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View from inside Verizon's security SWAT team
Bryan Sartin is director of Verizon's RISK Team, the communications provider's computer forensics practice, which is also the group that helps create the annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Sartin to learn more about the RISK Team, get his take on the state of enterprise security, and discuss new findings from the recently published DBIR report.
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Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary
Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More

Online gaming company recounts fighting for survival vs. DDoS attacks
Fighting denial-of-service attacks has become a matter of survival for some businesses that find their websites getting smashed and network flooded by attackers. Online gaming company SG Interactive says it's under constant attack and the only way to keep going is to set up an anti-DDoS defense. Read More

Intel's McAfee brings biometric authentication to cloud storage
Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition. Read More

Health care breach victims plummet
Tougher rules and big settlements are said to be behind the fall in affected clients, but one group calls it the 'calm before the storm' Read More

Labor Department hackers more sophisticated than most
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Federal requirement for open access: Seeing what you paid for
In early May President Obama signed an executive order that makes "Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information". Read More

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The FBI has reportedly briefed US bank executives on a wave of cyberattacks that have lashed the industry since last summer as part of a new policy designed to foster co-operation between the state and private sectors. Read More

Google's five-year plan for authentication: It's complicated
Google has released a draft of its next five-year plan for login authentication that tries to stay at least on par with criminal hackers, but recognizes that strong security requires industry collaboration. Read More

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