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BlackBerry's wipeout creates major mobile
security gaps

The BYOD movement has effectively wiped out ultra-secure corporate BlackBerrys. New measures are needed to keep data secure on mobile devices. View Article

Lost in Transit: Personal Devices Pile up
at U.S. Airports

It’s hard to beat the convenience of a smartphone or tablet — which, unfortunately, may also explain why more of them are going missing at the nation’s airports. View Article

Three Simple Ways to Keep Track of your Passwords

Hackers stole 6.5-million passwords off the LinkedIn website. That same day, 1.5-million passwords were stolen from the dating website EHarmony. View Article

Learn to Protect the Security of your Portable Phones

There are conflicting statistics on the use of passwords to protect personal information on mobile phones. And none of the figures are encouraging. View Article

Should You be Worried about Hacktivism?

Hacktivism is hardly a novel concept but there continues to be a vocal debate over what hackers are after and why they pursue specific targets. View Article

The Data Access Tug-of-War: Ensuring PHI Security

Organizations face a tug-of-war between the conflicting priorities of providing easy access to data and ensuring that data is protected. View Article

LinkedIn Confirms Passwords were Compromised

LinkedIn has announced that some of its accounts were compromised Wednesday morning, and is forcing users that were hacked to change their passwords. View Article

Encryption on the Go

The growing consumerization of IT is turning into a security nightmare for many IT departments, but it's perhaps hitting the healthcare industry worst. View Article

Betting on a Breach

In February of this year, the University of North Carolina-Charlotte issued a statement that a breach had occurred. It now seems to have been a serious one. View Article

Preventing EHR Data Breaches

Companies need to be more concerned than ever about data breaches when it comes to protection of electronic health records (EHRs). View Article

Ten Questions with Credant CFO David Becker

Credant CFO David Becker discusses his career path, his inspiration and what he believes makes an organization successful. View Article

Frazzled Travelers Find it Tough to Keep Tabs on Their Tablets

Credant's survey shows that more and more mobile devices are getting left behind, up to half of which are never reclaimed. View Article

An Open Mind, and Open to Attack

An emphasis on the open sharing of ideas makes higher education more vulnerable to network attacks than corporations. View Article

Microsoft, Google Unveil Cloud Storage and File-Sharing Service

IT pros have two more enterprise file-sharing services to choose from now that Google and Microsoft offer their own versions of a Dropbox product. View Article

What Identity Thieves Want From a Data Breach

Hackers want a lot of different types of information, but there are two very specific types of consumer information that can present problems. View Article

Re-thinking Defense, In-Depth

With the rise of Advanced Persistent Threats, the consumerization of IT, the growth of cloud services and the accelerating rate of data mobility, the idea of in-depth defense gains appeal. View Article

Pining for Failure in the Cloud

The cloud promises reduced costs and increased flexibility, but it also raises security concerns. View Article

Employees Often to Blame for Data Breach

Recent research shows that employee negligence is a factor in 39 percent of data breaches. View Article

Healthcare Industry Feels Impact of Cloud Computing Potential

As cloud computing rises, the healthcare industry looks to employ a careful approach to keep data secure. View Article

Lost and Found in the Travel Industry

Lost and Found processes in the travel industry give forgetful travelers optimism. View Article

Hackers Now Aiming For Your Credit Reports

A recent investigation found that some brazen hackers are now angling to make off with consumers' entire credit files. View Article

What Global Payments Did Right in the Security Breach

Global Payments spotted the breach on its own, which would imply that the credit card processor has both monitoring tools in place and policies that enable it to use the information gathered and to respond appropriately to a breach. View Article

Tale of the Tablets

Health care professionals, particularly physicians, have quickly embraced the iPad as a user-friendly product. View Article

Global Payments Answers Questions About Breach and Posts Earnings

In a conference call Monday, Global Payments Inc. updated Wall Street analysts on the self-reported breach into its processing system. View Article

