After implementing its restructuring plan and reducing its workforce by 8.0%,CA Inc. (CA) has now turned its focus on enhancing its cloud computing portfolio. The company recently came up with a new technology, christened as CA Agile Vision Team Edition. This technology will run on the Force.com platform provided by the cloud computing major Salesforce.com (CRM).
Children say and do things that make them vulnerable to dangers in the outside world. A parent can parent all day long and do everything possible to protect their kids from themselves, but a child’s persistence to have their way can wear a parent down. It’s a constant fight that make...
In working with various clients on the topic of security, a common theme has emerged. Management and employees still labor under the perception that fraud is still the purview of unorganized individuals with an axe to grind against a specific company...
Did you hear the news? CSRF isn’t a big deal. I just got the memo too! There were a few posts pointing me to an article on the fact that CSRF isn’t that big of a deal. Fear not, I am here to lay the smack down on this foolishness. To be fair, I have no idea who this guy is, and maybe he...
The Erlanger Police Department counts in its ranks roughly 40 sworn officers and serves a population of approximately 17,000 residents in northwestern Kenton County, Kentucky. Located astride a major freeway interchange (I-75 and I-275), Erlanger is a bedroom community just ten short miles (and a handful of bridges) south of the Ohio River and downtown Cincinnati. While the waters of the Ohio tend to keep most gang-on-gang violence from encroaching on what the locals call “The Friendship City,” there is crime there, and officers at Erlanger PD take seriously their mission to fight that crime. Since mid-2008 Erlanger PD has been using information sharing software with powerful search technology to increase the department’s effectiveness.
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the implementation of a secure data transfer application for its BlackBerry Smartphone using the same encryption protocol developed by Media Sourcery, which is the basis for Infosec Island's own IslandPKI service...
Culture is most commonly defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a group of people. So an organization’s culture of behaviors and beliefs are what shape the decisions people make and results an organization achieves...
Organizations are more often asking to include a social engineering evaluation, but it still surprises me just how many of them have not previously had a formal SE evaluation process in place until we do our first audit with them. I get “oh, our accounting firm calls into our user base from ti...
Chris Powers, Worldwide Director, Enterprise Storage, HP StorageWorks Division spoke to Rahul Neel Mani about HP’s latest push – ‘Storage and Server Convergence’ – as well as other technologies that will excite enterprise users in 2010-11...
We must mitigate the ever-increasing abilities of today's cyber criminals to penetrate the current information security barriers, fire walls, etc. of industry and government organizations in order to gain access to the most sensitive and confidential private information stored in its databases...