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Cloud Computing and Security: More than Half of Sensitive Data Stored in the Cloud goes Unencrypted

By Dick Weisinger

The storage of sensitive data in the cloud is something that’s inevitable, say a majority of 4000 IT professionals.  More than half of those organizations actually are already using the cloud to store some amount of sensitive or confidential data.

Enterprise Security: Executives and IT Managers Have Different Perceptions of Security

By Dick Weisinger

IT teams often leave their executives in the dark.  A Ponemon security report found that about a third of IT security staff only inform their executives when they feel that there is a serious risk and 29 percent never communicate

Cloud Computing and Security: SAML ID security Method of Choice for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. A report by  identity management tools specialist OneLogin found that: 97 percent of SaaS vendors say that they back SAML 67 percent of

Proactive CyberSecurity: Businesses Brace for an Expected Increase in Number of Cyber Attacks in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

“We must take proactive steps to safeguard the nation from the malicious cyber activity that is draining our intellectual property, harming commerce and threatening the integrity of our infrastructure,” said Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson from Mississippi. Analysts are predicting that

Enterprise Mobile: Popular Downloadable Free Apps Threaten Enterprise Security

By Dick Weisinger

Mobile devices are increasingly being used by enterprise and government employees for their work.  Larry Payne, Cisco vice president, said that “in the near future, the number of mobile devices will exceed the world’s population, and by 2017, we expect