Millions of Credit Card Holders at Risk after Security Breach

Visa and Mastercard are investigating a security breach at an electronic transaction processor that may have put the details of millions of credit card holders at risk. View Article

Global Payments Inc. Confirms 'Massive' Data Breach

Global Payments confirmed late this afternoon that "card data may have been accessed," in a hacking episode in early March. View Article

Credit Card Processor Hit by Hackers

Merchants and consumers could be the big losers in the latest case of hackers cracking the complex systems used to process credit and debit card transactions. View Article

New York Cab Firm Linked to Credit Breach

Credit card giants Visa and MasterCard were scrambling on Friday to thwart cyber crooks who looted a massive trove of precious account data, evidently from a payment processor in New York. View Article

'Massive' Credit Card Data Breach Involves all Major Brands

A data breach at a payments processing firm has potentially compromised credit and debit card information from all of the major card brands. View Article

Credant Enhances Partner Program in Move to 100% Channel Model

The expansion of the Credant Partner Program, marks the latest stage in the company's transition to a 100% channel model. View Article

FBI Megupload Shutdown Cuts Off Users From Data

For many users, the shutdown of MegaUpload had nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with the fact that their backups and data were now gone. View Article

Making the Cloud Work for Healthcare

Cloud computing offers incredible opportunities to improve healthcare, reduce costs and accelerate ability to adopt new IT services. View Article

Despite Backlash, SOPA, PIPA Give Healthcare Execs Something to Think About

Two copyright enforcement bills are struggling to stay afloat in Washington, facing protest from web companies and users, but the real problem to be considered is who you'll be sharing the cloud with. View Article

Tablet Security: A Bitter Pill

Everyone wants a tablet, but securing them is a challenge, especially for enterprise organizations who have to navigate protecting sensitive data on plethora of mobile devices. View Article

BYOD & BYOC may Change Everything about Security

Bring your own device (BYOD) or the growing practice of employees using their own devices, blurs the line between enterprise and personal computing, and complicates compliance. View Article

RSAC 2012: Lost or Unclaimed Devices Pose Risk to Corporate Data

Centered on the risk posed by lost mobile devices, which is anything from USB drives, to laptops and tablets filled with company data, a recent hotel survey notes owners often never reclaim their lost items. View Article

Leonardo da Vinci and the 'Real APTs'

Although many of the details are still not known, it looks as though the recent disclosures of a (very) long lasting breach at Nortel could be a prime example of the risks of not dealing swiftly with a breach. View Article

2012: The More Things Change...

The business world, increasingly driven by consumerization trends, adopts ideas and approaches regardless of the underlying long-term security implications, leaving IT security to pick up the pieces. View Article

Enterprises Need Encryption to Secure Private Data

Security experts urge users and enterprises to adopt data protection and proper key management to secure sensitive data from accidental exposure View Article

Data Plunderers Run Off With Zappos Customer Info

Thieves made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers, the online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos revealed leading them to contact customers to take precautions. View Article

Mobile Devices Redefine Healthcare Security Management

From laptops to smartphones to tablets, mobile computing, especially in the healthcare industry means organizations must deal with the problems of data security, privacy, and compliance View Article

As Tech Threats Grow, So Do Security Firms

Expanding its security offerings into cloud computing, the company also plans to boost its headcount 10 percent to 20 percent over the next year. View Article

Smartphones put Data Management Security at Risk

Smartphones have revolutionized data management, bringing information to people's fingertips when they are miles from the office, but that's not all. View Article

Don't Lose your Phone – and Your Identity

Here's a way to compromise your identity and risk important data this holiday season - lose your cell phone when you're shopping. View Article

Taking Privacy into the Cloud

Next year we'll see three big changes in the cloud occur in the way that cloud services, especially cloud storage, are used. View Article

Cloud Technology in a Healthcare Setting

The ability to quickly access computing and storage resources when needed, is pretty much the perfect solution for many hospitals, health clinics, and doctor's offices. View Article

