Mobile device security is top of mind at RSA. – The 20th annual RSA Conference is lumbering into San Francisco next
week. Its huge, face-to-face, dominated by educational tracks, led by
old guys, and run under the auspices of a vendor. How did the RSA
Conference get to be 20 in such good shape?
The RSA Conference is in some ways the oppos…
The risk-based and on-demand authentication system is designed to provide secure access to VPNs and online portals. – EMCs security division, RSA, announced its Authentication Manager
Express. The newest strong authentication platform is a risk-based and
on-demand authentication system designed for small to medium-size
businesses to provide up to 2,500 users with secure access
to data and business applications …
Hundreds of banking Websites are still vulnerable to a patched vulnerability affecting certain versions of the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. – RSA, EMCs security division, is advising customers to apply a
two-year-old patch for its Adaptive Authentication product after a
researcher discovered hundreds of banking Websites are still open to
attack.
RSA Adaptive Authentication is a risk-based fraud prevention and authentication platform t…
RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud infrastructures–multitenant or otherwise. – On Day One of VMworld 2010,
EMC’s RSA security arm on Aug. 30 introduced a new integrated security
and compliance package designed expressly for multitenant cloud
computing.
RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing
security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud
…
Susan Macdonald has been appointed MD, RSA Singapore Aug 1
Work experience: General management practice leader, RSA, UK; has been part of the RSA team for over five years
Security researchers at RSA spotlight the cyber-infrastructure that props up malware by providing so-called bulletproof hosting to attackers. Troyak, as it turns out, is just one of five upstream providers surrounding a core of eight bulletproof networks tied to malware such as Zeus.
– Researchers in EMC’s RSA
security division have uncovered an extensive infrastructure propping up the
attackers behind the Zeus Trojan.
The findings reflect part of the reason the disruption
of Troyak-AS March 9 only caused Zeus traffic to slow, as opposed to stopping
it in its tracks. Troyak i…
The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures.
– The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1,
sought to catch the cloud computing wave, while the expo show floor was packed
to the gills with vendors wheeling and dealing primarily in products that
relate to the well-known problems of today.
Art Coviello, executive vice
…
CIOs face more complexity than ever as an array of new technologies, from social media to cloud computing, open up new opportunities – and vulnerabilities. In ensuring that their businesses aren’t exposed to new threats while charging into these new frontiers, IT security teams are essentially helping to enable emerging business models. Whether that means training employees on social media or pressuring cloud vendors to disclose their security practices, IT security will continue to evolve from its historic focus on protecting IT systems to playing a more entrepreneurial role in business.
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Cloud security was a key buzz phrase at this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco this past week. But just what security concerns were top of mind – and how organizations should grade those risks – can be difficult to answer.
– Most would agree cloud computing has become one of the catch phrases of this years RSA’s conference in San Francisco.
The overall theme: Security may make or break cloud computing efforts as businesses look to balance the needs of regulations, access management and data protection with the busi…
SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart revealed details of his research into a Russian botnet that has taken the unusual step of targeting Russian banks – a change from the typical focus on snaring victims in the West. The botnet also has a plug-in architecture that allows attackers to extend its abilities without writing new source code.
– Like the sequel to a
successful movie, the botnet behind the distributed denial of service attacks
that hit the country
of
Georgia during its conflict with Russia in 2008 has been updated.
This time though, the idea
isnt hacktivism its stealing financial data and, unlike in the case of oth…
In a presentation at RSA, Sophos security expert Graham Cluley outlined some of the main threats targeting Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites and what strategies need to be adopted to fight them.
– From Koobface to spam to fake Facebook Fan pages, attacks targeting
social networks are evolving to bring a new level of insecurity to an
enterprise.
In his presentation Wednesday at the
RSA Conference in
San Francisco, Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley detailed some of the …
A panel of experts at the RSA security conference that included former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Bush administration cyber-security advisor Richard Clarke laid out the challenges the government faces as it takes on privacy and security issues in today’s cyber-world.
– A panel of cyber-security experts at the
RSA
Conference agreed on one thing – the nations cyber-security strategy needs beefing up. Finding a way to do that without sacrificing privacy however is more elusive.
“You dont want necessarily to have the government literally sitting there and operat…
At yesterday’s RSA Conference, Malcolm Harkins, CISO and GM, Intel Enterprise Capabilities Controls and Compliance, received the Excellence in the Field of Security Practices Award. In accepting the award, Harkins explained to other security professionals that the greatest vulnerability is “our underestimation or overestimation of risk.”
RSA Conference 2010 is kicking off March 1 in San Francisco, bringing with it a focus on the latest threats as well as security strategies spanning application development, social networks and the cloud.
– From data protection to
cloud computing to application development, this years
RSA Conference is
keeping an eye toward practical strategies for dealing with todays
cyber-threats.
The conference, which will
run from March 1 to March 5 at the Moscone
Center in San Francisco, has expanded t…
Because of the advent of faster, more complete security applications and databases, enterprises now have multiple ways to check identities, permissions and credentials in real time. However, security threats also continue to increase in number and sophistication.
– RSA’s Security Decoded conference opens in San Francisco’s Moscone Center March 1, and RSA President Art Coviello will be giving his keynote address bright and early on the morning of March 2.
Coviello is always good for a prognostication or two or more. This year
he’ll be talking about key tren…
The iPhone has all sorts of uses for the business professional. You can keep in contact with corporate email accounts and you can access corporate networks if you need. RSA has a new iPhone app that adds another important feature to the iPhone mix.
RSA has announced that it has a new iPhone app called RSA [...]
