Tech CenterInsider Threat Commentary
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Safeguarding Your Data Against The Two-Bit Ne'er-Do-Well
April 17, 2013 A real-life data breach incident underscores the importance of employing even the most basic levels of security protection
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How Well Do You Know Your Data?
January 09, 2013 The more you know about your data, the more effectively you can protect it
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All Security Technologies Are Not Data Loss Prevention
November 15, 2012 While security technologies may share the common goal of protecting an organization's sensitive data, not all can -- or should -- be called data loss prevention
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Data Loss Prevention: What's The Use?
July 13, 2012 Why deploy data loss prevention technologies if there are ways to circumvent the system?
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Don't Blame Me, I'm Just An Employee
June 12, 2012 If you're looking for a cure for mishandling of sensitive data, then look no further than your own management team
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Take Off The Data Security Blinders
December 20, 2011 By Rich Mogull
You can't protect what you can't see. Use these tools to learn how and where your data is at risk
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It's Time to Dump The 'Insider Threat'
November 30, 2011 By Rich Mogull
Blaming the "insider threat" merely hides your real security risks
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Taming the Beast: Preventing/Detecting Insider Threat
November 27, 2010 By Eric Cole
While many companies deal with the problem of insider threat, there are some practical things that can be done to both prevent and detect insider threat. Always remember, prevention is ideal but detection is a must.
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IRS virus demonstrates stupidity is rampant
September 29, 2009 The proliferation of the current IRS virus demonstrates stupidity is rampant on the Internet.
Dark Reading Reports
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Ten Steps To Success In Data Loss Prevention
Don't let anyone tell you that implementing a DLP system is easy. It takes time, patience and diplomacy to ensure that technical requirements, security policy and business needs are balanced. In this Dark Reading report, we recommend the 10 steps that must be taken to keep company data safe - and business managers and users happy and productive.
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Securing the Mobile User
The complexity of managing mobile devices should get easier going forward, but that's not the case right now. As traditional laptop PCs continue to die a slow death, most IT departments will be forced to alter the way they approach client management. Despite the growing popularity and acceptance of the bring-your-own-device - or BYOD - movement, there are a number of things working against IT. Fortunately, there are also a number of tools, some of them free, that security professionals can use along with strong policy and best practices to close the enterprise mobile security gap.
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Making Insiders Foot Soldiers In Enterprise Security
Insider threat-borne attacks remain the minority of data breaches but tend to inflict the most damage - especially when it comes to intellectual property theft. In this retrospective of recent Dark Reading coverage, we look at the hot trends and tips on how to flip the equation on the insider threat.
- Writing and Enforcing an Effective Employee Security Policy
- Five Steps To Protecting Intellectual Property
- Monitoring and Controlling Privileged User Access
- How to Prevent an Illicit Data Dump
- Email and Data Loss
- An Insider Threat Reality check
- Compliance From the Inside Out: Are Your Insider Threat Controls In Place?
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In This Issue
- Endpoint Security: End user security requires layers of tools and training as employees use more devices and apps.
- Security Isn't A Piece Of Cake: It's time we rethink the conventional wisdom about security layering.
- BYOD Is Here To Stay: Trying to keep employees' devices off the network is futile.