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News about data security

• 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?

Features about data security

• 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