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Akamai on CyberSecurity 2014 – Predictions with CSO Andy Ellis
Our CyberSecurity prediction series continues with the CSO of Akamai, Andy Ellis. Akamai delivers up to 30% of the world’s internet traffic and as one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms, it sees a whole lot of security, a whole lot of infrastructure and a whole lot of scale. Its content delivery network is ...
A look at Dell’s New End-to-End Enterprise Mobility Management Solution #DellWorld
Dell Software has announced today from DellWorld 2013 that it is entering the enterprise mobility management space with an all-new product. The product aims to provide safe, simple access to corporate data without threatening employees’ personal privacy or compromising the user experience. The end-to-end mobile enablement solution is designed to give customers a secure, managed ...
Egnyte hits $29.5 Million Series D funding, will expand globally
Technologies are constantly emerging that to capture all the requirements of modern computing, mobile, security, apps, file-sharing and so on. Nothing new there, but considering that there’s always an array of competitors doing things their own way, shooting for their own market, based on their own plans, it can be interesting to see how those ...
How does President John McAfee sound?
John McAfee, of all the ways to introduce him, all the background we could go into, the headlines – all that stuff sort of seems to fade into the same constant tone – eccentric, washed up, he’s in trouble – those things are easy to find out there . You know who he is and ...
State Healthcare sites open to Wi-Fi attacks
For weeks the incredible level of flaws of the Affordable Care Act sites have been big news. There have been reports of attacks, data-handling issues, there was even a report of a specialized DDoS tool designed to attack the site specifically. Despite a number of assurances that all is running well, the security issues should ...
UP-START Cloud Award finalists
The UP conference took place this week in Santa Clara, CA. The conference focuses on cloud technology and how scientists, developers, executives, researchers, engineers, and IT managers can use the technology within their computational and business challenges. The conference also announces an award series called the UP-START cloud awards, founded in 2010 by Cloudcor, Inc. ...
Drones that hack drones
This may shock some of you and others maybe not so much. There are hackers out there that love to experiment with drones. Thankfully the ones we know about are good guys. When they find some weakness or pull off a big hack, they let the public know and the parties that actually use the ...
Internet Kill Switch – Fact or Fiction
The topic has been around for a while. Is it fact or fiction? It seems that these days anything is possible, and something like that is way more probable than ever in light of the NSA surveillance news in the headlines each and every week. After all who would have thought just a year ago ...
Oops – Anonymous DDoS attack accidentally takes Microsoft services down
This week Anonymous, the notorious hacktivist group stepped up to take credit for an attack that took some Microsoft services offline for some time. Found in a post on Pastebin, the group released how a DDoS attack had been launched at some Japanese Microsoft (Domain) Websites and Servers. This probably translates to some sort of ...
Cybersecurity 2014 – What’s ahead for Alert Logic
In this second part of our discussion with Alert Logic’s Misha Govshteyn, we discuss the road ahead next year for Alert Logic. Misha Govshteyn is the VP of Emerging Products. Govshteyn is responsible for security strategy, security research and software development. Alert Logic is a Security-as-a-Service provider which has unique capabilities as a security platform ...