EMC Division, Juniper Partner To Stop Network Attacks; Nawaf Bitar, Art Coviello Comment
EMC Corp.’s security arm RSA and Juniper Networks have agreed to share intelligence aimed at helping clients defend networks from advanced threats and access cloud-based corporate resources via mobile devices. RSA will integrate its Live threat intelligence delivery service into Juniper’s Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, RSA said Monday. Juniper will add RSA Security [...]
RSA and TechAmerica release findings after Washington, D.C. summit on Advanced Persistent Threats from top cybersecurity leadership in government, defense industrial base, financial services, critical infrastructure and technology. The findings are derived from a forum of more than 100 of the world’s top cybersecurity leaders from government and the private sector. Participants in the APT [...]
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Security researchers have located an infected email suspected to be the culprit of the RSA SecurID hack in March. In March, unknown attackers tricked EMC staff with a legitimate-looking hiring message that contained a “backdoor,” allowing the culprits to invisibly lurk inside the company’s computer systems until they found the SecureID network login information. Allegedly the [...]
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In a test to evaluate how easy it would be for hackers to social-engineer employees and gain access to computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security found the human factor to be the weakest link in cybersecurity, Bloomberg reports. DHS staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB drives in the parking lots of government buildings [...]
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Although the Cold War between the United States and Russia ended two decades ago, a former counterintelligence specialist says a new conflict between the United States and China together with North Korea has emerged in cyberspace. McAfee Chief Security Officer Brett Wahlin, an ex-NATO counterintelligence agent, told Computerworld Australia the RSA token hack earlier this [...]
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IT company EMC today announced its acquisition of NetWitness, a security analysis corporation based in Reston, Va. NetWitness will become part of RSA, a security division of EMC. Combining the two enterprises will give security teams a deeper insight into the security outline of their organizations. NetWitness provides security teams the resources they need to [...]
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While U.S. Cyber Command’s Keith Alexander testified before Congress and advocated the Defense Department’s move to cloud computing, three companies announced a strategic alliance to address the security concerns that have impeded the progress of the commander’s proposal, C4ISR Journal reported. Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency, told a House subcommittee he believes [...]
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