Accept it; cyber-attacks are happening to your company too.
You may have seen in the news that LivingSocial recently experienced a cyber-attack where 50 million customers’ name, email address and password were exposed. While that news typically makes the headlines, what is not being emphasized is everything that LivingSocial did right to safeguard their customer’s personal data.
Accept it; cyber-attacks are happening to your company too. The hacker’s strategy is to prey on the psychology of employees. Spear phishing, watering hole attacks, social media and poisoned SEO sites s are just some of the weapons of choice. According to Symantec, businesses in 2012 with 2,500 or fewer employees were the targets of 50 percent of the attacks, and those businesses with fewer than 250 employees accounted for 31 percent of the attacks. Here are some other 2012 statistics to confirm the statement that, “there are two types of businesses, those that have been hacked and those that don’t know it yet:” Read More→
We had a great presence at the ISC West 2013 conference in Las Vegas. One recurring theme we heard from ID resellers was their desire to offer their existing customers a value add, card based, logical access solution for network security. 
I have always believed that any two competing technologies have their advantages when placed in the proper environment. Whether it’s a contact versus contactless smartcard, or NFC versus RFID card, both can do the same function but which is it the best use of the technology? For example, contact smartcards are horrible for physical access due to reader wear and exposure to weather environment. 
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An SEO Cyber Mule or SEO Hack is when unauthorized links are embedded into your website without your knowledge for the sole purpose of increasing Google rankings. For Google to increase a site rankings they look for the number of one-way backlinks. That’s why the hackers do it. In most cases these links are to pornographic movies, material and services that have nothing to do with your business. These links are positioned so they don’t actually appear on the webpage, but Google can still see them when they send in the spiders. So why is this problem?
Millions of dollars in fines associated with alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act have been doled out over the last six months, a sign, according to experts, that HIPAA enforcement is shedding light on the fact that the industry lags behind others when it comes to information security.
SAP is the market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions that include customer relationship management (CRM), product life management (PLM), supply chain management (SCM), supplier relationship management (SRM), and more. SAP applications and services enable over 197,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. With all that valuable and sensitive information, an IT administrator’s other concern is securing it to HSPD-12 compliance levels. 
