• The state of cloud encryption: From fiction to actionable reality

  By Debabrata Dash, Ph.D., chief scientist and architect, CipherCloud | 09 April, 2013 18:21 | 1 Comment

  The risks of data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance remain significant barriers to cloud adoption for many enterprises. While encryption seems like an obvious solution, historically the technology produced usability issues for cloud applications. To complicate matters, putting encryption into the hands of cloud service providers still left the enterprise open to risks such as insider fraud, hacking and disclosure demands from law enforcement.

• Combating security breaches with managed file transfer technology

  By Rohit Khanna, executive vice president of global strategy and corporate development, SEEBURGER AG | 12 February, 2013 21:28

  Last October a large company revealed that an employee mistakenly sent an email to an unauthorized recipient containing the names and Social Security numbers of former employees. Six months earlier, a larage Texas university accidentally exposed personal information about as many as 4,000 alumni in an electronic file accidentally attached to an email sent to one person who had requested a transcript. That's just the tip of the iceberg in insider-triggered security breaches.

• IT security vendor Verdasys brings DLP to the cloud

  By Brandon Butler | 29 January, 2013 15:58

  Security vendor Verdasys says it's ready to bring data loss prevention (DLP) to the cloud.

• The 3 biggest threats to your cloud data

  By Rob May, CEO, Backupify | 10 December, 2012 17:03

  Any horror movie fan can tell you the scariest threats are the ones you don't see coming, and the same is true when it comes to threats to cloud data. IT has decades of experience protecting on-premise resources. Virtually no one has even one decade of experience running major SaaS applications, so we should be prepared for some surprises.

• Why risk management can succeed in IT

  By Steve Schlarman, eGRC solutions architect, RSA | 22 October, 2012 19:48

  Earlier this week Richard Stiennon published an article that questions the value of risk management in IT, and I would argue that, although risk management presents challenges to IT, best practice-driven approaches leveraging aspects of risk management are essential to good security.

• When in China, don't leave your laptop alone

  By Bob Violino | 04 December, 2012 11:11

  If you travel to China or Russia, assume government or industry spooks will steal your data and install spyware. Here's how to thwart them

• Social Media Safety: Acceptable-Use Policies Critical

  By Kristin Burnham | 09 April, 2010 04:11

  It's a Catch-22 for many companies and IT departments: Allow access to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and the company is opened up to malicious content, phishing schemes and account hijackings. Block all social media sites, and the business risks losing young talent to competitors or will challenge employees to find workarounds. Which can be equally dangerous.

• Solving the DLP Puzzle: Survival Tips from the Trenches

  By Bill Brenner | 16 July, 2009 23:55

  It's no easy task implementing a data loss prevention (DLP) program when there's so much disagreement in the security community over what DLP entails. But those who've been through it have good news: It can be done

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