News that the US Department of Homeland Security has identified the weak link in IT security is the human element comes as no surprise to Idappcom, the data traffic analysis and security specialist.

 

According to Ray Bryant, the firm's CEO, after DOHS staff quietly dropped data disks and USB sticks in the car parks of government agency and allied company buildings, they found 60 per cent of them were inserted into the company/agency's computer systems.

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 Rolling Meadows, IL, USA (27 June 2011)—Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, chief audit executive (CAE) at Smals in Belgium, was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress:  INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today.

 Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems auditing and control, provides education and training, and administers the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) designations. Additionally, ISACA developed and continually updates COBIT, the internationally accepted framework for governance of enterprise IT.

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 Rolling Meadows, IL, USA (27 June 2011)—Christos K. Dimitriadis, CISA, CISM, head of information security of INTRALOT S.A., Athens, Greece, was reelected international vice president of ISACA—a nonprofit association serving more than 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress:  INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today.

 Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems auditing and control, provides education and training, and administers the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) designations. Additionally, ISACA publishes COBIT, the internationally accepted framework for governance of enterprise IT.

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Trovus creates new role to rapidly develop its Strategic Advisory services for the web intelligence delivered by its market-leading solution  

London, UK - Trovus, the award-winning and leading provider in specialist intelligence services that build profiles of organisations visiting websites, today announced the appointment of Fanni Vig as New Business Development Director. Vig will drive Trovus’s business in new and existing markets, focusing on developing strategic projects with customers. In this newly created role Vig will advise existing customers, source new business leads and provide an increasingly structured approach to business growth for Trovus.   

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 More than 100 Banks Have Successfully Deployed Trusteer’s Secure Web Access Services  

 London, 5th May, 2011 – Trusteer, the leading provider of secure web access services, today announced that it was positioned by Gartner Inc. as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection report for 2011, published April 19, 2011 by analyst Avivah Litan.

According to the Gartner report, “Four new vendors in the Gartner Web fraud detection Magic Quadrant are challenging the incumbents by selling solutions that are often easier to implement and directly tackle cyberattacks, such as zero-day exploits and trojans that raid business accounts…

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