As our society mobilises and more individuals use smart devices to access corporate data, cyber criminals are developing more sophisticated …
IE9 best at protecting against drive-by downloads: NSS Labs
Internet Explorer is better at defending against drive-by downloads than competitors’ browsers and the contest isn’t even close, according to …
Champions of value addition 2011
The combination of global economic changes and new technology life cycles has made global IT vendors more accountable for the …
Fabrics of our life
It is incredible how connected our lives are today. Increasingly sophisticated wireless devices are becoming common every day tools leading …
Explaining standards
The government of Abu Dhabi has realised their increased dependence on information and information processing systems and therewith the importance …
PCI group outlines technology to conceal sensitive account information
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council recently published guidelines aimed at helping merchants and others processing payment cards make …
US agency releases cyber-education plan
The U.S. government will work to develop an “unrivaled” cybersecurity workforce and broaden the nation’s pool of skilled cyberworkers under …
Study finds Android app-makers careless with some data
A lot of the software written for Google’s Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and …
ESET announces special offer for business users
ESET Middle East, IT Security vendor, announced a special offer for organisations looking to secure their networks in the Middle …
Norton reveals smartphones threats
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users at home or at work. …
ComGuard partner AirTight gets Gartner positive
ComGuard, a value added distributor for IT security solutions in the Middle East region announced that Gartner has rated AirTight …
30% companies feel cyber-targeted
Another finding has emerged from the Global IT Security Risks survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with global research …
Banking and finance sector can no longer ignore social media: Khoury
With the growing adoption of smartphones and the simultaneous surge in Internet use across the globe, banking and finance institutions …
CIOs must embrace mobility or be swept aside: IDC
CIOs in the Asia Pacific face being “swept aside” if they ignore mobility as an issue in the enterprise, IDC …
Intel gives Ultrabooks a $300M investment boost
Intel said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and …
Private clouds: Storage architectures are key to maximising efficiencies
Today, enterprises across the world are crafting cloud strategies and starting to invest in private clouds to take advantage of …
Companies lose millions from missing memory sticks, states study
While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company’s bottom …
Visa pushes merchants to adopt chip-based payments
Visa today announced plans that will let qualifying merchants in the U.S. eliminate the need to annually validate their compliance …
VMware preparing DLP features for vShield
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual …
A class apart
The American University of Sharjah is making calculated investments in the latest that technology has to offer to make its …