Security Now Blog: Addressing Today's Information Security Issues

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

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…)

Many perceive anti-virus software as providing ‘fire and forget’ endpoint protection. It does not!

Many factors can interfere with the proper operation of these and other security tools such as anti-spyware, personal firewalls, and disk encryption.

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