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Blue Coat second company to buy Crossbeam Systems in recent weeks
Blue Coat Systems Monday announced an agreement to acquire Crossbeam Systems for an undisclosed amount by year-end. This would mark the second time Crossbeam has been acquired in 2012, with private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquiring it just last month.
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Cloud security vendor Crossbeam bought by private equity firm
Crossbeam has been bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, opening up the door for the security company to expand its product line both in-house and via acquisitions.
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Sportsbet gambles DDoS attack, wins
Australians love to place bets online but little do some punters know of the dangers lurking in cyberspace. Melbourne-based internet betting and entertainment website Sportsbet.com.au found out about these dangers the hard way when in 2009 the company was the target of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
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Bank trojan targets users of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox
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Australian Information Security Association issues blunt warning as National Cyber Security Awareness Week begins
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Review: Mobile Device Management
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The week in security: Aussie banks targeted as mobiles drive privacy fears
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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Clamp the cable clutter with 4Cabling
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AVG Technologies Launches its Latest Range of Performance Applications for Android™
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Lan 1 meets demand for cloud security with Authentication-as-a-Service
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
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Dell Sets Sights on Cisco, Announces Game-Changing NSA Series That Introduces Powerful Next-Gen Firewall Advances for Mid-sized Businesses and Distributed Enterprises
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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!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
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.
