“Severely understaffed” corporate IT security organisations need to concede that they can't do everything and undertake a realistic assessment of their capabilities before building partnerships with the companies that can, the global head of security operations with Verizon has warned.
David Braue | 23 Dec | Read more
On paper, in many ways, the state of the CSO appears to be improving. Budgets in many enterprises appear to be headed in the right direction: up. So is staffing. CSOs are also getting to do what they've wanted to do for a decade and are spending more time with the top executives in their organizations.
George V. Hulme | 16 Dec | Read more
The idea that the world stands on the edge of an ‘Internet of Things' is barely out of the hype cycle and already Verizon has announced a new cloud system designed to authenticate the billions of devices that might one day populate it.
John E Dunn | 21 Nov | Read more
The organizers of the Defcon hacking convention have publicly asked U.S. federal government workers not to attend the event this year due to tension in the hacker community caused by the recent revelations about the U.S. government's electronic surveillance efforts.
Lucian Constantin | 11 Jul | Read more
A large gang of privacy organizations lead by Firefox browser developer Mozilla has launched Stopwatching.us, a new advocacy group (and website) calling for greater privacy protections in the way the government conducts its electronic surveillance programs.
Mark Sullivan | 12 Jun | Read more
Recent news reports alleging broad surveillance efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency seem to have left more questions than answers. Whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of collecting massive amounts of data from U.S. residents, but U.S. officials have largely denied his allegations.
Grant Gross | 10 Jun | Read more
Any company receiving a similar order to Verizon's would have no choice but to comply to avoid serious legal consequences, experts say
Antone Gonsalves | 06 Jun | Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency has been allowed by a court order to collect phone records of a large number of customers of Verizon, according to a report in the Guardian on Thursday.
John Ribeiro | 06 Jun | Read more
In the battle for the next generation of enterprise IT, John Stratton carries a lot of weapons. Stratton is president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, the nearly $30 billion unit formed just over a year ago to deliver networking, cloud, mobility, managed security, telematics and a host of other services in a more coordinated fashion for Verizon's top enterprise buyers. Building on a traditionally strong base of wired and wireless network services, Verizon Enterprise also blends in acquired assets like cloud hosting company Terremark, security company Cybertrust and Hughes Telematics. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Stratton spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Verizon Enterprise's progress since its inception, including a dramatic streamlining of internal systems and processes designed to make life much easier for the company's customers. Stratton also discussed the company's suite of services aimed at simplifying life for IT teams struggling with mobility and the influx of consumer devices, and he talked candidly about the prospects for a third mobile platform to rival Apple's iOS and Google's Android. He also talked about how cloud is reshaping the IT landscape and hinted at a series of major upcoming cloud announcements from Verizon Enterprise. Also, he explained how the "Internet of Things" is creating powerful new business opportunities for Verizon and its enterprise customers.
John Gallant | 13 May | Read more
Twitter and Sonic.net took top scores in a new Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) report rating tech companies' stewardship of users' personal data and their willingness to hand over data to the government. The two companies got high marks on each of the EFF's six privacy best practices categories, which include things like "require a warrant for content," "tell users about government data demands," and "publish transparency reports."
Mark Sullivan | 02 May | Read more
Thhere is a trend towards espionage emerging, according to the <i>2013 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)</i> from [[xref:http://www.arnnet.com.au/tag/Verizon|Verizon|All on Verizon]], which found an increase in state affiliated attacks over past reports.
Patrick Budmar | 29 Apr | Read more
Industrial espionage by Chinese “state-affiliated actors” was responsible for one in five data breaches reported to Verizon by customers and through a range of global police forces, the company’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has found.
John E Dunn | 23 Apr | Read more
Even though the majority of data breaches continue to be the result of financially motivated cybercriminal attacks, cyberespionage activities are also responsible for a significant number of data theft incidents, according to a report that will be released Tuesday by Verizon.
Lucian Constantin | 23 Apr | Read more
Australian organisations’ growing comfort with the security of hosted cloud services is paving the way for increased investment in local data centre space and new approaches to cloud-related infrastructure models as Verizon, Rackspace and others push new facilities into an ever-busier market.
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
A system that aims to curb Internet users from sharing copyrighted content is being rolled out in the U.S. after a number of delays.
John Ribeiro | 26 Feb | Read more