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Security/Cybercrime: Are Losses Out of Control — or Over-exagerated?

By Dick Weisinger

“Cybercrime is bigger than the global black market in marijuana cocaine and heroin combined ($288 billion) and approaching the value of all global drug trafficking ($411 billion)”  reports Norton (a Symantec company) on a 2011 summary infographic about cybercrime. Weysan

Security and BYOD: Security Concerns Increase as BYOD Trend Grows

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly companies are allowing their employees to use their own devices to access corporate data. Amy Cheah, market analyst for Infrastructure at IDC, said that “Widely publicized and high-profile BYOD case studies are further adding to the peer pressure. One in

Storage: Despite Cloud Storage Options, Backup/Restores Remain a Thorn for Many IT

By Dick Weisinger

Data backup and restore is causing many IT department managers to lose sleep. Many groups are grappling with the problem of growing data volumes.  The Symform survey found that more than half of companies expect their data storage requirements to

Single Sign On/Technology: Security Flaws Prove Worrisome

By Dick Weisinger

Single sign-on (SSO) creates a single authentication mechanism that allows a user to gain access to multiple software systems after logging in once.  It eliminates the need to separately login to each application that the user interacts with and reduced

Digital Certificates: Compromised Keys Threaten a Foundation of Security

By Dick Weisinger

SSL certificates encrypt and secure data.  The SSL certificate was designed to bring security to the internet A digital certificate is an electronic document that uses a digital signature to bind a public key to an identify.  The certificate verifies that