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Hospital system pursues identity-management Holy Grail
It's an ideal in identity management: a centralized role-based access control system that supports single-sign-on (SSO) user access to authorized...
Thwarted by security at enterprises, cyber criminals target SMBs
Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and...
APT attackers are increasingly using booby-trapped RTF documents, experts say
Booby-trapped RTF documents are one of the most common types of malicious Microsoft Office files that are used to infect computers with advanced...
CSOs warned of serious cyber-espionage attack
A cybersecurity consulting firm has documented the existence of a China-based espionage operation that has infiltrated the computer systems of at...
BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors
BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital...
How to fight back against privacy pirates
Have you Googled yourself lately? Is the information about you accurate or full of inconsistencies, both of which can be devastating?
Is Facebook use in the enterprise too risky to allow?
It is not news that Facebook is less than aggressive about protecting the personal privacy of its 900 million users. But even relatively savvy users...
How to land a cybersecurity job
Cybersecurity jobs are plentiful, from government, financial services and utilities to manufacturing and retail. But what skills do IT professionals...
Hackers blackmail Belgian bank with threats to publish customer data
Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if...
Dutch court temporarily frees 17-year-old KPN hacking suspect
A Dutch 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN is set to be...
Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability
Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and...
House passes CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill, despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the...
Russia-speaking cybercriminals earned $4.5 billion in 2011, researchers estimate
Russian-speaking hackers earned an estimated US$4.5 billion globally using various online criminal tactics and are thus responsible for 36 percent of...
How GSA is securing its cloud apps
As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government...
Identity management in the cloud emerges as hot-button issue for CIOs
As Sallie Mae migrates some of its most important applications to the cloud, the nation's largest provider of college loans is keeping an eye on...
5 signs that you've lost control over your cloud apps
CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other...
IETF explores new working group on identity management in the cloud
Proponents of a common scheme for managing user identity in cloud-based applications will pitch their idea to the Internet's premier...
CA takes to the cloud for identity management
CA Technologies has gotten its feet wet with cloud-based security before, but now the company is moving further in with a package of cloud based...
5 cool tools for cloud management
Cloud management tools are as varied as cloud uses. For this test, we chose five tools that each attack cloud management from a different perspective.
SCIMing the provisioning landscape
I never thought I'd see the day when an XML standard was relegated to the trash heap as outdated. But that's exactly what appears to be happening to...