Leaving Your Smartphone In The Food Court Could Get Your Identity Stolen

If you're planning to hit the ground running this Black Friday, you better keep a sharp eye on your smartphone. View Article

Report: Lost Devices mean Lost Data during Holiday Season

With the holiday season nearly underway, shoppers are encouraged to keep track of all their computing devices to steer clear of identity theft. View Article

Shoppers Need Watch for Scams While Using Mobile Devices on Black Friday

Shoppers heading to the stores should be vigilant when using mobile devices as scammers and criminals will be gunning for them, security experts warned. View Article

Dell Unveils Expanded Data Protection Encryption Portfolio

As organizations are storing and accessing data on more endpoints than ever, Dell rolls out the Dell Data Protection|Encryption portfolio. View Article

Stepping into the Breach

No organization is immune to a breach. Being prepared and having a response plan can mean everything in the event that data is exposed. View Article

A Difficult Balancing Act

The purpose of EHR is to make data accessible to healthcare organizations, however, easy access poses large security threats to the sensitive data. View Article

Stolen TRICARE Health Records did not Meet Federal Encryption Standards

4.9 million TRICARE beneficiaries had their healthcare information breached due to the theft of computer tapes that lacked proper encryption policies.View Article

The Changing Face of Hacking

"Hacking" has evolved into to full-blown organized crime in recent years, and as new technologies like the Cloud emerge, cyber criminals will keep up. View Article

Staying Out of the Headlines Through Encryption

As breaches continue to increase, popular targets for criminal hackers tend to be universities and healthcare providers, as they store vast amounts of data. View Article

Healthcare Breaches Getting Costlier

With millions of exposed healthcare records yearly and financial impacts upwards of $75 per record, data breach remediation can be extremely significant, and preventable.View Article

Cloud Security Growing Up

Although the security of data in the Cloud remains a pressing issue, Cloud-specific security services may soon enable safer, more secure storage.View Article

Contractor Leaks 20,000 Patient Records From Stanford Hospital

A data breach at Stanford University's hospital resulted in the exposure of 20,000 emergency room patients' medical records for nearly a year. View Article

Security Breach Hits Wisconsin University Server Storing Student, Faculty SSNs

Malware placed on a database server may have exposed the names and social security numbers of over 75,000 former and current students and faculty members. View Article

Lessons Learned from the Pentagon Breach

The Pentagon breach of 2011 proves that no matter how good your security is, breaches still occur, and the battle is fought and won where the data resides. View Article

What a 'Second Internet' Means for Small Businesses

Numerous experts are advocating a second, more secure Internet, but many small business owners object, saying it will create large e-commerce challenges. View Article

Data Breach Concerns Growing

Darren Shimkus, SVP of Marketing for Credant Technologies, talks on the benefits of Credant data protection in an era of ever-increasing data breaches. View Article

Your Security is Already Compromised

As cloud computing is sharply rising, more people are blindly bringing the cloud with them to the office, blurring the lines of business and consumer IT. View Article

iCLoud's Dark Security Lining

Apple's iCloud storage raises many security concerns for enterprise organizations, as automatically syncing could accidentally push sensitive data outside corporate walls. View Article

Dell Launches File-Based Encryption Solution for Removable Media

Dell has announced the launch of a file-based encryption solution called Dell Data Protection | Encryption that uses technology from Credant that encrypts drives at the file level. View Article

'Twas the Night Before Lion

Despite Apple being quiet lately, many people are speculating what will happen next and anticipating new product launches, such as iOS 5 and iCloud. View Article

Dropbox Accidentally Turned Off Passwords on File Storage Service

Due to a bug in the code that accepted any password, the data of Dropbox's 25 million users was left exposed to anyone in the world for several hours. View Article

Is It Safe to Bank Online?

