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  • The age of information highway robbery

    Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a widespread problem in the iGaming industry with hackers betting that they can make money from online gambling merchants by threatening to take down their primary revenue source, the gambling website. A recent report of a British Internet bookmaker paying £20,000 to online extortionists has brought the issue to the forefront but this is not an isolated incident.

  • How financial institutions can overcome the cloud security barrier

    In financial services, with the hundreds of complex regulations that apply to data, private cloud adoption is still more common than the public cloud to date. However, that is changing quickly.

  • A guide to negotiating and assuring cloud services

    How can an organization safely adopt cloud services to gain the benefits they provide? The easy availability of cloud services has sometimes led to line of business managers bypassing the normal procurement processes to obtain cloud services directly without any consideration of the governance and risks involved.

  • A closer look at Hack In The Box 2013 Amsterdam

    Here's a look at Hack In The Box 2013 Amsterdam, that took place at the Okura Hotel on April 10-11.

  • TDoS: The latest wave of Denial of Service attacks

    A new class of attack targeting call centers, called telephony denial of service (or TDoS), have started appearing by the dozens.

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Is it time to professionalize information security?

Posted on 23 May 2013.  |  The issue of whether or not information security professionals should be licensed to practice has already been the topic of many a passionate debate.


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