37 days ago by Mike

On November 18, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters, claiming that scientists are “virtually certain” the world will have more extreme heat spells. By 2050, heat waves could be in the range of 5 degrees hotter, ...

37 days ago by sang_lee

Apparently my ruminations, yesterday, on Stratfor not salting their passwords were not mere speculation. I kind of had doubts because I couldn't imagine a company in this day and age not salting their password hashes (it'd be like using the password as the key to drive encryption -- a bad and discou ...

38 days ago by Ritu Kirti Prakash

An IRM system which can transfer the responsibility of protection from human beings to a content aware automated process will be extremely valuable in case of large organizations.The need to integrate DLP and IRM is criticalLots have been written about famous data breaches and the need for Data Loss ...

38 days ago by sang_lee

About a week ago, I had briefly mentioned the Stratfor breach, and how they had stored credit card numbers and other data as plaintext. If you're storing credit card data, let me tell you, you want to be using encryption software (and you never ever store CVVs -- even when encrypted. That's a PCI-DS ...

38 days ago by Centriq Training

2011 was a very difficult year for IT Security. It seems as though everyone is now taking security very seriously and are now trying to make up for it. Hackers have definitely gained the advantage and those in security are slowing losing ground. The reasons for this are many, some are business, some ...

39 days ago by AxWonders

Hi there! In AX 2012, role based security provides an extensible framework for defining access to the Microsoft Dynamics AX application and data. It changes a little bit from what we know in ax 2009. In AX 2009, administrators had to, literally, create their own user groups and manually assign users ...

39 days ago by The DBEtoday.com Publisher/Editor

Newly Appointed Deputy City Attorney for Denver Scott Martinez - Photo Courtesy City of Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock appointed Scott Martinez as Deputy City Attorney for Denver last week, a critical position responsible for helping manage the daily operations of the City Attorney’s office and adv ...

39 days ago by Fiaaz Walji

Wondering about the impact of Data Loss on our economy ? Curious if your data security efforts are just average and at risk? Ask yourself and your team these 4 questions and find out.

39 days ago by sang_lee

According to a wired.com article, a link between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange was recovered by the US Army. My question here is, why didn't Manning just use full disk data encryption software and then lose the key? Zerofill. One Pass. The Army presented chat logs that link Bradley Manning with ...

41 days ago by Samuel Prasad, Ph.D.

Happy New Year! "Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you don't think you can keep. ...