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Mandatory data breach laws kickstart compliance race

Panel urges business to get its house in order
Centrify inks strategic partnership with Vera

Enables enterprises with unified access to sensitive information across Cloud and on-premises systems
5 For 15: Elizabeth Parsons, A/NZ Business Development Manager, Imation Mobile Security (IronKey)

The keys to 2015 from industry leaders
More than 1 billion records breached in 2014

In IT security, worst case scenarios became commonplace in 2014, and there's no end in sight. Headline-making data breaches will likely continue into this year, ...
Making a hash of passwords

After so many high-profile data breaches, it's time developers learned that storing passwords is a really bad idea. And there is a perfectly workable alternative.
OK, BlackBerry, what else have you got besides security?

The once-dominant mobile-email player's latest pitch is irrelevant for today's smartphone buyers. Can the company's BYOD pitch save the day?

The Sony breach may be start of new nation-state cyberattack

It has been an exceptional year for IT security breaches and part of an escalating trend in destructive attacks, and it's going to get worse.
Supervalu breach shows why move to smartcards is long overdue

US remains one of the last developed nations to use magnetic stripe cards
Security must evolve to be 'all about the data'

Dell 1-5-10 Series security discussion considers the future threat landscape
11 reasons encryption is (almost) dead

Massive leaps in computing power, hidden layers, hardware backdoors -- encrypting sensitive data from prying eyes is more precarious than ever
CIO not the only one to blame for Target breach

Beth Jacob's resignation not surprising, but disappointing analysts say
Huge turnout at RSA shows hackers are winning

The high number of attendees and exhibitors at security confab are indication of troubled times