The level of application security threats is rising, but the level of response is not. "That's a serious disconnect," says Jeff Williams, chair of the OWASP Foundation.
Emerging payments technologies, such as tokenization, are already being deployed in the marketplace, but standardization, as it relates to the security of some of these emerging solutions, is lacking.
C. Warren Axelrod is a veteran banking/security executive and thought-leader, and in an exclusive interview at the RSA Conference 2010 he discusses top security trends and threats, including:
Insider fraud;
Application security;
Cloud computing.
Axelrod is currently executive advisor for the Financial...
Application security is rapidly becoming the next hot focus area for information security professionals.
Momentum began to build in 2008, when Information Security Media Group's (ISMG) Application Security Survey showed that 90% of respondents saw application security as somewhat or a significant part of their...
Know what scares security expert John Pescatore the most? The image of a remote employee sitting a home office or public setting, plugging into an unsecured network, accessing critical data via a personal laptop or PDA.
Organizations have never had so many security risks in so many remote locations, says Pescatore,...
There's something new in the air that retailers, especially the directors of information technology (IT) operations at the store, are starting to research and implement called "application whitelisting". This technology is being presented as the panacea for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and is being welcomed...
In recent years, the hacking community has shifted its efforts toward a new frontier: the application layer. With most companies spending thousands, if not millions, of dollars securing the perimeter with network firewalls, intrusion prevent systems, and other devices, hackers have realized the lowest hanging fruit...
Sahba Kazerooni is a senior security consultant with Security Compass, a security consulting and training firm specializing in application security based in New Jersey. He is also an internationally-renowned speaker on security topics, and has provided presentations at security conferences around the world, including...
Interview with Cyber Crime Expert Eric Fiterman
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their...
Since January 2005, over 167 million credit card numbers have been exposed due to security breaches. Many of the most damaging breaches were the result of hackers exploiting flaws in software. With the PCI Security Standard Council's regulations recently expanding to include specific mandates to assess software for...
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