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Compliance Combines with Vulnerability Scanning to Create Aegify

Michelle Drolet

Two security firms, the established Rapid7 vulnerability manager and eGestalt, a cloud-based compliance management provider, have signed an OEM deal that will do something for the IT security industry that hasn’t been done before: a combination security and compliance posture management offering called Aegify SPM. The SPM stands for Security Posture Management, and eGestalt of Santa Clara

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Mobile Devices Get Means for Tamper-evident Forensic Auditing

Michelle Drolet

Providing early evidence of tampering can shorten investigation times for breaches and audits. The convenience of mobile devices has led to their rapid proliferation in the workplace. But along with that convenience comes security and compliance issues contributing to the degeneration of trust. Risk management for mobile devices is of rising concern, particularly in highly

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Trust Your Third-Party Applications? Think Again….

Michelle Drolet

Don’t assume those third-party apps you buy are fully secure. Despite the promise of cloud computing, companies are still buying software. And it is more cost effective to buy an application and plug it into your system than it is to develop anew. How many third-party applications has your company bought off the shelf? How

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Towerwall is proud to be named a Trend Micro Platinum Partner

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall is proud to be named a Trend Micro Platinum Partner . Towerwall has aligned itself with industry-leading security application and policy management solution providers. These strategic relationships enable Towerwall to offer its customers an integrated approach to solving their security and policy management needs by coupling best-of-breed technology with top-notch integration services. To learn more about

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Fake PayPal Emails Distributing Malware

Michelle Drolet

Everyday there is a new threat with seemingly innocent emails being sent out that look close to an official correspondence from a company, from Paypal, ADP and BBB – to name a few. Cybercriminals are mimicking the online payment processor PayPal in a malicious spam campaign that attempts to dupe customers into downloading malware from

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Top 10 PHP Security Vulnerabilities

Michelle Drolet

Security is not a list of things you do. Security is a way of thinking, a way of looking at things, a way of dealing with the world that says “I don’t know how they’ll do it, but I know they’re going to try to screw me” and then, rather than dissolving into an existential

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Dealing with Phishing Messages

Michelle Drolet

According to the article in Dark Reading, Study: Phishing Messages Elude Filters, Frequently Hit Untrained Users, many people are still being tripped up by phishing emails. The article summarizes the findings of a survey that was conducted at the Black Hat USA security conference held in July 2012. Of the 250 conference attendees that were polled,

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Introducing Towerwall’s BYOD Policy Services

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall is proud to offer our new Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy Services. In recent years, the workplace has become more mobile than ever, and the mobile worker revolution is, in large part, the need for clear Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies. The big idea is that through the use of cloud computing-based

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Introducing Towerwall’s VOIP Assessment Services

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall is proud to offer our new VOIP Assessment Services. Do you know if your VoIP phones and servers are segmented from the rest of your network? Even if they are, segmentation alone may not protect your voice assets. Towerwall, Inc. has developed an approach that is extremely effective in testing the security of VoIP

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Introducing Towerwall’s Threat Spotlight

Michelle Drolet

We are proud to announce our Threat Spotlight, sign up for our Twitter feed and get the latest threats and how to protect against them. Threat Spotlights as of October 15, 2012: AutoInf AutoInf is a component used by many malware families, notably Conficker, Sality and AutoRun. AutoInf is used to automatically run associated

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