Hackers Winning Bank Authentication Battle

Security measures such as the use of one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication — considered among the most robust forms of IT defenses — are no longer enough to protect online banking systems against fraud, a Gartner report warns. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Gartner's Pescatore: Cybersecurity Complacency Everywhere

ZDNet’s Larry Dignan has an interesting report on Gartner security guru John Pescatore providing his 2010 cyberthreat assessment, noting that not a lot has changed — other than the complacency levels of companies that are supposed to be protecting your data...

Gartner Sees Better Days Ahead For Security Budgets

From SearchSecurity.com Robert Westervelt The dismal economy has put the brakes on a lot of security projects, but the need to maintain the basics and automate some security functions has fueled interest in managed security services and some specific security areas, according to analysts at Gartn...

Should Microsoft be in the security business?

Gartner security analyst Neil MacDonald thinks there are five levels to the discussion gartner.com about whether Microsoft should be in the security business. They include secure coding obviously, secure functionality in the platform at no cost of course, add-on security products at a fee maybe a...

Social engineering information security against the new field-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Information security vulnerabilities are widespread, any one system are a potential security risk. In recent years, the use of means of social engineering, break through the information security defensive measures of an event, has shown a rise even spread of the trend, become the information...