Harris Corporation has named Mike Deloney vice president and general manager of Department of Defense Programs for its IT services business. Since joining Harris in 2009, Deloney has served as vice president of Harris IT Services’ Air Force Programs. He succeeds John Heller, who was named president of Harris IT Services earlier this month. In [...]
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Misconfigured networks are the easiest exploit for most attackers, according to a survey published earlier this week. Tufin Technologies’ “Hacking Habits” surveyed attendees of last month’s DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, Nev. The report found that among those hackers who search for vulnerabilities, 73 percent come across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of [...]
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While most IT security investment decisions are made without considering the broader industry, three researchers at the University of Alberta say this might not be wise. During the Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010), Bora Kolfal, Raymond Patterson and Lisa Yeo presented a paper titled “Market Impact on IT Security Spending,” [...]
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Of 242 IT professionals surveyed who work for companies with 1,000 to 5,000+ employees, 1 in 10 admitted that they or a colleague had cheated to pass an audit, according to a survey conducted by Tufin Technologies. However, compared to survey results from 2009, the number of admitted cheaters has been cut in half. The [...]
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The domestic British intelligence agency MI5 is firing older employees for not having up-to-date IT skills and replacing the jokingly called James Bond Generation of elderly spies with new intelligence officers who have better command of new technologies, according to the Daily Telegraph. Most of MI5′s counterterrorism work focuses on Islamic extremists, many of whom [...]
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