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Auditory Senses With the consumerisation of technology, including the surge in 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD), the mission of making it all hang together facing many businesses - and auditors, too - has taken on a nightmarish edge.

Features

Byod Goes Viral A massive amount of today's Bring-Your-Own-Device activity goes unchecked, leaving businesses at enormous risk.

The Access-Lockdown Dilemma Businesses, many with global operations, are now entering a new level of collaboration and openness that will increase their organisational vulnerability to data breaches. As we all start to share and utilise data on a massive scale, how do we stay safe?

How to combat employee negligence At least 270 million unique types of malware have already been identified, with 60,000 new pieces created each day. And there's probably more than one right near you!

Taking On The Organised Networks A special CyberCrime Reduction Partnership is being created by the government in a bid to tackle what has become a concerted and ever-growing global threat.

Commerce Without Compromise How do you ensure the safety of the physical data centre and network, and the security of your data, when engaged in ecommerce? Here are some guidelines.

Digital evidence is everywhere! How secure is the information on your smartphone? Who has been looking at your electronic documents and web mail? Welcome to the world of forensics, where the experts know nigh on everything about you.

Security with app-titude! Apps are everywhere, it would appear, and spreading like wildfire. What are the security implications? and just how do you keep pace?

The Worm's Still Turning In a two-part investigation, computing security lookS at the ever-growing threat from worms, viruses and spyware: and how security systems can detect and repel these at all points in the network.

Embracing The Two-Factor Factor Can you really increase security and reduce cost with two-factor authentication?

Reviews

8MAN Access Rights Management software Data protection regulations demand that access rights to corporate IT resources are managed effectively and yet most companies cannot truly say they know precisely who has access to what.

Titania PAWS Studio Companies handling sensitive or personal information must show compliancy with data protection regulations, but this puts many smaller businesses in a quandary.

News

Businesses at risk from BYOD? Almost a third (31%) of senior managers use personal smartphones for work and close to a quarter (23%) of businesses have a 'bring your own device' (BYOD) policy in place

Keeping A Watch-out for the phishing tricksters In the wake of the hacking attempt on Evernote, the digital note-taking service, in which usernames, users' email addresses and encrypted passwords were accessed

Losing Track Of Critical Data Means Trouble In Store Commenting on a New York Times story about the governance issues that portable devices and their leaky apps create for companies

Data Security Confidence Drops For Off-Site Working According to a new survey, IT decision makers are significantly less confident in the security of data accessed by employees on the road or at home

Business-critical apps targeted Palo Alto Networks has released the 10th edition of its 'Application Usage and Threat Report', based on analysis of network traffic of more than 3,000 organisations.

Lack of staff compounds security fears Commenting on the conclusions of the sixth (ISC)2 annual security workforce study - in which 56% of the 12,000-plus respondents reported their security departments as short-staffed and 15%

Disk Protect Support For Microsoft Windows 8 Tablets Becrypt's DISK Protect for Microsoft Windows 8 tablets, featuring unique on-screen pre-boot keyboard support, is now available.

Data security simplified and strengthened Pegasystems, provider of business process management and customer relationship management software solutions, has standardised on Vormetric Data Security to reassure its global customer base it is securing their data

Battling beebus-style threats Nexor has collaborated with Glasswall Solutions to provide a patented security product that directly addresses the Beebus style of threat. With antivirus software struggling to keep up with the threat of Zero day malware

Instant global view of denial of service activity Prolexic has introduced PLXpatrol, a public service that users can leverage to gain an instant global snapshot of current denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) threats and activity.

Key to greater encryption across the enterprise Thales has unveiled keyAuthority 4.0, a comprehensive hardened key manager, that provides full support for Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) version 1.1.