Network Security

Synack delivers crowdsourced security for government, snags IRS contract

Another play on the crowdsourced security theme, Synack manages to snag a customer not usually seen on such approaches

Penetration testing for small companies

Your security mirages

Some things you use to keep your systems and data safe aren’t as secure as you think

AI makes security systems more flexible

Advances in machine learning are making security systems easier to train and more flexible in dealing with changing conditions, but not all use cases are benefitting at the same rate

When DR fails

Lessons learned after my main server got hacked

Arbor Networks adapts missile defense strategy for DDoS protection

Networked DDoS defenses mitigate the danger from hacked IoT devices

Phishing scheme crimps El Paso for $3.2 million

City/FBI has recovered almost $2 million but the menace remains

Ixia’s Flex Tap Secure+ protects against injection breaches

This new network tap will be of value on networks running bandwidth-intensive, mission-critical applications that need to be secure

Improve IT security: Start with these 10 topics

Why don’t developers have a ‘spellchecker’ for security’?

Wouldn't it be nice if software developers had something like spellcheck, but instead of catching simple grammar mistakes, it caught basic security problems?