one of many for your customers; and collaboration and integration require identity management and access control solutions.
