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Division of CISO responsibilities may prevent burnout
Chief information security officers (CISOs) have a lot on their plate. Between data protection, malware detection, compliance regulations, social media security, mobile device management (MDM) and many more areas that fall into the realm of the security team, the CISO is obliged to wear many hats each day. A recent survey by IBM highlighted this [...]
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Peter Kuper: VCs renewing their love affair with security companies
Information security spending is thought to be recession proof, but does it have the legs to outrun the current downturn? In-Q-Tel partner Peter Kuper thinks so, but there are still some rough times ahead. Kuper, who has handled some high-profile IPOs in the security market, told Information Security Decisions 2012 attendees this week in New [...]
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Cloud security issues: Provider transparency, data-centric security
At an event last week in San Francisco that covered a variety of cloud security issues, infosec expert Kevin Walker told attendees to be aggressive with cloud service providers and hold them accountable when it comes to security. “The key for us practitioners is to go into this with eyes wide open,” said Walker, who has [...]
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Going after the middlemen in the fight against financial cybercrime
In the world of financial cybercrime, there are three primary groups of fraudsters at work. First up are the developers who write the applications to grab credit card and bank account data. In the middle are the “carders” who sell the ill-gotten data to, if you will, end users. The final [...]
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Organizations lagging on cloud security training, survey shows
Symantec recently released some interesting findings from a survey the company conducted with the Cloud Security Alliance at the CSA Summit in February. The survey went beyond the usual sorts of basic questions to delve into organizations’ knowledge of cloud security. The results - albeit from a small sample size (128 respondents) — were a [...]