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Internet Explorer, .NET, IPv6 and Shockwave top the February 2014 Patch Tuesday list

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Michelle Drolet

For today's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released seven bulletins (a surprise after only announcing five last week) and Adobe released one. There are four critical advisories, to me the most important of which is MS14-010 affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10. This patch fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one of which has been publicly disclosed. Considering that 22 of these vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution, this fix is priority one. MS14-007 is a flaw in the Direct2D graphicsfalse

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Introducing our Quarterly Newsletter: the Data Security Review

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Michelle Drolet

I am excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter, the Data Security Review.

Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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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!

Establishing Security Goals

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Michelle Drolet

Implementing security practices in your organization’s employees’ daily work habits, and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information security, the goals of the Security Awareness Program are:

10 Things I Know About ... Passwords

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Michelle Drolet

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3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure

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Michelle Drolet

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure Outsourcing has won out over ownership, and the rush to the cloud continues to gather pace. Where security is concerned there are two major trends that threaten to expose your company to unnecessary risk. There’s a lack of planning and due diligence when choosing cloud providers, and there’s a murky grey area when it comes to responsibility. They can both be mitigated by building security planning into your system from the start, instead of trying tofalse

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How Can you Expose Targeted Attacks and Combat APTs?

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Michelle Drolet

Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don’t have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached, typically through manipulation of employees using a technique such as spear phishing, and existing security systems are unable to detect the attack. Data can be harvested forfalse

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10 Things I Know About... Mobile Security

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Michelle Drolet

10. Malware Is On The Rise The threat of malware on mobile platforms is growing steadily as more cybercriminals target mobile devices in increasingly sophisticated ways.

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Four Steps to Respond & Recover from Sophisticated Security Attacks

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Michelle Drolet

Great information in SC Magazine’s latest whitepaper report, ‘Four steps to respond and recover from sophisticated security attacks’, it discusses the four proactive steps that you can – and should – take now to help keep your organization safe. Click here to view more details: http://bit.ly/131uu2J As we all know, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated every year. At the same time, IT resources are moving outside the firewall and enterprises are distributing their applications and datafalse

Views from the Inside: Is your data safe with free cloud services? (guest post)

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Michelle Drolet

The overwhelming advantages of cloud-based file storage are not in dispute. You have an automatic backup of your files, which can be accessed on any device, at any time. Small amounts of storage are generally free, and large swathes of server space are coming down in price all the time. They absolve your business from the headache of backup management, disaster recovery, and bandwidth for instant anytime access. Convenient? Yes, most definitely. Safe and suitable for the enterprise? Well ...false

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