By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com In 2003, an estimated 1.5 million laptops were stolen worldwide. Today, that number has climbed to 2.6 million. That’s a 70% increase in just a few years. That’s one stolen laptop every 12 seconds. Laptop computers have been the source of ...
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP But most of those issues are related to encryption, materials and generally anything that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Here is an example of the possibility to create a fake Biometric ID with very little technical knowledge. In order to understand this possibility, we need to ...
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com I’ve joined forces with the Identity Theft Resource Center to expand the pool of knowledge about identity theft issues. As nationally recognized experts in this crime, we have come up with ten predictions for what the nation can expect in ...
By Thomas R. Fox, Attorney at Tom Fox Law Quick, as the Compliance Professional within your organization, which department or group of your company spends the most money annually? Did Supply Chain immediately come to mind? Probably not. Now just as quickly, how much of your compliance efforts are focused on the Supply ...
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Imagine trying to log into your online accounts one after the other and being locked out. At first you think the site you are visiting screwed up but then it keeps happening over and over again no matter where you ...
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon In my podcast interview, NetWitness CSO Edward Schwartz stated that “we don't have the kind of ROI stories in security that other industries have.” As a veteran of several IT events, I've been bombarded with various Return on Investment (ROI) projections and a few Value-centric arguments ...
By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team CIOs are spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the IT infrastructure and securing enterprise digital assets. Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days. According to a recent study ...
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates A Few Months ago I saw an article in ComputerWeekly that asked – Is data loss prevention possible? "Data is out of control in the corporate world…I think… the only way that we can have influence on the likelihood of (data loss) occurring ...
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP Vulnerability and Compliance Management as Software as a Service (SaaS) are springing up like mushrooms. The SaaS model enabled companies which focused on vulnerability management to extend their reach, and offer the services to more and more potential clients. Most companies in this market name their SaaS ...
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst The fourth guide in our ‘Forgotten Security’ series, Forgotten Security: Keeping up to date, is targeted at IT teams, encouraging them to take another look at their procedures, ensuring that they cover both software and equipment. A fully updated system is protected against the latest ...