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Big data the security answer?

Posted March 11, 2013 - 11:23 am

The recent RSA conference in San Francisco was awash in talk of big data, but it was clear there was some disagreement about what people mean by big data and some outright skepticism about it being the answer.
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Why IT security pros can be scarier than the 'bad guys'

Posted March 1, 2013 - 11:50 am

I thought I harbored a healthy amount of paranoia before I went to this week's RSA Conference for IT security professionals in San Francisco. But now I'm just plain scared--and not about hackers and phishers, the perennial bogeymen of the Internet underground.
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Cloud security forecast: Murky with an 80% chance of finger pointing

Posted February 28, 2013 - 5:51 pm

Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs.
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Cyber's Strangelovian moment?

Posted February 25, 2013 - 10:03 pm

A steady drumbeat of news about sophisticated cyber attacks against our government and leading institutions has attendees at this year's RSA conference in a fever. And that may be bad for security.
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DoD: Military must be capable within 'cyber' domain

Posted February 16, 2011 - 12:55 pm

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III said the Department Of Defense (DoD) will soon complete a new cyber security strategy that explicitly recognizes cyberspace as a new battlefield.
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Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say

Posted February 16, 2011 - 12:50 pm

Acknowledging that security technologies to prevent cyberattacks are insufficient, several vendors at the RSA Conference urged companies that are making security plans to assume that at some point, they will be breached.
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HP combining IPS and SIEM to better fight malware

Posted February 15, 2011 - 10:12 am

HP this week will demonstrate at the RSA Conference how its TippingPoint intrusion detection and prevention (IPS) appliance can work with the ArcSight security and event information management (SIEM) product it acquired late last year to block anomalous threat activities against Web sites.
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Oracle Database Firewall defuses SQL injection attacks

Posted February 14, 2011 - 10:27 pm

Oracle is using the RSA Conference this week to launch a database firewall designed to block suspicious traffic.
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Startup protects sensitive cloud data without breaking apps

Posted February 14, 2011 - 10:23 pm

CipherCloud, a startup launching this week at the RSA Conference, protects sensitive data being transferred on the Web without breaking the applications using the data.
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iPhone security, IP route hijack prevention on tap at RSA Conference

Posted February 14, 2011 - 1:05 pm

RSA Conference product announcements will focus on everything from iPhone/iPad security to Windows 7 exploit security and the latest in Unified Threat Management.
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RSA Conference 2011: Cloud security challenges dominate

Posted February 10, 2011 - 11:49 am

RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco Feb. 14-18 will feature a number of sessions devoted to cloud security issues.
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What security technology will be hot at RSA 2011?

Posted February 3, 2011 - 3:22 pm

The annual RSA Conference, now in its 20th year, will be rocking next week as the security industry gathers in the weeklong extravaganza of product introductions and security experts arguing cloud and mobile computing security issues.
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From cloud and mobile security to encryption, security concerns abound as RSA turns 20

Posted February 3, 2011 - 10:11 am

Microsoft's Bill Gates being a turning point at which RSA became an all-encompassing security forum. "It was a big acknowledgment for Microsoft to send its top executive here," she says. The conference has drawn Cisco's CEO John Chambers, U.S. department of Homeland Security secretaries Michael Chertoff and Janet Napolitano
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Cloud Security Alliance plans RSA summit

Posted January 10, 2011 - 1:03 pm

CSA will provide updates on progress in several research areas, including security-as-a-service, incident response and its Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) stack.
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Fired CISO says his comments never put Penn.'s data at risk

Posted March 18, 2010 - 8:56 pm

Former Pennsylvania CISO Robert Maley, who was fired after speaking at RSA without proper authorization, offer his side of the events that led to his dismissal.
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Security execs express surprise over CISO's firing following RSA talk

Posted March 12, 2010 - 10:16 am

Several security executives today expressed surprise over the firing of Pennsylvanias chief information security officer, apparently for publicly speaking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system without getting the required approvals first.
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Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Posted March 11, 2010 - 1:45 pm

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.
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The next cyber war will be for your wallet

Posted March 6, 2010 - 10:55 pm

Is the United States in the middle of a cyber war? You'd think the answer to that question would be obvious. But apparently it depends on whom you ask.
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CISOs rain on cloud-computing parade at RSA

Posted March 6, 2010 - 10:49 pm

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference.
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Analysis: Does the storm over cloud security mean opportunity?

Posted March 6, 2010 - 10:31 pm

How to balance the cost savings of cloud computing with the loss of control over corporate data was a hot topic at this week's RSA Security Conference.
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RSA Conference 2010 and Security B-Sides Recap

Posted March 5, 2010 - 3:44 pm

Didn't make it to this year's RSA conference or B-Sides San Francisco? Here's what you missed.
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Cloud security, cyberwar dominate RSA Conference

Posted March 4, 2010 - 9:46 pm

Cloud security loomed over the RSA Conference this week as a major concern of business, but worry about the threat of cyberwar was also strong, with officials from the White House and FBI weighing in to encourage private participation in government efforts to defend information and communications networks.
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Former NSA tech chief: I don't trust the cloud

Posted March 4, 2010 - 2:46 pm

The former National Security Agency technical director told the RSA Conference he doesn't trust cloud services and bluntly admonished vendors for leaving software vulnerabilities unpatched sometimes for years.
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Chinese attacks like the one against Google are on pace to double this year

Posted March 4, 2010 - 2:42 pm

Recent Internet attacks from China against Google and other U.S. companies will more than double this year if the pace during the first two months continues, a security expert says at RSA Conference.
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Tweet this: Social network security is risky business

Posted March 4, 2010 - 10:05 am

The debate about whether companies should let their workers access social networking sites on the job is about more than corporate productivity; It's about security, too.
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