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Seventy-six percent of organizations in the U.S. and U.K. have suffered a DNS attack, with 49 percent experiencing one in the past 12 months, according to Cloudmark. The most …

Companies around the world have reason to be worried about the use of cloud applications to share mission-critical information. In fact, 1 in 5 employees has uploaded …

NOTE: This book is no longer available, thanks for your interest. APTs have changed the world of enterprise security and how networks and organizations are attacked. These …

As the number of data breaches in the U.S. reached 708 in 2014, new research shows that companies are investing millions in privacy and multiple business units are now …

A combination of irresponsible user behavior and weaknesses in the protection of networks could create more risks for data breaches during the holiday period than at any other …

The global Web application firewall (WAF) market was once primarily driven by regulatory requirements to protect Web applications and the sensitive customer data they collect. …

At the heart of HIPAA lies a set of core security tenets for which every affected organization is responsible. These fundamentals are absolutely non-negotiable – but the …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Software security in a market for lemons Programming has always been …

The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance published final 1.0 drafts of its two specifications – Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) and Universal 2nd Factor (U2F). …

Recent events – both in the United States and in Japan – have forced IT administrators everywhere to reevaluate the possibility of insider threats. Because of …

Security and efficiency are constant concerns in enterprise IT. The popularity of BYOD has been a boon for improved productivity and collaboration, but it has also created a …

The rapid move towards virtualization and cloud infrastructure is delivering vast benefits for many organizations. In fact, Gartner has estimated that by 2016, 80% of server …