Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

With users flocking toward mobile platforms, fraudsters will join as well. But businesses have a bigger problem: What to do about employees wanting to use their devices to connect to the corporate network.

David Balcar, security adviser practice manager at Novacoast discusses various aspects of his job.

This month, we are tackling identity management, network access control (NAC) and data leak prevention (DLP).

Because people have behavioral characteristics, the Silver Tail Forensics 3.0 - latest incarnation of this fine tool - can catch and stop them while providing analytical capabilities for forensic analysts.

Debate: Flame, Stuxnet and other APTs are hype, but you should still be extremely worried.

With DDoS attacks garnering more public attention than ever, crooks are taking advantage of the craze by providing online attacks in exchange for cash. What can your company do to avoid being a successful target?

The latest high-profile advanced persistent threat victim is Adobe, after "sophisticated threat actors" were able to infiltrate a build server to access the company's code-signing infrastructure. The compromised cert is to be revoked.

When it comes to insider threats, we often focus on implementing technologies and auditing at the endpoint, but it's the user behavior that we have to get a better grasp of.