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Damian Harvey, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Vormetric, said Australian information technology professionals have yet to become fully aware of the damage an insider threat could bring to their companies. “We are still seeing organizations spend millions on perimeter defenses while neglecting to lock up their data or appropriately control access,†Harvey said Thursday. […] More
The Telecommunications Industry Association has submitted comments to the General Services Administration on a proposal to adopt cybersecurity standards for the federal acquisition and contracting process, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes that the group urged the GSA to allow for more flexibility in its proposed contractor security rules so innovation won’t be stifled. TIA […] More
SafeNet‘s Breach Level Index report indicates that hackers stole more than 200 million records in the first quarter of 2014, a 233 percent increase as compared to the same period last year. Only one percent of the 254 security incidents reported during Q1 were “secure breaches,” where encryption or authentication systems prevented hackers from using […] More
A new survey from Courion evaluated how the role of the information technology executive has changed and how the executive’s team tam function as a support system, Christopher Zannetos, president and CEO, said Tuesday. The report highlighted the multiple hats a chief information security officer wears as almost 60 percent of respondents see themselves as brand manager […] More
SAP is looking to fill 100 open positions at a newly-opened information technology consultancy center in Romania by the end of this year, Romania Insider reported Tuesday. The company aims to have 125 employees at the SAP Nearshore Delivery Unit Cluj-Napoca center by the end of 2015, according to the report. Nearly 30 employees currently work at the center with […] More
Raytheon worked with user feedback on previous versions of an insider threat and policy management product to include new features in an upgraded package. The company built PUMA Policy Pack to help users carry out continuous monitoring activities against attacks from privileged users within the network, Raytheon said Friday. It also introduced a software development kit […] More
Verizon Enterprise Solutions recommends that companies partner with a managed security service provider to defend their networks against cyberattacks as they turn to technologies such as mobility, big data and cloud. Janet Brumfield, the company’s director of corporate communications, said Tuesday that hybrid cybersecurity-management model is seen as the solution to meet these c0mpanies’ needs. Such needs involve “more sophisticated […] More
Nearly 90 percent of 450 North American businesses surveyed by Neustar experienced repeat distributed denial of service attacks in 2013. Data from Neustar’s “DDoS Attacks and Impacts Report” indicates that DDoS threats cost enterprises millions of dollars in downtime, brand damage and customer support, Neustar said Tuesday. Neustar found that more DDoS perpetrators use a”smokescreening” […] More
Boeing has integrated its simulation and intelligence training platform with root9B‘s cybersecurity training content to help users develop new cyber tools. The Boeing Cyber Range-in-a-Box is built to contain virtual scenarios from more than 120 courses on cyberattacks and help users customize material for information security professionals in training, Boeing said Thursday. “As cybersecurity threats grow in […] More
A new five-year forecast from research firm MarketsandMarkets says cloud computing adoption and wireless communications will be among the forces that will drive growth in the global cybersecurity market through 2019. The cyber market will hit a value of $155.74 billion by 2019 with the largest contribution coming from the aerospace, defense and intelligence vertical, MarketsandMarkets […] More
Mandiant has published a new report that analyzes the motives and targets of advanced threat attacks that occurred in 2013 and describes how malicious actors compromise enterprise data. Data from the FireEye subsidiary’s “Beyond the Breach” report indicates that 33 percent of organizations detected information security breaches on their own in 2013, compared with 37 percent a […] More
FireEye has updated a report that outlines techniques some malware authors use to evade a network infrastructure’s traditional defenses. The latest release of “Hot Knives Through Butter: Evading File-Based Sandboxes†adds four new stealth and evasion practices to the 11 already included in the August 2013 list, FireEye said Tuesday. The report says sandboxes isolate, […] More
