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Beating network attackers at their own game

Companies need to become more aggressive in collecting data on the attackers, security experts advise

How it pays to assume you've been attacked

Security gurus in recent years have liked to advise businesses not to ask if their networks will be attacked but rather when they will be attacked. Now, they are recommending that businesses assume

Network security fears are on the rise, CompTIA finds

When companies lose sensitive information these days, it tends to be mostly financial data and employee records, according to the Ninth Annual Information Security Trends Study from CompTIA.

Don't be an isolationist when securing the network

Securing company data in this day and age requires a lot of communication between IT and other departments. The only way you can approach security in isolation today is if your network has no

Check Point survey: Careless workers greater threat than hackers

Employees everywhere seem to be storing business contacts and email on mobile devices, but a lot of them are also storing customer data, login information and corporate data accessed via business

Report: Using flow data to improve network security

Dartmouth College reduced threats to its network by 90 percent and cut back incident analysis process time to mere minutes from weeks by using flow data. This is just one use case described in a

FBI uncovers 'lax' security in Nasdaq probe

No company can have every security vulnerability covered at all times, but if you're the Nasdaq--which suffered a security breach a year ago--shouldn't you at least have patches installed, firewalls

Amazingly true (and dumb) password practices

Cyber attacks are growing in sophistication and volume, and yet the latest techniques and malware aren't necessarily the ones to be the most feared. The age-old exploits and poor routine security

Behaviors that employees keep secret from you

There are more than enough truly frightening threats to the enterprise network to keep any information or security officer busy. But there are also a number of rather mundane threats from common...

How to secure data without locking down the network

To protect your company's data, you first have to know where it. That seems like a straightforward principle, but it isn't always easy to uphold, particularly with the burgeoning volume of mobile