Blog Posts Tagged with "Hardware"
Evolution vs. Revolution in the Enterprise Mainframe
April 25, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Mainframe technology can become dated quickly, and as application complexity increases, more space and increased mainframe functionality is required. If a mainframe fails to support advancing technology, application performance is put at stake...
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Real Questions about Huawei for US Rep. Frank Wolf
April 04, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
The Congressman was obviously attempting to either persuade the US China Economic and Security Commission or reassure them about Huawei. He passionately made a one-sided statement but failed to provide any evidence aside from one news report in that day’s Washington Post...
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What is Aurora and Why is it a Risk to Grid Reliability?
March 30, 2012 Added by:Joe Weiss
Aurora is a gap in the protection of the electric grid. It is a basic physics property - an out-of-phase condition that cannot be seen by the operator and can NOT be addressed by traditional mitigation. The only means to prevent an Aurora event is by physical hardware mitigation...
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Do You Need a Formal Policy for Managing Mobile Devices?
March 29, 2012 Added by:Kyle Lagunas
Security risks associated with BYOD policies continue to intimidate some - one respondent said he is “scared to death of security vulnerabilities” - but what would do more to minimize risks than to adopt an official policy?
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Rep. Frank Wolf: What’s with You and Huawei?
March 29, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
What are you saying, Mr. Congressman? Are you saying there are backdoors built into the equipment? Are you saying there is malicious code embedded in the software? Are you saying there is spyware hardwired into the chips?
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Nearly Five Percent of All Smartphones Lost Every Year
March 20, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Based on the costly consequences of lost data assets, it makes sense to allocate the necessary resources to invest in anti-theft and data protection solutions in order to secure smartphones and the sensitive and confidential information they contain...
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Twelve Security Best Practices for USB Drives
March 07, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Portable and mobile storage devices are significant players in most corporate offices. Ensuring proper protection with a best practices policy and strict enforcement offers significant risk reduction—and can prevent long nights on data breach investigations...
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Smart Grid Raises the Bar for Disaster Recovery
February 13, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Many of the organizations we have talked to simply have not begun the process of adjusting their risk assessments, disaster plans and the like for these types of operational requirements, even as smart grid devices begin to proliferate across the US and global infrastructures...
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Twelve Security Best Practices for USB Drives
February 07, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Portable and mobile storage devices are significant players in most corporate offices. Ensuring proper protection with a best practices policy and strict enforcement offers significant risk reduction—and can prevent long nights on data breach investigations...
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Bluetooth Security: Be Wary
February 07, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
Many of us use and love Bluetooth technology. It’s easy to set up and convenient to use. But you might want to think twice about what you use it for because that easy connection for you can also be an easy connection for a cybercreep...
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Don't Forget About E-Waste During the Holidays
December 28, 2011 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
How much time have you spent deciding what to do with the outdated smartphones, tablets, televisions, and computers? Don’t throw them out with the regular garbage. Instead, consider the environment, but first, take security precautions...
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The State of Solid State
December 22, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Solid state disks are more reliable because SSDs do not contain any moving parts. There are no read heads, actuator arms or spinning platters that can break down in an SSD. SSDs can be moved around freely while in use and have a higher tolerance against shock and vibration than HDDs...
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Modern Encryption – So Easy a Caveman Could Do It
December 20, 2011 Added by:Kanguru Solutions
Adding encryption is a relatively easy and cost effective way to secure your organizations data without adding significant cost or complexity. For organizations dealing with confidential information (healthcare, banking, government) it should be mandatory...
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Symantec Still Selling Huawei Equipment to the DoD
December 19, 2011 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
"In a letter to partners, North America channel chief Randy Cochran says the contract manufacturing relationship between Symantec and Huawei will remain unaffected, as will Symantec’s commitment to marketing and developing appliance-based solutions..."
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HP Printer Hack Video Shows Sensitive Data Tweet Too
December 06, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The researchers showed how a maliciously formed print job could cause an HP printer’s firmware to be reprogrammed so it acts like a copy machine – sending an exact print job to any place in the world, and the attackers also get a tweet showing sensitive information parsed from the print job...
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Millions of Printers Vulnerable to Hacking Attacks
November 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“How many of those printers are out there?’ It could be much more than 100 million... It may ultimately lead to telling everyone they just have to throw their printers out and start over. Fixing this is going to require a very coordinated effort by the industry..."
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- Not Totally Sure What Just Happened...
- Has Anonymous Infiltrated the US Government?
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- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
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