At the Security Development Conference in San Francisco, Howard Schmidt, executive director, SAFECode, announced that the non-for-profit organization is tackling software development and engineering security with a set of free online training courses, available via on-demand webcasts and covering a range of issues, from preventing SQL injection to avoiding cross-site request forgery.
14 May 2013
As many as 58.2 million American adults had at least one malware infection that affected their home PCs’ features or performance in the past year – a fact that collectively cost nearly $4 billion for repairs.
13 May 2013
Deputy editor of Infosecurity magazine, Drew Amorosi, talks to (ISC)²'s new chief operating officer at Infosecurity Europe 2013.
13 May 2013
Security shouldn’t get in the way of doing business and closing sales, but many organizations are wrestling with data protection strategies that block employees' ability to get the information they need to do their jobs. Almost half of all employees in a recent survey admitted to bypassing security regulations in order to get their job done. That's breeding apathy, too: 40% admitted that if they were breached no one would notice.
10 May 2013
Despite high-profile warnings by security researchers, a majority of organizations are failing to enact recommended best practice security policies around one of the primary targets of advanced attacks – privileged accounts.
09 May 2013
Eleanor Dallaway, editor of Infosecurity magazine, sits down with Qualys’ Wolfgang Kandek at the recent Infosecurity Europe conference in London to discuss the information security threat landscape.
09 May 2013
Royal Holloway (University of London) and Oxford University have each received funding of almost £4 million to provide new centers for doctoral training (CDT) to address the UK’s national need for cyber security expertise.
09 May 2013
The move to cloud applications, ever-present mobility, Big Data and an escalating set of complex cyber-attack vectors and malware are all conspiring to overwhelm security professionals, leaving the door for many businesses wide open to data breaches.
08 May 2013
Infosecurity magazine’s Eleanor Dallaway sits down with representatives of ISACA, (ISC)², and the ISSA at the recent Infosecurity Europe conference in London.
08 May 2013
Infosecurity magazine's Drew Amorosi interviews Kevin Jones of City University London at the recent Infosecurity Europe conference.
08 May 2013