The growth of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, in which employees use their personal devices in the workplace, is proving to be a huge headache for IT. Often underfunded, understaffed and ...

According to security vendor Symantec, 48% of enterprises increased their use of encryption over the past two years. This sharp increase mirrors the increase in data migration to the cloud. If your ...

Technological advances are making adoption of network and data encryption more practical than ever, spurring its use in enterprises. Sixty-six percent of respondents to aPonemon Institute survey said ...

Data loss is bad enough, but having that data fall into someone else's hands -- especially if they happen to be the wrong hands -- can be disastrous. While in an ideal we shouldn't be losing data in ...

I once had the pleasure of visiting merry old London, England, attending the InfoSecurity Europe conference. About 12,000 people from all around the globe showed up for the 3-day affair and, as you ...

Policies, processes and a "corporate ethos" of care of data are more important in securing sensitive information than using encryption technology. Encryption has been back in the spotlight following ...

Last week I published two research reports on the hottest topic in PCI: Tokenization and Transaction Encryption. Part 1 was an introduction into the topic and Part 2 provided some action items for ...

This is Null Byte's fourth part in a series about fully securing our computers (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). In our last Null Byte, we went over how to encrypt an entire operating system to protect our ...