Stories by Lucas Mearian

How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

By Lucas Mearian | 16 May, 2013 09:55

A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government.

U.S. doctors don't believe patients need full access to health records

By Lucas Mearian | 07 March, 2013 21:17

A survey of physicians in eight countries found that U.S. doctors in particular do not believe patients should have full access to their electronic health records.

Citrix releases XenMobile MDM for Apple iOS, Android devices

By Lucas Mearian | 20 February, 2013 13:09

Citrix has announced its mobile device management platform, XenMobile, which will offer companies a secure way for employees to access native Citrix apps in the cloud as well as third-party software, such as Windows, SAP or even Salesforce.com.

Carbonite app enables remote activation of Android cell phone cameras

By Lucas Mearian | 11 December, 2012 20:28

Cloud storage provider Carbonite released a mobile app for Android with a new Capture feature that lets a user remotely activate the phones camera to take a picture of the person using the device or its location.

EMC to buy web intelligence provider Silver Tail Systems

By Lucas Mearian | 30 October, 2012 19:41

EMC has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis.

New security threat at work: Bring-your-own-network

By Lucas Mearian | 11 October, 2012 19:52

Employees who access corporate networks and download data onto their mobile devices may not be as much of a security risk as those who bring consumer hotspots into the corporate environment.

Western Digital announces its smallest external drive with USB 3.0

By Lucas Mearian | 06 September, 2012 15:00

Western Digital announced its smallest form factor external hard drive for Macs and PCs that includes a USB 3.0 port, backup software and encryption.

Wearable tech market on the upswing

By Lucas Mearian | 27 August, 2012 10:08

The number of wearable technology products is expected to grow from 14 million devices sold this year to as many as 171 million in 2016

'Wall of Shame' exposes 21M medical record breaches

By Lucas Mearian | 07 August, 2012 10:05

Over the past three years, about 21 million patients have had their medical records exposed in data security breaches that were big enough to require they be reported to the federal government.

BYOD exposes the perils of Cloud storage

By Lucas Mearian | 18 June, 2012 10:06

As more and more companies adopt BYOD policies, IT managers are taking steps to prevent employees from using cloud-based consumer storage services with their personal devices.

Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work

By Lucas Mearian | 08 June, 2012 10:27

As the bring-your-own-device trend accelerates, companies are struggling to deal with employees who now use cloud storage services while at work.

Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 00:26

Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

BofA says it wasn't hacked; website problems persist

By Lucas Mearian | 06 October, 2011 05:29

After days of spotty online access, Bank of America (BofA) today said its Web and mobile services have not been hit by hacking or denial-of-service attacks. But the nation's largest bank would not disclose what's causing its website problems.

9/11: Top lessons learned for disaster recovery

By Lucas Mearian | 09 September, 2011 23:57

In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, physical security, human contingency planning and an evolution in technological capabilities have improved the odds that business can carry on during -- and after -- a disaster.

Health Insurer Encrypts All Stored Data

By Lucas Mearian | 22 August, 2011 20:07

Responding to the theft of 57 hard drives in 2009 , BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has completed a $6 million project to encrypt all of its at-rest data.

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Security Awareness Tip

Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).


  1. Have an incident response plan.

  2. Pre-define your incident response team 

  3. Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.

  4. Pre-distribute call cards.

  5. Forensic and incident response data capture.

  6. Get your users on-side.

  7. Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement. 

  8. Practice makes perfect.

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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping

I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.