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By Michael Lin, Symantec Cloud computing appears here to stay, bringing with it new challenges and security risks on one hand, while on the other hand boasting efficiencies, cost savings and competitive advantage. With the new security risks of cloud and the mounting skill and cunning of today&rsqu ...

The current phone hacking scandal has once again propelled data privacy and security issues to the top of the public agenda. While there are many calls for tighter regulation of the press in a bid to prevent any future use of such tactics, I fear such a response may be largely ineffective. ...

I have to admit, I find this sort of thing just irritating: The Register last week reported that eight million patient records were lost on a laptop. Unencrypted records.  No, really. As a spokesperson for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) said: "We have set clear standards for NHS ...

With the last several posts being about BitLocker  (and especially Recovery Keys) hopefully you now have some idea of the things you will want to think about when planning for a BitLocker deployment.  Beyond that, however, the obvious question that now needs to be addressed is: Where ...

By Stuart Lisk, Senior Product Manager, Hubspan Are you losing sleep over whether to implement tokenization or full encryption as your cloud security methodology? Do you find yourself lying awake wondering if you locked all the doors to your sensitive data? Your “sleepless with security&rdquo ...

Last time  I covered an introduction to BitLocker, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and what TPM does to assist in keeping your system secure. This time I'm writing about the most important aspect of BitLocker management – Recovery Keys (and Recovery Passwords too).  While one ...

It's hard to avoid the flurry of bad press following the recent loss of a laptop by a BP employee. Unfortunately for all concerned, the lost laptop contained the names and personal details of some 13,000 claimants from the Deepwater Horizon spill.  The problem, of course, is not that the lapto ...

I had a great talk with Fred Donovan this week regarding cloud security. It's pretty clear that organizations of all kinds are very concerned about the risks (and the cost of those risks) when moving to adopt cloud services.  It's also fair to say that the cloud providers are working diligentl ...

It's been a bad week for USB device security. A couple of potentially ugly breaches have highlighted, once more, the trouble organizations are having with managing removable media security.  Over in the UK, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site suffered what turned out to be a very embarras ...

Encryption is the sort of topic that rarely makes it into the mainstream media, but the recent hoopla over BlackBerry security, namely its encryption procedures, has drawn the ire of governments throughout Asia. India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia – all have taken issue with BlackBerry services and ...