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Security holes that’ll keep you up at night: Your end-users (aka The Weakest Link)

by Tim Burke
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Laptop with a chain and lock to symbolize internet security.

These days, your end-users have usually become the weakest link in your data security chain, so attacks are shifting from the server side to the client side, notably to mobile devices like smartphones.

 

 

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Protecting the value of your business: Products Do Not Equal a playbook that works

by Tim Burke
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Image of a laptop with a bank vault on the screen. To symbolize data security.

I can’t emphasize this enough: All of the technology products and services an organization devotes to securing its data, applications, systems, and networks have but one aim — to protect the value of the business.

 

Conversely, every data breach reduces the value of the business — and there are more data breaches every year.

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Beware the Malware Pandemic

by Tim Burke
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Image depicts the dangers of Malware infected computers

About a year ago, a routine enterprise security analysis turned up 75 gigabytes of stolen data. Thus began the discovery of the ‘Kneber botnet’, which had hijacked 74,000 computers at more than 2,500 organizations around the world.

 

Operating undetected for a year, the Kneber botnet’s 74,000 ‘zombies’ stole 68,000 corporate logins to e-mail accounts, online banking accounts, and a variety of public email and social networking sites. It also grabbed nearly 2,000 SSL certificate files used to secure the likes of online banking transactions. More...

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