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Despite cyber-security having sky-rocketed to the top of boardroom discussion agendas, an average of 35 per cent of all cyber-attacks still go undetected. Recent IDC research, sponsored by SAS, shows that organisations need to shift from reactive to proactive strategies that seek to understand a threat before an attacker can cause damage. To do this, they require a new set of security solutions to match the increasing number and sophistication of attacks. SAS Cyber-security, which...

Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer and leader in transforming endpoint security using micro-virtualization, has announced the results of its “State of Security Report Card,” a survey of more than 100 information security professionals at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The survey results reveal that legacy solutions such as firewalls and antivirus are failing to prevent attacks and address the priorities set by their CISOs. “The results of this survey serve as yet another proof point in...

The latest innovation from NetClean helps digital investigators ‘see’ the relationships between digital evidence hidden inside photo and video files. NetClean today launches the new version of Analyze DI 15.1, which incorporates Analyze Relations, an industry first capability for visual navigation that actively suggests relationships between millions of data points pertaining to digital media. The software identifies relationships by comparing multiple types of data collected from this type of digital media – including what camera was...

Fifty-two per cent of IT directors’ spend with outsourcing suppliers is focused on reducing the cost of IT, rather than achieving business benefits, according to research from technology company MooD International. This is despite the fact that only 21 per cent of IT directors and their teams cite cost reduction as the area that the outsourcing partner’s use is the most critical. Revenue generation and growth are named as the most important initiatives in the...

Blackphone, the Smartphone from encryption and privacy firm Silent Circle is on show at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London as part of their new exhibition ‘All Of This Belongs To You’. The ‘All of This Belongs to You’ exhibition includes three specially curated displays, among which is ‘Ways to be Secret’, which examines “the contradiction between our concern for online privacy and our obsession with sharing via social media". The Blackphone is featured...

Make your awareness campaign engaging, at the level of the person you are targeting and make it last long enough to succeed. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, CISO Thom Langford said that awareness campaigns need to be about more than just putting up some posters as that will not stop people from doing the wrong things. He said: “It is a habit to get through, so why are looking at this in a...

Catastrophic issues in security can occur, but there are ways to recover. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, Bruce Schneier, CTO of Resilient Systems, highlighted the Sony Pictures attack as being an interesting case as it brings catastrophic risk uses to the fore, and not catastrophic as in a life ending sense, but in company terms. He highlighted seven ways in which a catastrophic incident could be dealt with. Firstly he recommended keeping it...

Costa Coffee has informed members of its loyalty scheme that it has detected unusual activity on some accounts. In an email seen by IT Security Guru, it says that it has conducted a full security review and in the interim, removed the ability to access user's Coffee Club account online. It said: “We have already contacted those customers affected and we are taking the additional precaution to reset the account passwords of every Coffee Club...

Partnerships between the USA and UK are important not just for Government, but for other Goverments and for private industry too. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, Michael Daniel special assistant to the President and cyber security coordinator and Natalie Black, deputy director of the Office of Cyber Security & Information Assurance (OCSIA) at the Cabinet Office, were keen to promote initiatives on enhancing skills, information sharing and success stories, such as the takedown...

Threat intelligence can be a great value-added tool for businesses if it is data collection capabilities are used effectively. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, Mark Orlando, director of cyber operations at Foreground Security said that there is “a lot more to intelligence than indicators and leveraging it for response”. He said that as a tool for defence, threat intelligence is dead as IDS signatures are not subject to quality control, have a short...