Security incident response teams are specialized teams that resolve security incidents such as cyber attacks and can be found in large corporations, both in the public and private sectors. These teams would normally have the technical expertise and authority to be able to perform their duties successfully. Building a security response entity within an...
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The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has proposed a framework for Businesses and Policymakers that would protect consumer privacy while encouraging the development of innovative new products and services. The draft focuses on three main elements which are the adherence to better privacy mechanisms by businesses throughout the whole process, provide simpler and meaningful privacy...
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The perceived security of some major entities may fail if tested, quite recently NASA’s security was challenged and found to lack some bolts! On February 23, a 26 year old Texas developer was charged of hacking into NASA’s networks. The federal court is charging him of wire fraud and computer hacking! Read the full...
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A survey by ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) back in November of 2009 showed that Confidentiality of corporate data, privacy, and data availability and integrity are the three main concerns of SMBs about Cloud Computing. Confidentiality of Corporate Data is definitely the main showstopper (holding back, no-go) amongst SMBs. A year and...
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The modern warfare keywords are becoming – Web attacks, messaging attacks, Botnets, Rootkits, Logic Bombs, Data Theft, etc…. McAfee estimates 1 Trillion USD in Cybercrime activities in a year! This is the world we are living today! battles are fought for information theft such as identity theft and data inaccessibility such as denial-of-service-attacks. The...
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No out-of-the-box system is secure, therefore, a computer system user needs to perform a set of tasks to secure his/her system. However, keep in mind that even after performing such tasks, your system is still not 100% secure but you would need to continuously monitor the system with the help of utilities and self-training....
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