Posted on 01 November 2012 by Thales DIS
SplashData has released its list of the 25 worst passwords of 2012, including the usual suspects: ‘password’ (again, staggeringly, at the top of the list), 123456, and abc123. The list is quite similar to the one I discussed last year, albeit with a few arbitrary additions, such as “welcome”, “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, and the ever […]
Posted on 22 October 2014 by Neville Pattinson
Last week President Obama signed an executive order that is getting a lot of attention for mandating “Chip & PIN” EMV technology for all federally-issued payment cards and terminals. My colleague, Philippe Benitez, wrote a great piece about it here. It’s understandable that EMV is in the spotlight these days as the entire nation is […]
Posted on 31 October 2014 by Jennifer Dean
CIOs considering how their organization is exposed to different risks could gain some helpful insights from the heroes and villains in recent comic-book movie adaptions.
Posted on 07 November 2014 by Jennifer Dean
The CFO arguably has the top job when it comes to assessing risk and making decisions on security investments. Most will have the support of the CIO in evaluating all the risks associated with technology, but have they considered all the issues that modern working practice expose the executive management team to?
Posted on 19 November 2014 by Thales DIS
When it comes to cloud security, what are the pressing concerns of IT pros at SMBs? We went straight to the source – IT professionals at SMBs – and asked them. Our colleagues at CloudEntr, with the help of the Spiceworks IT community, recently surveyed 430+ IT pros to find what SMBs were really thinking about the […]
Posted on 12 January 2015 by Thales DIS
With new mobile devices like the iPhone 6 and Apple iPad Air 2 topping many present lists this year, we’ve compiled top tips to help businesses ensure they haven’t unwrapped mobile security threats over the festive period.