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Is your network suffering from the trombone effect?
Trombones are wonderful instruments. These brass beauties are mainstays of any marching band, dutifully producing a bouncing bass tone. Some trombones, however, generate a …
Enhancing email security in Office 365
The need for corporate security has never been greater. Identity theft remains a lucrative crime, and we read about a major hack nearly every day. Companies moving to Office …
Data security for the borderless enterprise
With the advent of cloud computing, social media and mobility, data is moving and proliferating at pace across borders, platforms and applications, very rarely staying within …
Encryption: Whose keys are they, anyway?
Over the past year, encryption has been showing up in a number of unlikely places. It started when Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt proclaimed that encrypting everything …
The Lord of the Hacktivist Rings
Cyber attacks against websites have been around for about a decade. Considering this, an important question to ask is: what makes one company considered high risk, and what …
The cost of EMV compliance
Credit card companies are making the final call for US merchants to switch over to EMV chip technology in anticipation of the looming deadline. Merchants now have less than …
Internet of Things: Security misconceptions, expectations, and the future
Nitesh Dhanjani is a well-known security researcher, writer, and speaker. He is currently Executive Director, Cybersecurity, at Ernst & Young, where he advises C-suite …
The White House sprints to lock down data
US government Chief Information Officer (CIO) Tony Scott has been working with federal agencies to complete 30-day “cyber sprints” to patch gaping holes in US …
How talking to recognition technologies will change us
Ernest Hemmingway once said, “I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” Perhaps, like most of the things we do, technology will absolve …
End-to-end encryption is key for securing the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest buzzwords these days. It seems like almost everything is being connected, including cars, streetlights, oil rigs, wearables …
Rudra: Framework for automated inspection of network capture files
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2015, Ankur Tyagi, Malware Research Engineer at Qualys, talks about Rudra, a framework for automated inspection of network capture …
Best practices for ensuring compliance in the age of cloud computing
When was the last time you heard someone utter the sentence, “I’m looking forward to the audit next week.” Most likely, never. Since its invention, the word “audit” has struck …
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