This year has been the best of times and the worst of times for open source code and security. On the one hand, the latest survey by Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners shows that 72 percent of industry professionals prefer open source software because it’s more secure than proprietary solutions. On the […]
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Women make up just 11 percent of information security professionals. Just increasing that number to 22 percent would solve the industry’s staffing shortage problem. Unfortunately, at most companies, the recruitment process is designed to attract the kind of people who already work there. Changing that requires conscious effort. Here are some tips that might help.
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While there are plenty of standardized methods for penetration testing that we’re all familiar with, the bad guys aren’t sticking to traditional methods for their attacks anymore. So it’s time for the good guys to start thinking outside the box, too: here are a few creative methods to pen test your organization and see
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Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find weaknesses that need to be addressed. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is an industry standard, but has been around for a while. The bad guys, however, aren’t limiting themselves to the traditional perimeter attacks anymore. They’re using spear
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Cover story These days, there’s no shortage of new business technologies and new threat vectors to the enterprise. But what many companies forget is that old technologies pose risks as well, and those risks aren’t going away. In fact, as your legacy systems continue to get more out-of-date while the world around them continues to
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Even as women have made dramatic advances in medicine, law, and other fields, the proportion of women pursuing undergraduate degrees in the computer sciences has actually been dropping, from around 30 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2010, according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation. As a result, according to the
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If you’re trying to decide which device to buy for your next trip because your current laptop is too old, too slow, too heavy and just plain too embarrassing; or, conversely, too new and too expensive to risk a mishap on the road, consider a Chromebook. Here are 10 reasons why. Read full article at
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Rogue employees, hackers, government employees all threats to keeping information stored on the cloud private Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA spying may have brought the issue of cloud security to broad public attention, but some enterprise users were already concerned about how to take advantage of cloud-based applications while keeping their data safe. As a
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Of all the virtual currencies out there, BitCoin is the most interesting from a technical perspective – and the least interesting from the business point of view. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency that uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. Unlike all other currencies, BitCoin is completely independent. “It is company
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Amazon’s infamous cloud outage in April brought down a number of popular Web sites, including foursquare and Reddit – but many of Amazon’s enterprise cloud customers were able to weather the storm without experiencing downtime. They architected their systems for resiliency by using multiple availability zones, having hot backups in traditional data centers, or having
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1. Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. There are two parts to the data encryption challenge – encrypting stored data, and encrypting data that’s moving over public networks, says security expert Brian Reed, vice president of products at mobile security vendor BoxTone. SSL encryption on the iPad is a fast and convenient way to protect data in motion.
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