Over the past four years, many things have changed in our Cloud Security Blog has been online – largely because of the evolution of the industry. No longer are we encountering “cloud confusion,” as a couple of our earlier blog posts on cloud-based security and threats from the cloud discussed. The “Cloud” and security within…
Read MoreThe Cloud Security Alliance recently released a white paper on cloud computing vulnerability incidents spanning the last five years. They looked at more than 11 thousand news articles regarding cloud computing-related incidents to determine the top reasons behind outages. Did you know 64 percent of the outages can be attributed to one of three causes: Insecure Interfaces…
Read MoreBy Richard Medugno Over the past few months, I have written Fearless Web blogs about the growing problem of stolen and lost smartphones and mobile devices. It was my hope that by shedding some light on these often avoidable incidents that this nonsense would cease. And yet it hasn’t. In fact, it seems to have…
Read MoreBy Vic Hargrave Phishing is an ever-present danger on the Internet threat landscape. In my blog Dealing With Phishy Emails I wrote about what you can do to combat conventional phishing attempts. By “conventional” I mean those emails that use social engineering techniques to get you to click on links in the messages that would…
Read MoreBy Greg Boyle 680 million people access Facebook on their mobile devices. For a lot of these people, it’s the only way they interact with the social network. They check-in, post pictures, like, friend, and unfriend, all while on the go or on the sofa. But many of them – about 28% according to Consumer…
Read MoreBy Christopher Budd This week is the big annual Consumer Electronic Show (CES) for 2013. Every year electronics and technology companies come to CES to highlight their new products and give us a glimpse of our electronic future. One thing that we’re seeing at this year’s CES is a lot of exciting, innovative new technologies…
Read MoreEvery year, Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) talks with staff and researchers to develop projections for the coming year. For 2013, Raimund’s predictions indicate that security issues related to the consumerization of IT will be front and center in terms of new developments, both positive and negative. 2012 was a big year…
Read MoreWhen you host applications in the public cloud, you assume partial responsibility for securing the application. The cloud provider, for example Amazon Web Services (AWS), secures the physical data center (with locked badge entry doors, fences, guards, etc.) in addition to securing the physical network with perimeter firewalls. This is no significant change from how…
Read More“A knight’s fork: an attack by one chess piece (as a knight) on two pieces simultaneously.” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When was the last time you played chess? If you are responsible for Cybersecurity you are unwittingly playing it every day. Tom Kellerman uses this ancient sport to look at the strategies and tactics of modern hackers…
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