Security
NSA Contributes Security Tools For Puppet
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs has announced a new partner: The U.S. National Security Agency. Puppet Labs said Friday (June 19) that NSA is releasing to the open source ...Full Article
Red Hat Survey Highlights Container Certification
Production deployment of Linux application containers may not be meeting expectations, but there is no shortage of industry surveys attempting to pinpoint barriers to adoption. The latest released on ...Full Article
Slam the Door Against Insider Threats
When a banker falls behind on the mortgage, a physician gets arrested for driving under the influence, or a contractor is working on a sensitive federal construction site under ...Full Article
Bring Shadow IT Out of the Dark, Gartner Tells Tech
Mention shadow IT to many technology professionals and they'll shudder before trading war stories. But to empower their organizations to innovate, grow, and succeed, IT departments must embrace and manage this ...Full Article
To Improve Cybersecurity, Fire Some CEOs
Despite the amazing number of cybersecurity breaches, so far the Target CEO appears to have been the only one to pay the price. While we hear some calls for ...Full Article
RAND Corp: Manage Security Like a Business
Organizations must figure out a better way to manage cybersecurity like a business, using metrics to determine the relative return on investment (RROI), and constantly evaluating the lifecycle and ...Full Article
How to Avoid Being a Hacker Victim
Following in the wake of the recently publicized attacks on government databases and systems, all CIOs and chief security officers should assume their own organizations could be next and ...Full Article
Average Data Breach Costs $3.8 Million, Ponemon Finds
When an organization's records are breached, it costs an average of $3.8 million to overcome the attack, according to the newly released Ponemon Institute's "Cost of Data Breach Study: ...Full Article
Intel Looks to Secure Containers
The world's largest chipmaker is entering the application container fray this week with the introduction of Intel Clear Containers, an outgrowth of its lightweight Linux operating system development effort ...Full Article
Social Engineering Targets Weakest Security Link: Employees
Without ongoing employee training, an enterprise's expensive security infrastructure investment means little. But very few corporations protect themselves from the growing threat of social engineering. Today only 7 percent ...Full Article
