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Who are you? The identity perimeter

With use all over the place and applications being sourced on-demand, it is a long time since firewalls have marked the absolute perimeter of a given organisations IT usage. New approaches to identity management may be the answer. [Read More...] View full post on IT-Director.comhttp://www.GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.Locatepc.net, http://stolencomputeralert.com, http://computersecurityexpert.net, http://www.hackerforhireusa.com, http://www.GregoryDEvans.net, AmIHackerProof.com, http://ParentSecurityOnline.com, http://TheCyberWars.com, http://hiphopsecurity.com, http://HackerForHireinternational.com, [...]

When is a cloud not (quite) a cloud?

The definition of cloud computing by NIST is quite definitive – but is a missing of one small point enough to make a cloud just a bit of advanced virtualisation? [Read More...] View full post on IT-Director.com High Tech Crime Solutions http://www.GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.Locatepc.net, http://stolencomputeralert.com, http://computersecurityexpert.net, http://www.hackerforhireusa.com, http://www.GregoryDEvans.net, AmIHackerProof.com, http://ParentSecurityOnline.com, http://TheCyberWars.com, http://hiphopsecurity.com, http://HackerForHireinternational.com, http://www.computersecurityguru.com, http://computer-security-expert.com

Google Panda & Penguin – How to Identify Problems and Recover Rankings

Google has been tweaking its algorithms (the systems it uses to identify how relevant it’s links are to the search terms entered) over the years, with a view to improving the user experience. Find out what these changes mean for you. [Read More...] View full post on IT-Director.com Hi Tech Crime Solutions http://www.GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.Locatepc.net, http://stolencomputeralert.com, [...]

Machine to machine (M2M) needs to smarten up its act

There are many opportunities surrounding the universal connection of smart devices, sometimes termed ‘the internet of things’, but is too much attention on the technology and networks deflecting attention from where it should really be? [Read More...] View full post on IT-Director.com Hi Tech Crime Solutions http://www.GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.Locatepc.net, http://stolencomputeralert.com, http://computersecurityexpert.net, http://www.hackerforhireusa.com, http://www.GregoryDEvans.net, AmIHackerProof.com, http://ParentSecurityOnline.com, http://TheCyberWars.com, [...]

“My Hugo” — Haley compares response to hacking case to storm response

WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed an executive order to allow 24/7 monitoring of all computer systems within state government in order to avoid another hack that could compromise the identities of millions of South Carolinians. The first is the [...]

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Valassis Communications Supports Cyber Bullying?

  Valassis Communications Supports Cyber Bullying COULD THE LARGEST CYBER BULLY SCOT TERBAN AND HACKER BE EMPLOYED IN CORPORATE AMERICA? “It has been a long journey,” Gregory Evans the Founder of LIGATT Security International.“Over 25 private investigators, in 5 countries on 3 continents.  Two federal and one state lawsuit. Twenty five subpoenas on every social [...]

Amazon cloud services: AWS Marketplace offers one-click cloud security

The new AWS Marketplace, launched by Amazon last week, is an interesting development on the cloud security front. The Amazon cloud services marketplace allows customers to choose from a menu of various software products and SaaS services, and launch the applications in their EC2 environments with one click. Several security applications are among the options, [...]

The big issue to address in 2012 – facing up to consumerisation

Consumerisation is a widely talked about topic in IT circles, including the use of personal devices and consumer focus web-apps. This article discusses how to enable the productive and secure use of employee owned smartphones and tablets. [Read More...] View full post on IT-Director.com Other links you may like: Gregory Evans, LocatePC, Fake Emails go [...]

Spam filter gets better of Microsoft SDL—almost

You’d have to be a serious security curmudgeon to try to pick holes in the Microsoft SDL. The company’s security development lifecycle grew out of the Trustworthy Computing initiative, which turned 10 years old this year, and in many organizations, it sets the standard for secure development practices. At a minimum, it put secure development [...]

Are firms right to outsource scanning for flaws?

On-demand software offers a number of benefits over applications installed and managed on a company’s own premises. These benefits include infrastructure costs being shared among multiple customers, and the availability of experts dedicated to running the app, which frees up in-house resources for other tasks. But the nature of the app can determine the extent [...]

Organisations aren’t performing device configuration backups with the diligence that they should

Organisations aren’t performing device configuration backups with the diligence that they should By: Bob Tarzey, Service Director, QuocircaPublished: 18th April 2012 Copyright Quocirca © 2012 Most IT users will have suffered the frustration of losing work because their access device (PC, tablet, smartphone etc.) fails and has not been backed up, or indeed they may [...]

Disclosing security breaches in SMEs

For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the need to protect regulated data is a big enough headache. Now they must add to the pain with the coming decree under the new Data Protection Framework that when a breach occurs and such data leaks into the public domain, the breach needs to be disclosed to the [...]

Cloud security vendors win funding for technologies

The rush to the cloud can often make security an afterthought, but if recent funding announcements are any indication, the VC community wants to reverse that trend. CloudPassage, Cloud Lock and Symplified are among the cloud security vendors winning funding this year. San Francisco-based CloudPassage announced last week that it won $14 million in funding. [...]

Experts differ on European ‘cookie law’ advice

Many IT managers in the U.K. are in a quandary right now as they decide how, and how far, to comply with the impending European “cookie law.” IT managers in the U.S. will soon face the same dilemma. Beginning May 26, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will enforce the privacy and electronic communications regulations [...]

Customer support becomes a social service

Anyone who has had reason to contact a large organisation – bank, telecoms company, utility, government department – will have noticed some changes in the last decade or so in how these organisations communicate. There has been a shift from having a physical presence to communicating via telephone and/or online; visiting a branch office has [...]

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