Enterprise

Google acquired reMail recently. There are two major activities which followed the acquisition: removal of the application from the App Store and open sourcing it.

Are your firewalls overloaded? Symptoms of overloaded firewalls include high CPU, low throughput and slow applications. Before upgrading your hardware, it is worth checking whether or not your firewall configuration can be optimized. Here, Reuven Harrison CTO of Tufin Technologies gives firewall administrators some best practices for optimizing firewalls for maximum performance and throughput.

In the modern business world, information is king.  It is the jewel in the crown of every enterprise, defining what an organization does, providing the means to undertake the business and is often the key output or commodity of the company. So the question begs; why are some companies fundamentally lax with their information?  More importantly, why are they so fundamentally lax about protecting my personal information?  And what can be done to correct this apparent lack of understanding and awareness?

There’s no doubt that virtualisation has gained a firm foothold in many IT organisations with its ability to deliver more computing power for less money.  The cost and technical benefits of virtualisation have created an internal frenzy to move more systems to a virtual environment.

Need a pair of shoes? Or an airline ticket? Or a book? Or 100 servers to get you through the holiday online sales rush? No problem. Go online and your needs are (nearly) instantaneously fulfilled. Instant gratification may be the single greatest driver in the revolution that is fuelled by virtualization and delivering software and services from the Cloud. Today more and more vendors like ourselves are launching new services and feeding this desire. The impact is only beginning to be understood.

Token authentication technology has evolved steadily since the 1970’s. Beginning with Challenge Tokens, moving to time sync tokens, the driving factor has always been increased convenience for the end user.

With today’s announcement that it is killing its long-standing partnership arrangement with HP, Cisco has clearly highlighted that a product play is still a critical component of its longer-term strategy.

Whenever we enter a new decade, many of us like to take stock and think about the things that have changed over the last ten years and what may happen during the next twelve months. But as Niels Bohr once said, prediction is difficult, especially about the future. Nevertheless, almost all network security companies try to assess risk and the potential impact of criminal behaviour, fraud and Internet malware for their clients.

Businesses are in a precariously risky situation these days. Cyber criminals have evolved their skills and techniques to such an extent that they can breach the four walls of any company at will.

The greatest security challenge today is discovering new vulnerabilities. Software release cycles are getting faster and new technologies are increasingly complex, a perfect breeding ground for bugs. At the same time, a growing share of vulnerabilities is never disclosed publicly. Instead, they are sold and distributed within underground hacker communities. Software development companies can no longer rely on user communities to find bugs, they need to find new ways to protect their products and services. Many companies have moved away from reactive post-deployment security add-ons and started to endorse in-built security by integrating software security practices into their Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).