With Citibank's recent data breach making headlines, security experts are encouraging consumers to take a few basic precautions to ensure safe online banking. View Article

Smartphone Theft, Loss Outweighs Malware Risk, McAfee Report Finds

With nearly half of today's organizations reporting lost or stolen mobile devices, how should businesses better address mobile device security? View Article

Essential Elements to Keep Your Enterprise Secure

As next-generation security technologies emerge, there are still basic techniques and technologies to keep in place as your security foundation. View Article

How to Get Ready for the Cloud—and Keep Your Customers Safe

As security is top of mind for the ever-growing popularity of cloud computing, many organizations are turning to encryption to keep their data secure in the cloud. View Article

Regulatory Compliance Update

Evolutionary advances in technology are extending the reach of data to millions of people around the globe, and organizations are now under the gun to comply with strict regulations that seek to protect sensitive information. View Article

Building BitLocker into your Enterprise Data Security Strategy

BitLocker may well be one of the most important features of Windows 7. For organizations looking to protect information on their PC and laptop hard drives, BitLocker offers both cost-effective and readily available protection. View Article

Evolving Data Breaches: Gaming Systems

A recent attack on Sony's computing system left over 100 million customers' private data exposed, and is now one of the biggest data breaches to date. View Article

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO of Credant

Sramana Mitra interviews Credant CIO Chris Burchett about the current cloud computing issues that he and Credant are currently handling. View Article

Seven Emerging Cloud Security Vendors

The cloud is still nowhere near mature. According to respondents of Gartner's 2010 CIO survey, security should be the number one priority. View Article

Protect Your Data from Skype for Android

Currently, the Skype app for Android has been putting sensitive personal data at risk, potentially exposing it to other apps without knowing it. View Article

Top Five Cloud Computing Security Concerns

For most organizations, security is top of mind when moving internal
IT departments to a third party such as the cloud. Learn the top concerns to be aware of. View Article

Failure to Encrypt Portable Devices is Inexcusable, says Analysts

Despite a constant push from security analysts to protect data on portable devices, a surprisingly large number of companies continue to ignore their advice. View Article

How to Create and Remember Super-Secure Passwords

As passwords are needed for nearly everything, we use the same, easy-to-remember passwords over and over, eventually getting ourselves into trouble. View Article

BP Oil Spill Claimants' Personal Data Disappears with Lost Laptop

While on a business trip, a BP employee loses a laptop containing the personal information of over 13,000 people that filed compensation claims after the April 2010 spill. View Article

University Data Breaches Underscore Need for Employee Security Training

The latest breaches compromising the data of thousands of university students and faculty are reinforcing the idea of educating employees about security implications. View Article

Top Security Trends for 2011

Cloud security was front and center at RSA 2011, including a number of vendors who are trying to address the challenges of cloud security. View Article

Does a High-Performance Cloud Make for More Work?

Geoff Webb, Senior Product manager of Credant, discusses some thoughts around the changing importance of protecting information in the cloud. View Article

Cloud Risks Are Outweighing Benefits

People want to use the cloud for lower costs and increased flexibility, but core security problems associated with cloud storage are causing apprehension. View Article

Five Overlooked Threats to Cloud Computing

As we move from physical environments to virtual ones, security threats are changing and challenging even to the most sophisticated security administrator. View Article

Workers Stealing your Data - the 2011 Headache

Information is one of the primary competitive weapons and business enablers for organisations of all kinds. Learn how to reduce insider threats. View Article

Credant Embraces the Cloud with On-Net, Policy-Based Encryption

CREDANT has begun testing its data encryption technology in the cloud with a select number of beta test clients, promising other cloud offerings in the future. View Article

Credant Announces Cloud Encryption Software Platform

Jeff James discusses his meeting with Credant at RSA 2011 about the launch of the Credant Cloud Security Open Beta and why it's unique. View Article

The Do's and Don'ts of Data Classification

Data classification is often referred to as something of a black art in the field of IT risk management. Learn practical tips for implementing a data classification scheme and more. View Article

Information Security Media Group Interviews Credant

ISMG's team talks to key information security thought-leaders at RSA 2011 about topics that matter most; like security, privacy, compliance, technology, and more. View Article

