Security Now Blog: Addressing Today's Information Security Issues

Business Partner Data Leak Prevention

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

If your business partners are accessing your sensitive data on your mission critical servers, you may find yourself living in excessively interesting times. (more…)

Data Leak Prevention and Network Access Protection (NAP)

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Bank of America, which recently acquired Countrywide Home Financial, is dealing with a very significant security breach that occurred on Countrywide’s watch. One of its employees, Rene Rebollo was recently arrested and charged for systematically copying around 2 million records onto a thumb drive. How is it that he managed to do this when all Countrywide PCs “had technology in place to disable flash drives on employee computers”? He used a different computer! (more…)