Monitoring is a vast subject and it is often difficult to think about everything you can monitor; even worse is deciding what is worth the cost of being monitored and what can safely be ignored.  …

I was reading a story on Reuters about a security expert who highlighted the point that ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have certain security flaws that help hackers hit the jackpot. Certainly an intriguing story as …

Security breaches threaten not only your infrastructure and data integrity, but also your standing in the business community and your organization’s very survival.  The protection of personally identifiable information (PII) has become a necessity in …

Education is an integral part of security. Educating your employees can be an effective defence against attacks; it can also help save money in some cases. Part of your bandwidth costs is consumed by spam …

In the past decade the internet has surpassed all expectations and changed the lives of us all. The World Wide Web holds little or no safety for the end user. Very much like the Wild …

Nobody likes to backup, but the reality is that hard drive failure or other types of disaster (natural or not) is something that we need to be prepared for at any time. What better way …

With the advent of the internet many people seem to forget about privacy and its importance.  Some people claim that privacy is actually dead and has been for a while and we have plenty of …

I came across a story about an old case from 2007 where hackers infiltrated T.J. Maxx’s wireless network at one of the outlets and stole over 45 million credit card numbers. Those involved got caught …

It is impossible and illegal to stop employees from using social networking sites 24/7 and even if it were legal it wouldn’t be a good idea as it could easily alienate your employees. The best …

Many times we think of security as policies, software, hardware and other such things; however, there is a lot more to it. When securing your network (especially in a large company with multiple locations) it’s …