Lieberman Software Reveals Management Naivety About IT’s Powerful Position   London (UK), 27th July 2011: While the world is distracted with the continuing reports of phone hacking practices and other corporate data breaches, it is revealed that hundreds of organisations are now vulnerable to internal threats. According to a survey released today, conducted by Lieberman Software, 42 percent of IT staff can get unauthorised access to their organisation’s most sensitive information – including the CEO’s private documents. The failing is blamed on management’s naivety when it comes to understanding just how much privileged access their IT departments actually have.   

Theale, West Berkshire, July 25th, 2011 -- SecurEnvoy has developed a security technology that solves the problem of the session cookie, a hacking technique used by cybercriminals to hijack a users' online session that any browser can be innocently subjected to.

The Oddjob technique, says Phil Underwood Chief Security Officer, has already been used against customers of banks in Poland and the US, indicating that cybercriminals are already aware of the fraud technology's potential.

Partnership Provides Improved Countermeasures against Threats like Token Breaches, Key Logging, Social Engineering and Other Attacks

London July 25th 2011 A new generation of regulatory compliance rules mandates the use of multi-factor authentication to ensure that only authorized IT staff is able to access an organization’s powerful privileged accounts.

Trustworthy authentication is especially crucial when it comes to the identities of privileged users such as IT administrators, application developers and others who login to computers, applications and appliances with elevated, “super-user” credentials. According to SANS Institute, “the misuse of administrator privileges is the number one method for attackers to spread inside a target enterprise.”1

London, UK (21st July 2011)—At the closing of ISACA’s rigorous grandfathering program for the Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) designation, more than 10,000 professionals have demonstrated their knowledge and experience in the areas of risk and control and earned the CRISC credential.

ISACA is a nonprofit association of more than 95,000 IT professionals worldwide. The domain areas of CRISC (pronounced “see risk”) in which candidates were required to demonstrate experience included: