Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
“To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.” – Sun Tzu by Blake McConnell of Symantec There may not be physical battle lines drawn, but the current conflict between cybercriminals and businesses and governments is just as real and damaging as a war…
by Niall Browne of LiveOps As our personal and professional lives become more intertwined, the amount of digital data stored and accessed by companies, their employees and staff is staggering. From banking records to medical information, personal identifiers and business transaction histories, a treasure trove of sensitive information is a tempting target to cybercrooks. Moreover,…
Who was responsible for Stuxnet? This was a question I asked a number of security pros at the 2011 RSA security conference last month in San Francisco. The leading contenders were the obvious ones: the U.S. and Israel. However, a very good case was made (off the record, unfortunately) for a surprising dark horse: China….
Many senior IT staff believe that if they could only protect users from themselves then everyone would be a lot safer and IT processes would be more efficient. Imagine never having to allocate resources to fix a workstation that a user screwed up by downloading free Internet games that were really key loggers. It’s hard…
Insider misuse is not necessarily malicious behavior. Individuals misusing the organization’s computing resources are for the most part not doing so with the intent to harm the organization. They may just be attempting to “get the job done.” For example, an employee may use his personal laptop to bring work home over the weekend in…
According to security vendor PandaLabs, its analysis on 430 million email messages from 2008 revealed only 8.4% of messages that reached companies were legitimate. Some 89.88% of messages were spam, while 1.11% were infected with some type of malware. Only January 2008 witnessed levels of spam below 80%. The amount of spam fluctuated throughout the…
PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced that less than six percent of emails that reached companies in the third quarter of 2008 were legitimate correspondence. Moreover, 1.43% of emails contained malware. The data, extracted from a sample of more than 123 million emails, found the most frequently detected strains of malware…