Expert analysis

Every company that sells cyber security technology markets how their tools will “defend”, “stop threats” and “protect”. There is no doubt that the technologies that exist …

Honeypots – decoy systems used for learning cyber attackers’ capabilities and potential objectives – can be very useful to organizations, businesses, and …

This June Patch Tuesday we have a slightly smaller patch load from Microsoft, taking us back to more historic average releases of eight bulletins. We have just two critical …

After a great deal of debate and delay, the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) finally saw a substantive update in December 2014. For federal agencies and the …

Microsoft is ready to abandon the longstanding patching schedule that saw patches and security updates being delivered on the second Tuesday of every month. With the advent of …

Cookies are the official and standard and preferred way of keeping state in the (otherwise) stateless HTTP protocol. They are sometimes used for keeping track of a user beyond …

We are living in a data driven society with globalizing economies, data transfer, and ubiquitous access to everything from everywhere. From information gateways, websites, …

Another drone was discovered flying in restricted air space around the White House two weeks ago. The Secret Service found the pilot simply because they happened to see him. …

When the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed, it fell on corporate security teams to translate its requirements into technical controls. That threw the IT Security function …

The privacy and security of corporate data is at risk like never before. Not only are businesses faced with an ever-growing variety of security threats, from sophisticated, …

Everywhere you look, it seems to be that everything is becoming “smart”. On my wrist, I frequently wear a smart watch that monitors how many steps I take, what my heart rate …

Data leaks and other news events over the past few years have brought insider threats to the forefront of public attention, but most companies still lack the means or …