Monday, August 12 2013: Many enterprises possess an unrealistic confidence surrounding the security of their networks, with more than 65 percent of IT/security professionals contacted for a survey by network visibility and security intelligence specialist Landcope not thinking or being unsure that they had experienced any security incidents within the last 12 to18 months. Areas of blind spots within the typical enterprise are many, including applications, network traffic, network devices, user activity, virtualized appliances and data centers, to name a few. According to Lancope's director of security research, Tom Cross, organizations are underprepared for the eventuality of an incident. "Any system you connect to the Internet is going to be targeted by attackers very quickly thereafter," he said in a statement. "I would assert that if you're unsure whether or not your organization has... + continue reading
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Tuesday, January 29 2013: This was a rough year for Java in the browser. Major new vulnerabilities repeatedly battered Java browser plugins, encouraging many organizations to get rid of Java in the browser if possible.
In April, more than 600,000 Mac users found themselves recruited into the global Flashback, or Flashplayer botnet, courtesy of a Java vulnerability left unpatched on OS X for far too long. After Apple issued a removal tool and a Java patch, Oracle assumed direct responsibility for publishing Java for OS X in the future, and promised to deliver Java patches for OS X and Windows and to release OS X Java patches at the same time as those for Windows.
Oracle’s Java developers were soon called upon to deliver prompt patches. Within days of the discovery of a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Java 7 on all platforms and operating systems, the flaw was already being exploited in targeted... + continue reading
Tuesday, January 29 2013: A survey indicates unsafe password management continues to be a challenge, as is the usage of applications not sanctioned by the company.
Although a large majority of businesses are planning to increase the number of cloud applications used in their organizations, 71 percent admit they are using cloud apps that have not been sanctioned by their IT departments, according to a survey of 200 IT and business professionals on the adoption, use and security of cloud applications conducted by identity management provider OneLogin and security consultancy FlyingPenguin.
With access to these applications taking place from a variety of locations including smartphones (80 percent), tablets (71 percent) and non-company computers (80 percent) and with a large percentage of organizations (73 percent) needing to grant temporary access to cloud apps, respondents cited concerns around identity... + continue reading
Tuesday, January 29 2013: As supercomputers store massive amounts of data in the cloud, personalized medicine will continue to develop.
With all of the unstructured data in medical journals, doctors' notes, radiology images and faxes, IT vendors have been developing technologies to help the health care industry make sense of all the loose data.
Vendors will continue to develop cloud databases to store and process large volumes of "big data" and allow doctors to use this information to personalize medical treatment, according to experts.
"We really see big data as the new frontier across all industries, specifically health care," Richard Cramer, chief health care strategist at data integration vendor Informatica, told eWEEK. "The next decade is going to be the data decade in health care."
Past and current data could bring clinical and financial risk to light and... + continue reading
