Author Archive for: ‘Ecommnet’
ONR Data Leak
Office Nuclear Regulation part of the UK HSE has admitted to losing sensitive plans for the Hartlepool power station. The leak has been widely reported in the UK press by the Sun and the Guardian as well as many tech sites. What baffles me is how the policies which have been in place to mandate encryption for sensitive data, are …
Consumerisation of Enterprise IT
Some interesting thoughts from the head of SAP from this year’s CES show in Las Vegas. The trend is definitely towards the use of personal devices in the Enterprise world, and we have the technology through the use of Sybase Afaria and other tools, to make that a secure and realistic proposition.
Gartner & SafeNet
In Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant report for User Authentication (ID:G00227026) places SafeNet Inc in the leading position overall.
Optical Signing Device Aids Fight Against eBanking Fraud
SafeNet launches new authentication token for retail banking transactions. SafeNet have introduced a new low cost, easy to use yet extremely sophisticated authentication token, the eToken 3500, aimed at protecting everyday on-line banking transactions. The token uses optical signing to eliminate the majority of typing of passwords and keycodes by the user and thus reduces the possibility of user errors. …
RIM to manage Apple Devices?
RIM Announce MDM Product RIM the Canadian mobile company and makers of the BlackBerry™ range of devices announced last week its intention to introduce a new mobile device management product, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion. The new product is targeted at BlackBerry users that also want to manage smartphones or tablets running Apple’s iOS or Android. RIM will have its work cut …
Digital Certificates
Digital Certificates In the past the popular notion of digital certificates was one of difficulty and complexity and best suited to very high end security systems such as military or security forces. It wasn’t the first option by any means for the average IT department. However, in today’s enterprise networks the importance of mutual authentication and the increasing demand for simple point to …
Focus on HSMs
The safe storage and protection of encryption keys and certificates is paramount to the maintenance of any encryption and authentication system. With the increasing reliance on encryption and digital certificates within many enterprises for security, the use of an HSM to store private key material is highly recommended.