Security

NextNine’s security platform helps to reduce industrial cyber risks

Provides a "circle of hardening" to increase the security posture of industrial systems and critical infrastructure

With new startup, Check Point Software co-founder bets on perimeter-less security

Will Cato Networks be able to convince enterprises to trust its cloud with their data?

Schneier: terrorists will switch to more secure alternatives to avoid encryption backdoors

Study says there are 546 encryption products that lie outside US law, maybe more

Which security products do enterprises expect too much from?

Indegy finds out when industrial controls go bad (think Stuxnet)

Appliance gives insight into the control plane of programmable logic devices that run power grids and factories

Voter targeting becomes voter surveillance

Political campaigns have always sought to shape their message to attract specific groups of voters. But big data analytics now makes it possible to create personal profiles of individual voters. And that is raising concerns among privacy advocates

Critical VPN key exchange flaw exposes Cisco security appliances to remote hacking

Firewalls running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software can be compromised remotely with malformed UDP packets

Bill filed in Congress would ban encryption backdoors

The proposal would make it so states couldn’t write their own laws about technology to decrypt private messages

U.S. intelligence chief touts IoT as a spying opportunity

Stating the obvious, James Clapper says the U.S. government could use the IoT for surveillance.

Healthcare CIO: Legal issues are most difficult cloud migration challenge

Boston healthcare organization BIDMC readying to move business critical systems into the public cloud