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We Need A National Cybersecurity Strategy That Everyone Can Implement

CTOvision

So here’s three things the nation can do to make it less vulnerable to cyber attacks: 1/ Implement 2-Factor Authentication. Basic: Implementing two-factor authentication is the simplest mitigation against credential theft. Basic: Application data stores, email servers and collaboration applications should all have their data encrypted.

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Data-Aware Security: How to Take a 360 View of Cloud Security

CIO Business Intelligence

In the case of cloud infrastructure, users are responsible for application security, identity and access management, client and endpoint protection, data classification and user behavior. The same holds true in a SaaS environment, although software and service providers assume a somewhat greater role in application and access controls.

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How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Protecting data and monitoring user behavior used to be relatively simple when everyone was behind the corporate firewall. For example, data within software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications can’t be protected by the corporate virtual private network if users are outside the firewall, so access needs to be governed at the user account level.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC. DHS Awards MITRE 6 Million Renewal For Federal R&D Center.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). It’s much easier to use biometrics or a SmartCard to identify yourself to a system or application.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern.

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A COE for Zero Trust

SecureWorld News

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Dynamic authentication and authorization are strictly enforced before granting access to any resource.