The BYOD Audit/Assurance Program helps auditors provide management with an assessment of BYOD policies and procedures, identify internal control and regulatory deficiencies and identify information security control concerns that could affect the reliability, accuracy and security of the enterprise data....
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According to a Pew Research study, the vast majority of Americans keep track of their passwords using much more traditional methods – specifically, by memorizing them or by writing them down on a piece of paper. When asked about different ways they might keep track of their online passwords, fully 86% of internet users report that they keep track of them in their heads. Indeed, 65% report that memorization is the method they rely on the most (or is the only method they use) to keep track o...
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Several smartphone parking applications contain serious vulnerabilities which could allow a hacker to launch a Man in the Middle attack against their users and ultimately gain unauthorized access to the device, new research has found. Information assurance firm NCC Group tested six popular but unnamed Android apps, some with an installed base of 5-10,000 users and others with registered users of up to one million. Although the majority of the apps used TLS to encrypt sensitive data sent back to ...
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The UK has a serious skills shortage when it comes to cyber security, and the chasm between supply and demand for expertise is widening at an alarming rate. The results of a global study, conducted by job site Indeed and published on Tuesday, show that in the UK, the gap between employer demand for cyber security expertise and the number of people who have the necessary know-how is the second largest in the world....
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LightCyber, another security startup with the roots in the Israeli military, has opened its doors in the U.S. and is announcing new products and features to make its mark in the crowded field of endpoint detection and remediation....
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Coinciding with Ovum’s third BYOX World Forum, Check Point has today released its second mobile security report: The impact of mobile devices on information security. Conducted by Dimensional Research, 790 IT professionals with a security responsibility from the US, Canada, UK, Germany and Japan were queried on their BYOD experience. The overwhelming response is that BYOD is growing dramatically, security is the biggest concern, and that BYOD security incidents are costly.
The often...
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