Schneier: Internet has delivered a 'golden age of surveillance'
"Information is power," has been true for so long that it has become a cliché.
"Information is power," has been true for so long that it has become a cliché.
Size matters when it comes to security, according to Davi Ottenhelmer. Ottenhelmer, senior director of trust at EMC, titled his presentation at SOURCE Boston, "Delivering Security at Big Data Scale," and began with the premise that, "as things get larger, a lot of our assumptions break."
What's in a name? For one security expert, not enough when the name is "malware."
Online banking is not 100 per cent secure -- nothing is. That is not expected to change in 2014. But a number of security experts, along with an industry official, say it is reasonably safe, if users take reasonable precautions.
"Privacy is dead -- get over it," has been a mantra of private investigators for years.
Big Data does not necessarily mean Good Data. And that, as an increasing number of experts are saying more insistently, means Big Data does not automatically yield good analytics.
Everybody wants a measure of privacy. As some experts on the topic have pointed out, even those who declare they have "nothing to hide" generally have curtains on the windows of their homes and don't invite everybody over to have a look at their credit card statements.
With 70 per cent of employees across corporate networks using a personal smartphone or tablet, growing attack surface too big to ignore
New IFA tracking in iPhone 5 and other devices running iOS 6 doesn't identify you personally, but privacy advocates say it still has risk
Today's tech landscape makes for 'complex melting pot' of security challenges with once trusty, old email
McAfee finds PC malware back after hiatus, but mobile malware shows biggest percentage gain -- and Android is the target
Apple devices - ever more popular in the workplace - are about to become more popular with cyber criminals.
Big business - at least a significant percentage of it - has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and invested enough in security to make it difficult, expensive and risky for cyber criminals to attack them.
It is not news that Facebook, the behemoth of social networking, is less than aggressive about protecting the personal privacy of its 900 million users. But even relatively savvy users may not be aware of how much of their information is collected, how it is used and how little control they may have over it.
The mobile device, now the dominant technological tool in American enterprise, will become more dominant in 2012 and beyond. Industry analysts say mobile device shipments will top 1 billion in 2015, leaving PC shipments in the dust.
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