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Cyberwar Arms Race May Create New Channel Opportunities
President Obama’s plan to form a new cybersecurity czar post and a coordinate campaign to secure the nation’s critical digital infrastructure is spurring the Pentagon and other government agencies to think — as they say in football — on both sides of the ball. In other words, both offensive and defense. Almost immediately after the…
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IT Outsourcing Firm CSC Launches Cloud Computing with Security Focus
IT consulting services company CSC (NYSE: CSC) is getting into the cloud computing game with a three-part offering for companies looking to send some of their computing into the cloud. Partnering with Cisco and its Unified Computing effort, EMC, and VMware, CSC will offer what it is calling “Cloud Orchestration” and “Trusted Cloud” services, designed…
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Hacking Threat Faces Mobile Phone Users, Experts Say
(Reuters) – Accessing your bank account using your mobile phone might seem safe, but security experts say would-be hackers can access confidential information via a simple text message seemingly from your service provider. People in the industry aware of the risk see it as extremely small, as only a few people use handsets to access…
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Fed Video on Cybersecurity States the Obvious
President Obama didn’t announce the next cybersecurity czar, as speculated he would last Friday. However, the White House did unveil the ineptly named "Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure." Accompanying the report was this video highlighting the need for better, coordinated government and private sector efforts to protect the…
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Data Discovery Features Make DLP Smarter
Data loss prevention (DLP) or, as it was originally called “data leak prevention,” has been more of a promise than a reality. Many of the products on the shelf today are designed as the data equivalents of antivirus pattern matching to detect the emailing or streaming of common data sets, such as Social Security and…
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President Obama to Appoint Cybersecurity Czar
President Barrack Obama is expected to march out on the Rose Garden lawn Friday morning and proclaim the next cybersecurity czar—the man or woman who will coordinate and lead the defense of the U.S. critical digital infrastructure. Some people will argue that the need for this post has never been greater. Many IT security vendors…