Is rapid detection the new prevention?

	Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 | 'PGP' encryption has had stay-powering but does it meet today's enterprise demands?
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	Is rapid detection the new prevention? There's a trend underway in the information security field to shift from a prevention mentality—in which organizations try to make the perimeter impenetrable and avoid breaches—to a focus on rapid detection, where they can quickly identify and mitigate threats. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Forrester Workload Automation Paper commissioned by BMC In "Industrializing IT Workload Automation," Forrester Consulting and BMC Software analyze the results of a comprehensive survey that addressed job scheduling on the ground today. Read Now! In this Issue Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 'PGP' encryption has had stay-powering but does it meet today's enterprise demands? INSIDER Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping? Security researcher cancels talk at RSA conference in protest Quantum crypto, standard private key blended for first time Inside knowledge likely in Target breach, experts say A Look at the Fallout From the 2013 Snowden Leaks Hackers claim to expose phone information of 4.6 million Snapchat users Skype's social media accounts targeted by hacker group The security industry found its dream enemy in 2013 -- and new technical challenges too Apple, Cisco, Dell unhappy over alleged NSA back doors in their gear Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model US judge dismisses challenge to border laptop searches 2013 tech news quiz WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 Read More 'PGP' encryption has had stay-powering but does it meet today's enterprise demands? PGP encryption, as industry old-timers know, started out as "Pretty Good Privacy" invented by Phil Zimmermann in 1991, and since then, was sold on to various corporate owners until it ended in the hands of Symantec in 2010. While it is a widely used vintage brands, does PGP public-key encryption still meet today's enterprise demands, given the rise of cloud computing and mobile? Read More INSIDER Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping? When Unisys CISO John Frymier came in to work on Friday, Sept. 6, the phones were ringing, and continued to ring all day. Customers were panicking over the news headlines of the day before. Read More Security researcher cancels talk at RSA conference in protest Security researcher Mikko Hypponen has canceled his talk at a RSA security conference in San Francisco, reacting to a report that the security division of EMC allegedly received US$10 million from the U.S. National Security Agency to use a flawed random number generator in one of its products. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tipping Point The Bot Threat Download this whitepaper and learn how bots work and how, by adopting the right strategy, you can use a defense-in-depth strategy to effectively prevent direct attacks against your critical systems. Learn More Quantum crypto, standard private key blended for first time ID Quantique has found a way to blend quantum-key cryptography with more traditional crypto, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The effect is to gain certain advantages offered by both for private-key-based encryption. Read More Inside knowledge likely in Target breach, experts say How did what is likely to be one of the largest data breaches in history occur? Some speculate it was only possible with insider knowledge Read More A Look at the Fallout From the 2013 Snowden Leaks Stories based on leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first began appearing in June. As 2013 comes to an end, the fallout may be just getting started. Here's a look at 15 ways the tech sector and lawmakers have reacted to the NSA's surveillance practices. Read More Hackers claim to expose phone information of 4.6 million Snapchat users Phone numbers paired with user names of over 4.6 million alleged Snapchat users were posted online by hackers, a few days after a security research group claimed a vulnerability in the social sharing service that could allow attackers to match phone numbers to Snapchat accounts. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Virtualizing Your Infrastructure with a Path to the Cloud IT needs to deliver more services, with greater agility and a high level of availability while keeping operational expenses low. This paper explains 5 reasons to deploy blades as you build out your virtualized infrastructure. Learn More Skype's social media accounts targeted by hacker group Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group styling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks. Read More The security industry found its dream enemy in 2013 -- and new technical challenges too 2013 was the year we learned we must encrypt our data if we don't want the likes of the U.S. National Security Agency or the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters reading it as it crosses the Internet. Read More Apple, Cisco, Dell unhappy over alleged NSA back doors in their gear Germany's Der Spiegel reports that the NSA has compromised a wide range of hardware for years to enable its spying Read More Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model The leaking of classified documents detailing the data collection activities of the U.S. National Security Agency earlier this year reignited some long-standing concerns about the vulnerability of enterprise data stored in the cloud. Read More US judge dismisses challenge to border laptop searches U.S. Customs and Border Protection can search travelers' laptops and other electronic devices without a show of reasonable suspicion, according to a federal judge's dismissal of a 2010 lawsuit on Tuesday. Read More 2013 tech news quiz Snowden, Ballmer, 3D handguns, iPhone 5s – this year had it all Read More
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