Net Neutrality in the US and the Digital Economy Act in the UK are attempts by Governments to start to legislate the Internet.Certainly the Digital Economy Act in the UK was written to prevent the piracy of film, music, photography etc. For what it's worth I don't agree with the measures in the Act, which gives the Government power to checktraffic and potentially block sites involved in the breach of copyright...
With data sources growing exponentially and competitive pressures at an all time high, the need to synthesize and extract meaning is critical to success. Centrifuge provides businesses with the freedom to explore data, uncover new insight and improve decision-making...
Mark Bregman, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Offcer, Symantec Corporation says that SaaS has the potential to be a game changer. In a conversation with Ashwani Mishra, Bregman talks about the company’s strategy in the security and storage areas and how it plans to...
Writing an article about Chinese hackers (all 3 parts were published here - please use the search to find them) I had to explain why it's difficult to fight against them due to a wide range of tools, methods and existing vulnerability of operating systems and applications in addition to the ...
In a 2008 speech to the Texas General Counsel Forum, former United States Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty provided his perspective on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance investigations and the Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions. From his experience as the former seco...
ID Theft is a personal problem because it focuses on the personally identifiable information of individuals, but it’s a company problem too. It’s not only about how you control the flow of information and what information you have within the organization...
Criminal identity theft is when someone commits a crime and uses the assumed name and address of another person. The thief in the act of the crime or upon arrest poses as the identity theft victim. Often the perpetrator will have a fake ID with the identity theft victim’s information but the i...
Security Awareness is a key part in the battle to keep the company secure, a switched off audience could have catastrophic consequences, because they miss the part about disclosure of sharing passwords. Whilst a different approach to presentations will not guarantee that your company remains secure, it might help in keeping employees vigilant in the fight...
We use easily counterfeited identification, Social Security numbers that are written on the sides of buses and we rely on the anonymity of the phone, fax, internet and snail mail as a means of application. In other countries they solve problems. They have priorities and don’t deal with the rhetoric. They put security first, convenience second...
The mechanical wonders that once used kerosene and chain drive squeegee rollers to mass produce wet-paper copies are long gone. It’s a digital copier these days that falls into a gray area between Classification of Documents and Enterprise Cyber Security. As technology in the copy machine industry has evolved many of these systems now contain large hard drives which retain full and complete images of each and every copy made on the system...