In the past, data center security was simpler to implement; in fact, there was a time when data center managers could see all the inputs and outputs to the mainframe in one or two rooms. However, this was when data was input via punched cards and output was recorded on tape or impact printers using ...

Some business leaders may be surprised to discover that the biggest risk facing organizational data is not from individual hackers or even large groups of cybercriminals. Those high-profile breaches do have a tendency to make headlines, but there is a much quieter threat that all organizations must ...

Hackers have turned to automation as a way to efficiently orchestrate attacks against a large number of targets. Combined with increasingly sophisticated malware, organizations have reason to be a little concerned about the effectiveness of their traditional, perimeter-based defenses such as firewal...

Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...

The major obstacles that must be overcome to effectively share data between partners are: Different security format standards Different operating system or hardware platform Different security policies The use cases below explore each of these obstacles: Use Case #1: Partner chooses secu...