Protecting intellectual property and sensitive information is a top security concern for any organization today. Co-workers need to share documents and files with colleagues, customers and partners on a daily basis, and frequently those items contain confidential information. The issue for IT is that “we want to give easy collaborative access, but we also need [...]
Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that include a web browser for collaborative functions, process management modules and a document management platform. The bottom line for management is that SharePoint empowers users to manage content effectively, improving workflow processes and helping people to make better and faster business decisions. The issue [...]
What is Outbound Content Compliance? Outbound Content Compliance (also outbound content security or OCC) is a new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect outbound content that violates the security policy of the organization and/or government regulations and prevent it leaving the organization. OCC deals with internal threats, either malicious or accidental, [...]
For years the software industry has promoted reduced privileges for user accounts as a key security best practice to prevent misuse and successful exploitation of end-point systems. There are two main rationales/assumptions that back up this strategy: A) malware requires administrative access to successfully exploit and compromise a system, and B) users without administrative access [...]
Just as Mobile World Congress 2011 was about to kick off with lots of pizzazz, hype and fanfare from the mobile industry, many enterprise IT managers would be feeling nervous. Many businesses might have started their love affair with mobile with a few executives innocently picking BlackBerrys, but mobile adoption has now become so widespread, [...]
Within these past few years, threats have evolved at a considerable pace. This can be seen from the proliferation of infection methods (from the diskette to web 2.0 and passing through e-mail), to the growing complexity of malicious codes and lastly, to a shift in the intentions of malicious network users. Cybercrime has pushed the [...]
The world of IT and security is changing. We’re moving from highly centralized infrastructures to a more federated approach, where relationships are loosely coupled, identities are scattered across systems, and we all live and work in the cloud. But such a move has exposed weaknesses in our IT systems—and prevented us from taking full advantage [...]
Absolute Software*1 and Intel deliver a new level of theft deterrence and data defence through integrated hardware and software technologies for notebook PCs. Computrace,* a leading IT asset-management and security solution from Absolute Software, is taking advantage of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel® AT),2 which is designed into system hardware. Through Computrace, an authorised information technology [...]
For one federal government agency, hiring contractors to handle IT administrative tasks was an expedient solution to soaring personnel costs. But then these IT contractors began walking out the door with full access to the agency’s powerful privileged accounts. Without a way to audit and control this access, the agency risked having its sensitive data [...]
Some major Cloud providers currently expose their clients’ data to the risk of compromise as a result of serious flaws in the implementation of their technologies. This is the key finding of a major new survey of the security of Cloud nodes completed by Context Information Security. The growing trend in migrating systems to use [...]
