Ransomware is a huge and growing problem for businesses, and organizations of all sizes need to devote considerable resources to preventing infections or recovering their data if they fall victim…
Encryption is a smart idea for protecting data on a USB flash drive, as we covered in our piece that described how to encrypt a flash drive using Microsoft…
Download our free Encryption Vendor Report comparing Digital Guardian and Microsoft BitLocker based on reviews, features, and more! Full disk encryption software protects the contents of laptops and other…
Issuing one-time password (OTP) tokens to third-party organizations to provide privileged remote access to your network can lead to a data security disaster, warned research director Felix Gaehtgens at the…
The next generation firewall (NGFW) was first identified and defined in 2009, but adoption has been relatively slow. By 2015 Gartner estimated that fewer than 40 percent of enterprise Internet…
Failure to fix known software vulnerabilities is a big reason why organizations’ networks get breached. In some cases organizations run software with known vulnerabilities for years. Forty-four percent of known…
Security professionals are increasingly acknowledging an uncomfortable truth: No network is secure from a sufficiently skilled and determined attacker. So while every effort should be made to prevent intruders getting…
Nmap was not the only popular open source network security tool to receive a recent upgrade. Wireshark 2.0.0 , an open source tool used for network sniffing and packet analysis,…
While the breach prevention and detection market is dominated by names like Symantec, McAfee and Juniper, open source tools are also popular with security pros. Open source security breach prevention…
A new version of Nmap, a hugely important open source security tool used for network mapping and port scanning, exploded onto the scene last month, giving network security staff…
