DRM AND LEGAL ISSUES NEWS
Thwarted by security at enterprises, cyber criminals target SMBs
May 16, 2012 | TAYLOR ARMERDING
Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and invested enough in security to make it difficult, expensive and risky for cyber criminals to attack them.
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10 hacks that made headlines
May 16, 2012 | JOAN GOODCHILD
Ten infamous social engineers -- con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical vulnerabilities.
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Forrester outlines 5 rising, 5 declining security technologies
May 16, 2012 | ELLEN MESSMER
Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away.
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Chartis launches cyber insurance for businesses
May 14, 2012 | T.C. SEOW
Called CyberEdge, the product is designed to address the consequences of losing corporate information and personal data from cyber attacks, in addition to covering potential third party liabilities that may arise from a data breach or network intrusion.
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SAP gets tough on violation of software use terms
May 11, 2012 | JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN
A recent crackdown by SAP AG on companies that it considers are indirectly accessing its software without paying for it could spell trouble for some longstanding customers of the software vendor, an analyst firm said this week.
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IBM: The rapidly changing role of top security executives
May 7, 2012 | MICHAEL COONEY
Security issues are exerting a ton of pressure and monetary concerns on the executives in charge of keeping corporate networks and assets safe.
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Good ideas need strong engineering
May 4, 2012 | F.Y. TENG
CEO of Zurich, Switzerland-based high-end software and security engineering firm, AdNovum, Ruedi Wipf, spoke to MIS Asia (April 30, 2012) about his company's plans for expansion in Asia, its most recently completed project-building a web-based logistics system for a client in the business of making cement-and how information security should best be managed by organisations worldwide.
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