Businesses must increasingly deploy application gateway services to enforce consistent security standards across the 16 different application services that the average enterprise is currently using, according to a new survey that also flagged difficulties in enforcing security across ‘multi-cloud’ application strategies.
David Braue | 24 Jan | Read more
Application vendors and security companies are steadily responding to the call for better information security, with a slew of new automated tools working to bolster security from the developer to the endpoint device.
David Braue | 18 Jan | Read more
Microsoft’s Application Guard creates a hardware-based virtual barrier between Windows hardware and zero-day attacks on Edge users.
Customer satisfaction is closely linked with the efficacy of information-security protections, a senior quality-assurance executive has warned as new global research reveals that despite their recognition of security's importance Australian companies are struggling to secure the right skills and processes to ensure a high-security customer experience.
David Braue | 20 Sep | Read more
In case there existed any previous questions regarding how Oracle's chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson, felt about its customers uncovering software vulnerabilities in its applications, they were laid to rest yesterday in a strongly worded blog post, No, You Really Can't. The post, swiftly pulled by Oracle, apparently held nothing back when it came to her views that under no circumstances should customers, or their hired security researchers, evaluate Oracle source code for potential security flaws.
George V. Hulme | 14 Aug | Read more
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By Bill Weinberg, Senior Director, Open Source Strategy, Black Duck Software | 05 Mar | Read more
The move to agile development practices poses both challenges and opportunities to security teams -- with the challenges often dominating. But some organizations, such as the Aetna insurance company and the state of Texas, have found ways to make it work.
Maria Korolov | 27 May | Read more
What do you do when 600 mission-critical workstations can't say goodbye to Windows XP, but support for the operating system is ending? That was the challenge facing biopharmaceutical company Quintiles Inc., in Durham, N.C.
Stacy Collett | 04 Feb | Read more
Facebook is laying odds that artificial intelligence (AI) can trump human intelligence – or, to be more precise, a lack of human intelligence.
Taylor Armerding | 27 Jan | Read more
Every year the numbers and the types of devices security professionals find themselves having to secure from attacks keep growing, and there's certainly no sign of that letting up at Black Hat 2014 this year.
George V. Hulme | 05 Aug | Read more
Apple's App Store, Google's Play store and other app stores are packed with apps that can compromise your security and privacy without you ever knowing anything bad happened. What's a mobile app user to do?
Mike Elgan | 07 Dec | Read more
According to research by F5 Labs, more than 81% of all web page loads are now encrypted with SSL/TLS, which means that we are moving very quickly toward an Internet where nearly every piece of data in transit will be encrypted. However, the rise of SSL/TLS isn’t all good news. Attackers are increasingly hiding insidious attacks within encrypted traffic—which means that the security protocol itself has become a threat vector. Regaining visibility into that encrypted traffic is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your apps, your data, and your business Find out how today.