Credant Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition Product Review

For its ease of use and robust feature set SC Magazine gives Credant Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition a five-star rating and lists it as one their Best Buys. View Article

Getting a Grip on Data Classification

Assigning data a level of sensitivity doesn't have to be an uphill battle. Learn practical approaches to implementing data classification. View Article

Battling the Cyber-Security Threat

Cloud computing, mobile devices and online banking are just a few of the threatened technological forces of personal and commercial security that demand relentless and flexible measures. View Article

WikiLeaks Indirectly Reveals IT Holes in Data and Payments Protection

Research from Credant says that across all industries, 85 percent of companies allow employees to use USB drives despite corporate policy banning them. View Article

Hacker Uses Rented Computing to Crack Hashing Algorithm

Chris Burchett, CTO and co-founder of the data security firm Credant, said: "It's easy to start up a 100-node cracking cluster with just a few clicks." View Article

Top-Notch Drive Management & Security

CREDANT's FDE DriveManager helps SMEs realize the full value of self-encrypting drive technology to address data breaches, the number one priority for most security teams. View Article

Dell Encryption Solution Launches

Dell Data Protection | Encryption, based on Credant's intelligent file-based encryption technology is now available to help Dell customers simplify data protection and comply with security regulations. View Article

Nuclear Secrets Revealed after Unencrypted USB Stick Found

According to Credant vice president, you don't have to be a nuclear scientist to know that the data carried on these devices must be protected. View Article

SC Magazine 'Best Buy'

CREDANT Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition gets 5-star review across the board, earning a 'Best Buy' rating. View Article

The Global Texan

Bob Heard, the CEO and founder of Credant Technologies has his sights set on further expansion overseas. View Article

Negotiating Through the Security Minefield on a Budget

The economy leaves many CISOs with the unenviable task of securing data whilst under the pressure of constrained budgets. View Article

Consumer Tech Pollutes Enterprise IT

As big companies struggle to ban social networking from employees' smartphones, Cisco uses third-party technologies to build on smartphone VPN product. View Article

Most IT Professionals Fail to Encrypt USB

Over half of IT professionals do not encrypt the USB sticks they use to store company data, a survey has revealed. View Article

Carriers Target Ease of Use

Gerald Shields, CIO of Aflac, names Addison, Texas-based security vendor Credant Technologies as a key partner on a hard drive project recently implemented by Aflac to make life easier for their agents. View Article

Working In Bed

Do you work in bed? If so, you're not alone. About a quarter of workers in the UK reported using a mobile device such as a laptop in bed before they went to sleep. View Article

Half a Million Pound Fines for Data Breaches from Today

The Information Commissioner will be able to issue fines of up to half a million pounds to businesses that break the Data Protection Act. View Article

Hang up on data breaches

The outbreak of potential data breach reports in the UK prompts obvious and inevitable questions. View Article

Vulnerabilities, Regulatory Compliance Drive Data Protection Market

In this difficult economy -- some say because of the economy -- data security remains a spending priority. Companies still must meet regulatory compliance requirements; layoffs, and the specter of impending layoffs, have exacerbated corporate concerns about employees taking sensitive information out the door. View Article

Office intruder 'steals' data

There have been high profile cases of laptops left on trains and, according to a recent survey from data security firm Credant Technologies.View Article

Trade in secondhand BlackBerries booming in Nigeria

A TV investigation has revealed that secondhand BlackBerries on Nigerian markets are priced according to the data held on them, not the age or the model of a phone.View Article

How DoD can maximize & use removeable media

As 2008 came to an end, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed reports that some military networks had been breached by malicious software uplodaed via removable media.View Article

Valspar Chemist Charged With Stealing Company Secrets

A former Valspar Corp. employee was accused by U.S. prosecutors of stealing trade secrets from the paint maker, then packing his belongings for a one-way trip to China where a new job in the same business awaited him.View Article

