Malcolm Palmore of the FBI's Cyber Division discusses how law enforcement agents are working closely with private sector security leaders to investigate DDoS attacks and help mitigate the effects.
Leading today's RSA Conference 2014 industry news roundup, Citrix partners with CA Technologies, while WinMagic introduced an encrypted data management solution.
Recent breaches tell the story: Organizations are not entirely prepared to respond to such incidents. Craig Carpenter of AccessData discusses the next generation of incident response.
While January's seemingly isolated distributed-denial-of-service attacks against JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America may have been a blip, DDoS expert Barrett Lyon says stronger attacks are on the way.
While massive DDoS attacks were dominant in 2013, this year, smaller application-layer attacks going after such things as log-in pages and password files are far more common, says Rich Bolstridge, chief strategist, financial services, at Akamai Technologies.
Too many businesses are worried about how security might adversely affect the user experience, even among their own workforce, says Bert Rankin, chief marketing officer of ThreatMetrix.
Log analysis is often used for managed security, but are organizations going far enough with the information they have at their fingertips? Don Gray, chief security strategist for Solutionary, says there is much more organizations could be doing to predict breaches.
Simple credentials, such as passwords, are a hacker's best friend, says Phillip Dunkelberger of Nok Nok Labs, a founding member of the FIDO Alliance. That's why the alliance is working to reduce reliance on passwords by enabling advanced authentication.
Although the growth of cloud-based data centers offers opportunities to more rapidly deploy applications, it also raises new security issues, says Steve Pao, senior vice president at Barracuda Networks.
CipherCloud's Paige Leidig discusses a new offering that helps enable organizations rapidly adopt a cloud application as it protects sensitive data and ensures compliance to policies and regulations.
Advanced, ever-evolving threats call for security solutions vendors to counter with equally advanced and sophisticated solutions. JD Sherry of Trend Micro discusses new strategic alliances and product sets dedicated to creating new measures of threat defense.
Neiman Marcus has revised downward its estimate of the number of payment cards compromised in its breach last year. Company CEO Karen Katz offers new details.
Two critical steps that banking institutions need to take in 2014 to help prevent fraud are implementing big data analytics and adopting far more sophisticated customer and employee authentication, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a credit card breach affecting customers of a Canadian online health and beauty products store and a breach at a British grocery store chain's website.
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