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It’s called ATM cash-out fraud, and it’s a new data security threat where physical attacks and cyberattacks converge. Earlier this year, federal regulators warned financial…

There’s a dramatic shortage of qualified information security professionals in the industry today. Globally, we’re a million people short, according to Cisco’s 2014 Annual Security…

This summer, Facebook finalized its $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR, a virtual reality headset maker. The purchase promises to usher in a new era…

Just because your community bank isn’t one of the giants of the financial industry doesn’t mean it’s off the target list of today’s proliferating cybercriminals.…

Multifactor authentication, the process of using more than one method or system to confirm the identities of consumers online, has been around for years. But…

This year has been the best of times and the worst of times for open source code and security. On the one hand, the latest…

Women make up  just 11 percent of information security professionals.  Just increasing that number to 22 percent would solve the industry’s staffing shortage problem. Unfortunately,…

  While there are plenty of standardized methods for penetration testing that we’re all familiar with, the bad guys aren’t sticking to traditional methods for…

It’s hard to imagine a company these days that isn’t using open source software somewhere, whether it’s Linux running a company’s print and web servers,…

Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find weaknesses that need to be addressed. The Common…

Cover story These days, there’s no shortage of new business technologies and new threat vectors to the enterprise. But what many companies forget is that…

Even as women have made dramatic advances in medicine, law, and other fields, the proportion of women pursuing undergraduate degrees in the computer sciences has…

Whether you receive a phishing email inviting you to click on a specific link, whether you see the link on your trusted social media sites,…

Phishers are upping their game, so end users need to respond accordingly Protecting yourself against phishing attacks used to be relatively easy. Don’t download unexpected…

When Unisys CISO John Frymier came in to work on Friday, Sept. 6, the phones were ringing, and continued to ring all day. Customers were…

Rogue employees, hackers, government employees all threats to keeping information stored on the cloud private Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA spying may have brought the…

Whether you’re protecting corporate data from internal leakers, hackers looking to steal money from you and your customers, foreign spies, your own government, or employees…

What treasury and finance executives need to know about encryption Treasury and finance executives need to know enough about encryption and security to  ensure that…

Cloudy Does the cloud help or  hinder credit card payment  security and compliance? Depending on whom you ask, processing  credit card payments in the cloud…

Cyberinsurance still a puzzle for many companies

Risk transfer opportunities have proliferated, as have the threats The bad news keeps coming. Every month, some company somewhere is hacked and loses confidential data.…

Of all the virtual currencies out there, BitCoin is the most interesting from a technical perspective – and the least interesting from the business point…

Online communities and collaborative workspaces create operational and security vulnerabilities — but also opportunities to  deploy enterprise-grade, risk-based solutions. Carroll University’s library commons was a…

In most companies, too many employees have too many privileges. After all, they are quick to speak up when they need access to data or…

As threats proliferate, here are five areas where companies need to strengthen and update their policies and practices. It’s particularly galling when a company specializing…

Amazon’s infamous cloud outage in April brought down a number of popular Web sites, including foursquare and Reddit – but many of Amazon’s enterprise cloud…

Companies with backup systems in place kept their businesses running when a major outage at Amazon shut down websites.

Many companies, both small and large, are wary of doing business with cloud providers because of concerns about outages, data loss, and privacy issues. These…

Spurred by enthusiastic senior executives and rank-and-file employees, companies are starting to roll out iPads in the enterprise, especially for board meetings and sales staff.

As cloud vendors mature, Web-based delivery of applications, storage and infrastructure is getting more secure and trustworthy.