Cloud Security Attracting More Investors
As more data, enterprise applications and other workloads move to public clouds, greater attention and investment are going into cloud security as a way to protect data while managing ...Full Article
Data Encryption in the Cloud Falls Short
As more data and enterprise applications are moved to public cloud services, a surprisingly high number of enterprises responding to a new cloud security survey said they are not ...Full Article
Industrial IoT Framework Targets Security
The brick and mortar of an industrial Internet of Things is arriving with a security framework designed to balance the safety and reliability requirements of industrial operations with an ...Full Article
Survey: Cyber Complacency Growing
Despite an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of cyber attacks, enterprises large and small claim they are doing enough to mitigate the effects of a data breach. ...Full Article
U.S. Announces First Cyber Chief
A retired Air Force General has been tapped to be the nation's first chief information security officer, the Obama administration announced this week. Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill previously ...Full Article
Japan Touts Adjustable Crypto for IoT, Cloud
Japanese engineers claimed to have developed the first secure "cryptoprocessor" able to adjust security levels on the fly without first upgrading the device itself. Previously, the researchers noted, encryption ...Full Article
Survey: Security Risks Soar Along With Cloud Workloads
The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. ...Full Article
Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments
Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to ...Full Article
IT Security Shifts From Reactive to Proactive
With security threats growing more sophisticated, the market for information security products is expected to boom over the next five years, led by security testing, IT outsourcing and data ...Full Article
SIEM Gains as Consumer Security Software Fades
Security information and event management (SIEM) software fueled a robust global security software market in 2015 even as sales of consumer security software declined sharply last year, according to ...Full Article