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NSFOCUS anticipates a big year for DDoS threats in 2014
As we look at the year ahead, predictions on cyber security are coming forward from throughout the industry. Today’s prediction series comes from cyber security expert Vann Abernethy of NSFOCUS, an anti-DDoS firm. Abernethy focuses on one of the most painful attacks in the industry, DDoS attack. He addresses the various attack methods, businesses’ security ...
John McAfee on Healthcare.gov, surveillance and D-Central
We’re back with the rest of John McAfee’s take on cybersecurity in 2014 – a little bit about the Healthcare.gov website, spying and his forthcoming product D-Central. SiliconANGLE: I saw somewhere that you called the Healthcare.gov website “a hacker’s wet dream”. We’ve covered a bunch of these issues here from the beginning. They’re certainly ...
HP Security 2014 predictions wrap-up
Wrapping up our conversation with HP Security’s Andrzej Kawalec, the topic again is cybersecurity in 2014. Andrzej is the CTO of HP Security. SiliconANGLE: Let’s talk about HP’s enterprise-level security approach. How are things different at HP when it comes to security? Kawalec: We can point to few things here. There’s this massive global scale ...
Target ‘targeted’ along with 40M consumer credit accounts in a massive holiday retail attack – Was it malware?
Well you can’t say you weren’t warned about the risk in all this Black Friday stuff. It’s more about retail transactions in general. The national news has picked up the story of Target’s massive data breach and the investigation that is ongoing there. The specter of this breach apparently may affect as many as 40 ...
Good Technology CEO Christy Wyatt on security, mobility, apps in 2014
Today we wrap up the report from our discussion with Good Technology CEO Christy Wyatt on the topic of projections in the world of CyberSecurity in 2014. SiliconANGLE: Please share some thoughts on Good Technology’s role in a better CyberSecurity profile in 2014 Wyatt: Good Technology is very happy with the company’s growth trajectory. The reasons ...
2014: Akamai’s Andy Ellis on enterprise security at scale, risk strategy and the complex web
Our 2014 CyberSecurity prediction series continues with Andy Ellis of Akamai. SiliconANGLE: We’ve talked a bit about the threat landscape in 2014, do you think that there is enough technology and personnel to meet all of these threats right now? Ellis: There aren’t enough security personnel that really understand the business. There are lots of ...
RSA’s Art Coviello shares his security predictions for 2014
The following is a guest post from Arthur W. Coviello Jr. – Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC Many people have pointed out the folly of making predictions. The risk/reward of doing so is out of balance. When you predict correctly, the predictions look obvious in hindsight. When you ...
CyberSecurity predictions with John McAfee
Earlier this week, John McAfee’s perspective on national technical matters was published here. We had a lot of comments come in on that interesting story. Next, we continue with our Cybersecurity prediction series on a number of topics with John McAfee, Founder of McAfee Associates. The threat of State-sponsored attacks, Privacy and Apps SiliconANGLE: ...
Good Technology CEO Christy Wyatt on Security and Mobility in 2014
The world of mobility has many elements and there are no shortage of solutions built to deal with the issues that organizations deal with. What is scarce however are solutions that actually answer all of these problems well, and there are few if any companies that are doing mobility as well as Good Technology. They ...
HP Security Talks about Cybersecurity 2014
SiliconANGLE has been covering a number different perspectives from across the industry on cybersecurity predictions for 2014. With HP’s flagship annual event, HP Discover wrapping up this week from Barcelona, it only makes sense to bring in the point of view of one of the leading security services voices in the industry. HP’s Enterprise Security ...