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Cyber criminals engage in hacker wars
The hacking community is a diverse lot, and big conflicts have been known to erupt with fury. Perhaps the most famous was the so-called Great Hacker War in the early 1990s, which featured the Masters
Forensic savvy key to fighting database hackers?
The security pros these days say database hacking has gotten a lot more sophisticated in part because the actual hackers are savvy to the traditional forensic tools that the good guys employ.
DLP, is the time now?
Data loss prevention, called DLP, is all about safeguarding your data, no matter where it resides--in databases, in file systems, and even in email. Data is exploding at most companies, which raises
Visa releases data encryption best practices
Visa has released end-to-end encryption best-practice guidelines that represent an initial stab at boosting efforts across companies "to develop a common, open standard while providing guidance to
Compliance issues abound over CRM
How do you know that one of your employees isn't gaming the CRM system, if only to get a peek at data that should be off limits? Well, frankly there's probably no way to be absolutely certain, but
Are you up to speed on data loss prevention?
The big boys have moved in. The likes of data loss prevention pioneers like Reconnex, Orchestria, Vontu, Provilla and Tablus have been swallowed up by McAfee, CA, Symantec, Trend Micro and RSA, which
An anonymous security manager weighs in
More business applications are being hosted on the web these days, including payroll and accounting apps. You can't stop the trend. But when security managers hear about such plans, there is often
Would you pass a data leak audit?
How would you measure up if a consultant came in to test your company for "data leaks?" Are you sure you would pass with flying colors? Would you be embarrassed? Security consultancy Networks
Banks deploy RFID in data center
We've certainly spent a lot of time discussing financial services data centers. Increasingly, they are a strategic imperative-- the new everything . So it makes sense to stay as organized as possible,
Do you have control of your logs?
IT departments typically generate all sorts of log files, which exhaustively note all the activity on a device, within an application or on a server--or who enters the building, for that matter. As
