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Big Data and Security: Misconfigured Data Repos Leave Terabytes of Data Unsecured

By Dick Weisinger

Everyone is scrambling to jump aboard the Big Data bandwagon.  Big Data, data analytics, No-SQL databases are just a few of the technology tools that are popping up for managing, massaging, and measuring just about any kind of data you might have.  The problem

CyberSecurity: If You’ve Been Hacked, You’ve Got Company

By Dick Weisinger

Half of Internet users have run afoul with some kind of security issue over the last year. eMarketer, a Marketing Research company, recently pulled together some interesting statistics about how vulnerable we all are when using the Internet to conduct

Amazon TLS: Amazon Offers Simpler More-Secure Open-Source Replacement to OpenSSL

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an alternative cryptographic module for transmitting data across the Internet.  They’re calling it “s2n“, short for “signal-to-noise”.  s2n is an implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and could be a successor to OpenSSL

Security: CyberAttacks Costly to Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

The average cost of a data breach today is $3.8 million, according to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM.  That’s a 23 percent increase over the costs involved as computed in 2013. When looked at on

Security: Hacked Data Spreads “Staggeringly” Quickly

By Dick Weisinger

You might have heard of the “Dark Web”, a realm of the internet where hackers rule and can communicate among themselves. Recently the company Bitglass did an experiment to see the extent of the reach of the Dark Web.  Bitglass