IT ‘Sprawl’ Spawning Security Gaps, Survey Finds
The steady shift toward purchasing IT "as a service" is accelerating the decentralization of infrastructure management, fostering growing security concerns as more enterprises shift operations to the cloud, according ...Full Article
Another IT Security Deal Targets Docker Containers
As enterprises seek ways to nail down IT security for a growing list of open-source infrastructure distributions, the security sector is moving toward critical mass with an increasing number ...Full Article
Targeting Open-Source Security Bugs
Seeking to spot potential security vulnerabilities in systems that increasingly rely on open source software, software license optimization vendor Flexera Software has acquired a specialist in identifying potentially vulnerable ...Full Article
Security Concerns Slowing Cloud Rollouts
Security remains the greatest barrier to cloud adoption as more mobile applications are hosted by outside software and infrastructure service providers, according to a new survey. The vendor poll ...Full Article
U.S. Cloud Shift Advances
U.S. government agencies' slog to the cloud, a journey that has lately been complicated by a new set of security requirements designed to fend off an outbreak of "nation-state" ...Full Article
Cloud Security Attracting More Investors
As more data, enterprise applications and other workloads move to public clouds, greater attention and investment are going into cloud security as a way to protect data while managing ...Full Article
Data Encryption in the Cloud Falls Short
As more data and enterprise applications are moved to public cloud services, a surprisingly high number of enterprises responding to a new cloud security survey said they are not ...Full Article
Industrial IoT Framework Targets Security
The brick and mortar of an industrial Internet of Things is arriving with a security framework designed to balance the safety and reliability requirements of industrial operations with an ...Full Article
Survey: Cyber Complacency Growing
Despite an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of cyber attacks, enterprises large and small claim they are doing enough to mitigate the effects of a data breach. ...Full Article
U.S. Announces First Cyber Chief
A retired Air Force General has been tapped to be the nation's first chief information security officer, the Obama administration announced this week. Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill previously ...Full Article