As per the ruling of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its program—which was once hidden from the public eye—of systematically collecting bulk records of Americans’ domestic phone calls. Naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union said that it would raise the issue to the United States Court of Appeals […]
Years after Edward Snowden exposed the U.S. government’s online surveillance efforts, people have been clamoring for increased privacy. And to answer that call, developers have taken on the challenge of improving internet security. But despite the appeal for it and developers providing users with better options, consumers just aren’t biting. Not even the simplest of […]
Over the past few years, there have been a number of security breaches in financial services enterprises. And because of these, financial companies now face larger scrutiny in terms of the security of their respective networks. As they work to beef up their defenses and rebuild the fragmented trust of their customers, they’re now under […]
Just this June, Imation has announced the release of the high-security and high-performance IronKey H350. It’s the only USB 3.0 hard drive currently available in the market to achieve FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation, meeting the most stringent 256-bit encryption requirements mandated for government agencies, defense contractors, financial services, and healthcare. The aforementioned agencies and […]
Earlier this year, the release for the IronKey eUSB for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) was announced. This was very welcome news, as it allowed administrators to deploy and manage IronKey encrypted devices from a single console. Now, even better news has arrived: the IronKey eUSB for McAfee ePO is now officially certified by McAfee Security […]
On its Vendor Q&A series, Channelnomics interviews the industry’s premier IT channel executives. Eric Krauss, IronKey’s director of channel sales and business development, recently took the hot seat and answered some really interesting questions. Below are excerpts from the interview. On how IronKey’s channel program differs from the competition and what it can offer to […]
This week we learn an important lesson: Preventing a network breach is just as important as ensuring confidential internal documents are kept confidential. Gift cards valued at over $1 million have been canceled after a Woolworths staffer accidentally sent details of the cards to more than 1,000 people. Read more on this story here.
An Insurance Council study reveals most people do not believe New Zealand businesses are well prepared for hacking and keeping data secure. About 750 people were interviewed nationwide and just 21% of respondents were confident businesses were prepared. Insurance Council chief executive Tim Grafton estimated cyber-related crimes cost New Zealand more than $625 million a […]
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will place members within Interpol, Europol, and Pittsburgh’s National Centre of Cyber Training Alliance to help fight against cybercrime. The agency’s manager of Cyber Crime Operations, High Tech Crime Operations, commander Glen McEwan said the move follows Australia’s agreement to share certain information with international crime-fighting agencies to crack down […]
Sometimes resellers know best, as Imation’s Sven Radavics now knows. It was resellers who changed the way Imation looked at its IronKey Windows To Go devices as complementary rather than competitive to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). “When we started down this path and committed to the Windows To Go market and Microsoft technology, we spent […]
