Tag: Promoting Security
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Survey: Organisations fail to educate employees about risks from online shopping
Organisations allow employees to shop online but do not educate users about risks, exposing employees and employers alike to spam, malware, phishing and loss of productivity in the workplace
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UK Online Identities Worth £14,500 To Online Criminals
A survey conducted by Get Safe Online and backed by Microsoft, SOCA and the Government, showed that the average identity is worth roughly £14,500 to online criminals but can be purchased for as little as £80
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Getting Back to Fundamentals – Shouldn’t That Mean…Prioritizing the Database?
I recently read a post on ZDNet by Adam O’Donnell where he offers up some predictions on the IT Security sector in the wake of the broader economy struggling
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Comment: Databases Should Record Who Alters Information, Says BCS Speaker
People who create, modify or delete data should have their actions recorded and linked with the outcome to help tackle the problem of illegal or inappropriate alterations to databases
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Infection Kits and Your Databases: Are You Serving Up Viruses?
During my regular presentations and speaking events on database security, I often discuss emerging threats and trends. It’s a constantly changing landscape, so these new threats are also constantly changing.
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New UK Police e-Crime Unit Seriously Under-funded To Tackle Global Internet Crime
The UK government has announced that it will set up a Police Central e-Crime Unit which will take on the rising threat of credit card and specialised frauds that happen online and affect en estimated four million Britons annually
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Comment : "Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle Methodology is Working"
Application vulnerability specialist, Fortify Software, says that after being in pole position in the reported security incident charts for the whole of 2007, Microsoft has dropped to third slot in IBM's X-Force mid-year security analysis
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ISC 2 Certification Promises To Reduce Software Vulnerabilities
ISC 2 has come up with an IT professional certification course that aims to reduce security vulnerabilities by validating security issues throughout the entire software life cycle
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It's the Privileged Activity You're After....Not Just the Privileged Users
It’s a problem that I see organizations struggling with every day. An audit finding has come down requiring the monitoring of privileged users in databases containing sensitive or regulated data
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Comment : Full Disk Encryption should be a legal requirement for any organisation that holds personally identifiable data
The most recently publicised data breach, the loss of a portable hard drive containing the details of up to 5,000 prison staff follows hot on the heels of news that a laptop was sold on eBay reputedly containing banking details of one million customers of a high street financial institution, and the loss of a USB stick containing details of 84,000 prisoners
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