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Security: Low Technology Tools Highly Effective for Hacking Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

While businesses increasingly are beefing up security controls to prevent hackers from the outside from penetrating their computer systems, they often overlook their vulnerability from within their organization.  Low-tech hacking techniques for gaining access to systems can be very effective.

Security: CFOs Finally Begin to Team up with CIOs to Battle Cyber Security

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by Raytheon/Ponemon in late December 2014 found that there was a steep disconnect between CIOs and their non-CIO C-level executive counterparts.  Chief Information Security Officers portrayed their companies as ill-equipped to combat cyberattacks and lacking the resources to

Security: Employees Are Greatest Risk to Business Cyber Security

By Dick Weisinger

Careless and negligent employees are viewed as a top security risk by many companies now.  A report by Ponemon and Lumension found that 78 percent of businesses expressed that view.  Additionally, the increasing number of employees working from their home

Quantum Cryptography: Harnessing the Quantum Properties of Electrons to Secure Communication

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly we are seeing that the achilles heel of modern digital technology is security. JP Morgan, Sony, Target, Anthem, and Uber are just a few of the examples of businesses that have all been headlined in the news because of

Security: Federal Agencies Focus on Security of their Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

When asked to grade themselves on how well they’ve secured their IT infrastructure, nearly three-quarters of federal agencies gave themselves either an ‘A’ or ‘B’.  Despite that, the agencies also admit that there are areas of security where they’re lacking