As we close the door on another year of protecting our networks from the never-ending security threats, I hope the information I’ve provided in this blog has been valuable in your ongoing efforts to make your enterprise more secure. December was a month with a number of articles focused on the larger trends in security in 2009. Continue reading this post…
Cyber thieves cracking banks’ two-factor authentication systems
According to Gartner’s Avivah Litan, even two-factor authentication systems can’t stop today’s cyber thieves. Over the past few months, banks around the world that rely on one-time-password authentication systems have been compromised by man-in-the-middle attacks, despite having two-factor security in place.
Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek writes in his article, “Strong Authentication Not Strong Enough,” that fraudsters are now using call forwarding to bypass security measures. Continue reading this post…
A call for proactive security … I prefer real protection
With industrialized hacking on the rise, organizations serious about protecting their data must take proactive measures if they expect to win the war against cybercriminals. That’s Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman’s straight-forward message to applications owners everywhere and lists some real trends that are threatening businesses everywhere. My take, this is a good list, but while proactive is good, protective is better.
In this week’s TechJournal South article, “Industrialized hacking tops five data security trends for 2010″, Mr. Shulman’s data security firm listed its top five security predictions for 2010: Continue reading this post…
Top Endpoint Security Stories for November 2009
November was a busy month for security stories. The month kicked off with more stories of massive security patches from both Microsoft and Apple leaving me to wonder when the patching madness will ever end. Windows 7 was found to have a flaw that allows denial of service attacks. Internet Explorer v7 (IE7) even made it into the news with the latest vulnerability, but I question efforts to patch an aging application, why not just upgrade or use Firefox? If they aren’t willing to upgrade, do people really think they will patch IE7?
Without further delay, here are the stories that caught my eye in November: Continue reading this post…
Thanks to our customers, partners and employees for helping us change computer security
In the spirit of Thanksgiving week, I wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks to all of our customers, partners and employees who are helping CoreTrace change the face of computer security. It has been a fantastic year so far and we have a lot to be thankful for. More than ever businesses and individuals are looking for a new approach to computer security, and application whitelisting has come to the forefront as an alternative to traditional antivirus.
We are certainly excited to be a top vendor of application whitelisting and are looking to finish the year strong and look forward to a breakthrough 2010.
Thanks again to everyone involved in making CoreTrace a success.