Pattern-based authentication “comes of age” with pin+
A system which will allow the information security industry to ditch passwords, PINs and tokens is to debut at this year’s Infosecurity Europe Show.
pin+TM utilises the power of matrix-pattern authentication (MPA) to generate one-time codes without hardware tokens or card readers, and is arguably the most exciting advance in computer security since the invention of tokens over 20 years ago.
London, UK (18th March 2011 ) –Peter Wood, a speaker at the upcoming ISACA European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference (EuroCACS) event in Manchester, said that personal e-mail services, are being increasingly used for business purposes¾a situation that places company data at great risk.
According to Wood, CEO of penetration testing specialists at First Base Technologies, the use of personal e-mail for business is expanding, creating security issues such as a lack of data leak prevention (DLP) controls and increased data leakage due to a lack of encryption at the endpoint.
Basingstoke, 18th March 2011 - Reports from Canada about the theft of a hospital hard drive containing photos and videos of patients shows how easy it is for data drives to go missing in public areas, says Origin Storage.
And, says Andy Cordial, the MD of the storage systems specialist, the drive theft incident at Misercordia Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, shows that - no matter what security policies an organisation has in place surrounding data security - hard-pressed staff will often take the easy option and ignore procedure.
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 10,500,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $13.00 per share. The common stock will begin trading on March 17, 2011 on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "CSOD."
Cornerstone OnDemand is offering 7,500,000 shares of common stock and certain selling stockholders are offering 3,000,000 shares of common stock. In addition, the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,575,000 shares at the initial public offering price. Cornerstone OnDemand will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.
London, UK 11th February 2011 - The organisers of Infosecurity Europe have welcomed news that the UK’s Internet registry is considering plans to rapidly take down those Web sites and Internet domains that it considers infected or have clear criminal/hacking intent. Infosecurity Europe will be held at Earls Court, London 19-21 April 2011 www.infosec.co.uk
Claire Sellick, Event Director with the increasingly popular information security show, which takes place in London each spring, said that infected Web sites are now a serious threat to Internet users, whether they are employees working for a major corporation or SoHo workers, working on a single PC from a home office.
