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Has the time come to give up penetration testing?
By carrying out “white hat’ attacks to identify potential entry points in the externally facing parts of an organization’s IT network, such as its firewalls, …
How to prepare if you’re selected for an OCR audit
The forthcoming Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits for HIPAA compliance have seen some delays this fall – but that doesn’t mean covered organizations can delay …
What is the value of professional certification?
Recognition for and therefore the value of professional certification is rising within the information security domain. In an increasing number of markets across Europe, …
Cost of breach vs. cost of deployment
In security terms, 2014 read like a who’s who of data breaches. Huge, global companies like Target, eBay and Coca-Cola have succumbed to data loss. Public services like …
Don’t look back in anger
At the end of the 2014, as at the end of many years before it, our mailboxes were filled with various vendors’ security predictions for 2015. We saw them also in …
Identity management trends in 2015
A new year is always an excellent time to look ahead. So, there’s not much of a better time than now to look at some of the identity management trends expected for the …
The ubiquitous social media “buy’ button and the journey of authentication
Earlier this year two of the world’s largest social media sites, Facebook and Twitter, announced the addition of “buy’ buttons to their offerings, giving …
Innovation must not come at the price of security
One of the main themes to come out of CES has been the advancement of the Connected Human. Whilst we can’t commute to work on a Hoverboard just yet, “Sent From My …
The coming shift in security
Vendors continue to trumpet new platforms as the best way to improve enterprise-level security. Flashy spinning visualizations, added scalability and the meaningless …
Top 3 reasons businesses should prioritize web security
2014 was a year of high-profile hacks for businesses around the world. From The Home Depot breach to the recent Sony data leak, it seemed like as soon as one data breach was …
The one compliance lesson you need to learn
We are living in a data driven society with globalizing economies, data transfer, and ubiquitous access to everything from everywhere. At the same time, we have seen an influx …
Four cyber security risks not to be taken for granted
It’s pretty difficult to make information security predictions, and even more difficult to verify them afterwards: we can only judge the effectiveness of information …
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