With the upcoming release of Windows 10, Microsoft plans to inaugurate 24/7, cloud-based patching, among other new security features. Businesses can tap the anytime patches or define their own patch-release schedules.
The demand for improved governance and risk management is huge in Dubai and neighbouring regions, as global players embark on ambitious projects. Smartworld's Ahmad Qurram Baig discusses the CISO's responsibilities.
Oman is dealing with the challenge of increasing cyber incidents and a rise in cybercrime and so on. How does Oman's CERT address this surge? OCERT's head, Al Salehi, shares his 2015 cybersecurity agenda.
One year after Sally Beauty Supply revealed that a network breach compromised payment card data and exposed 25,000 records, the company says it is investigating new breach reports. Did it fail to eradicate the original intrusion?
Is there a governance structure that can protect your network and customer data against future attacks? Oman Insurance's Bhatia discusses how security and business alignment is critical to data security.
Do CISOs need mentoring? Daniel Lohrmann shares insights on the importance of mentoring CISOs to enable them to spot growth opportunities and also to build up their interpersonal skills.
The Federal Aviation Administration has failed to integrate cybersecurity fully in its Next Generation Air Transportation Systems, as well as the current National Airspace System, a new federal report says.
97% of Financial Services respondents report being somewhat or more vulnerable to insider threats. This Research Brief highlights the results collected online by Harris Poll from 102 IT decision makers in U.S. financial services enterprises in the Fall of 2014. U.S. results are compared, where applicable, to findings...
Healthcare data (Personal Health Information [PHI] and other personal data held by healthcare organizations) has become one of the most desirable commodities for sale on "black" Internet sites, and for good reason. Healthcare records typically contain enough detail to not only apply for credit cards or loans, but can...
In the past, insider threats resulted mainly from employees with access to financial data or other secret and sensitive information. That's no longer the case today. Today, employees with legitimate access, service providers or contractors that maintain infrastructure and privileged users are all possible actors, and...
In the past few years, Vormetric has been busy showing the world that it's no longer just your father's file and database encryption vendor. Since the launch of its Vormetric Data Security platform strategy in early 2014, the company has been hard at work extending the platform's capabilities with new features and...
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
Gulf Air in the Middle East has become one of the region's early adopters of the cloud. What are the challenges for security team to secure data in the cloud? Gulf Air's Jassim Haji shares insight.
The House Judiciary Committee, in passing a tailored bill to end the NSA's bulk collection program of phone records, rejected amendments to expand privacy reforms to other government surveillance initiatives.
Companies are increasingly reliant on storing sensitive data in cloud storage, which could be vulnerable to security threats and violate compliance requirements. At the same time, data breaches continue to grow more prevalent and costly. The Vormetric Cloud Encryption Gateway is a scalable solution that provides...
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