DHL Spoofed, NYPD Goofed, And Cybercrook Runs For Office

Forget the Sopranos. In the 21st Century, the mafia is digital. But just like the old days, they focus on the shipping industry, corruption inside law enforcement, and political implantations.View Article

Mobile users at risk of ID theft

A survey of London commuters suggests that 4.2m Britons store data on their mobiles that could be used in identity theft in the event they are stolen.View Article

Brits stuff mobiles with risky ID data

CREDANT's recent survey found that 80% of mobile phone users store information on their phones that could easily be used to steal a person's identity. This stored data can be easily used for ID theft purposes, especially because of the minimal security measures they take to guard the data. View Article

The Worm that Turned

CREDANT's recent survey found that many hospital staff regard mobile devices as an essential tool. Just last month, three London hospitals were hit by a computer virus that shut down large parts of their IT systems demonstrating that old threats do not go away. View Article

Tighter budget, canny spending

During these dark days, companies will need to look at ways to reduce overheads, be smart with their diminishing budgets and seek solutions that provide value for money, says Michael Callahan, Credant. View Article

City workers keep Blackberrys close on holiday: report

London (Reuters) - Many City workers are unlikely to have a relaxing summer holiday this year, with 83 percent admitting they will take their mobile phone or Blackberry with them, a report said on Monday. View Article

Security pros focused on internal threat, training

The 2008 Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by analyst firm Frost and Sullivan for certification organization (ISC)2, reports that organizations are shifting their focus to the threat posed by insiders and turning their attention View Article

CSO Online

March 19, 2008 - New security threats from every which way as virtualization, SOA and mobility projects proliferate and converge, they open the enterprise to a rash of troublesome network security problems. Hear from Credant customer Gaylord Hotel View Article

700,000 people could be affected by security breach

Indianapolis - Sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers could be in the hands of thieves. The data is stored on computers stolen from a south side collection agency. View Article

Tips for Mobile Data Security

Accounting Web IT Zone - Under the Data Protection Act, most commercial organizations have a legal obligation to protect data effectively. Peter Mitteregge of Credant Technologies sets out a basic outline for coping with the risks of mobile computing View Article

NetworkWorld - Credant boosts system file encryption for laptops

New encryption features don't require additional authentication step for users View Article

Nemertes Research Newletter

When Pakistan decided to censor YouTube this weekend, it unfortunately botched the technology. By issuing BGP routes that black-holed YoutTube, government officials hoped to stop all national access.View Article

UK gov't laptop with confidential disc sold on eBay

Computerworld, Feb. 28, 2008 - The disc had the words 'Home Office' and 'Confidential' written on it.View Article

Global Security Magazine - Credant Launches Full Data Encryption2

CREDANT Technologies, specialist in endpoint data protection solutions, has once again redefined security for data residing on vulnerable endpoints with the latest release of Credant® Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition (v6.0).View Article

Windows IT Pro - Credant's Full-Data Encryption

"FDE" is usually thought of as the acronym for "full-disk encryption," but to Credant Technologies, "FDE" means "full-data encryption."View Article

eBIZq - Credant Launches Full Data Encryption

CREDANT Technologies has released Credant® Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition (v6.0). View Article

Credant Technologies works on the insider threat

IT Week, 20 Feb 2008 - Security firm Credant Technologies has launched new technology that will protect organizations from both insider and external threats in a single solution. View Article

Data breach costs soar

43% rise in costs as companies scramble to notify customers Nov. 29, searchsecurity.com View Article

Credant Technologies: Making a Name

August 14, 2007 By Darrell Dunn, CIO Insight View Article

Data breaches, compliance drive intellectual property protection

10 Jul 2007 | SearchSecurity.com - Companies are bracing themselves for the next data breach, implementing technology and processes to protect intellectual propertyView Article

GAO Reports Data Breaches are Frequent, Full Extent of Resulting Identity Theft is Unknown

Jul 5, 2007, GTN While comprehensive data do not exist, available evidence suggests that breaches of sensitive personal information have occurred frequently.View Article