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Towerwall and MassBay Host Another Successful Information Security Summit

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall teamed up with MassBay Community College on May 29 to present the second annual Information Security Summit at MassBay’s Wellesley Hills campus from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Over 250 individuals attended the Summit where they interacted with industry experts and participated in various security panel discussions. After a presentation on the “Anatomy of a

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Deciding Between Vulnerability Scanning And Penetration Testing

Michelle Drolet

My clients often confuse scanning and penetration testing. Organisations should be conducting both external vulnerability scans and penetration tests. If you are storing or transmitting data on the Internet, particularly sensitive data such as credit card details, then quarterly scanning is required to validate your PCI compliance. You also need to conduct a penetration test

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The Benefits of Cloud-Based Endpoint Security

Michelle Drolet

The cloud computing revolution is well underway and there are lots of benefits to be realized. According to Awesome Cloud research the industry will be worth more than $150 billion this year, compared to $46 billion just six years ago. Mirroring the general trend for SaaS solutions, cloud-based IT security systems can be an ideal fit for

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Why security professionals need to get more creative with penetration testing (and how to do it)

Michelle Drolet

Criminals are evolving with their techniques for hacking and breaching corporate assets, so security managers need to as well. Here are some ways companies are going beyond standard pen testing in order to increase awareness By Maria Korolov  Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find

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Towerwall Information/Vulnerability Alert Vol 13.69: Cisco Security Notice

Michelle Drolet

Cisco Security Notice Cisco WebEx Business Suite HTTP GET Parameters Include Sensitive Information CVE ID: CVE-2014-0708 Release Date: 2014 March 18 19:07  UTC (GMT) Last Updated: 2014 March 19 17:58  UTC (GMT)SummaryA vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Business Suite could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information transmitted in GET parameters of URL requests.The vulnerability is due to inclusion of sensitive information in

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Towerwall Information Security/Malware Alert Vol 13.67 – Notorious "Gameover" malware gets itself a kernel-mode rootkit…

Michelle Drolet

Zeus, also known as Zbot, is a malware family that we have written about many times on Naked Security. We’ve covered it as plain old Zbot. We’ve covered the Citadel variant, which appeared when the original Zbot code was leaked online. We’ve even written about the time it pretended to be a Microsoft fix for CryptoLocker, a completely different

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Stay Secure in the Cloud with Sophos Cloud Endpoint

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall and Sophos, partnering to protect data integrity in the cloud. Towerwall is now offering Sophos Cloud Endpoint, a new security option for small and medium sized businesses. Sophos Cloud Endpoint offers an integrated, lightweight agent that protects your business, users and their computers. 24/7, anywhere in the cloud. Sophos Cloud Endpoint gives you endpoint

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Top 10 things to know about mobile security

Michelle Drolet

10. Malware is on the rise The threat of malware on mobile platforms is growing steadily as more and more cyber criminals target mobile devices in increasingly sophisticated ways. 9. Byod is a challenge There are obvious benefits to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, but it also creates IT challenges and exposes your

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Why wasn’t healthcare.gov security properly tested?

Michelle Drolet

When the healthcare.gov website was launched on Oct. 1 it didn’t take long for technical issues to hit the headlines. Americans trying to register for health care found the website unusable. There were glitches, extremely long loading times, and serious errors, but most worrying of all for anyone entrusting sensitive data to the system was the lack

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Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to  join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business! May 29, 2014  8:00AM – 1:00PM MassBay Community College 50 Oakland Street  | Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 Early Bird Special: $35

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