Security

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News – has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on …

AUSTIN, Texas – Speaking at this week’s IEEE GlobeCom expo in Austin, AT&T Chief Security Officer Edward Amoroso proposed that enterprise cloud security could potentially be based on the same network architecture used by an infamous piece of malware. Amoroso …

In the ongoing battle against cyber attacks and espionage, Deutsche Telekom’s business customer unit, T-Systems, is joining with the Silicon Valley firm FireEye to offer security-as-a-service to European organizations. According to a FireEye study, many European firms are not able to quickly respond …

Slush 2014 took place this week in Helsinki, Finland. Started in 2008 with only around 150 attendees, this year’s attendee count clocked in at just over 14,000 showing amazing growth. The atmosphere was a mix of nightclub and conference, with …

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The annual look at technology hiring trends by research firm Robert Half Technology concludes that mobile, big data and network security are driving businesses trends now, and will shape 2015 hiring trends in the tech fields. “The supply of highly …

Today’s mobile workers are often more than willing to use personal devices to get work done, and that can mean significant savings for their employers. Not only can IT spending on devices go down, but productivity can go up. The …

Andrus Ansip, the candidate to lead the European Union’s Digital Internal Market, is willing to suspend the safe harbor agreement with the U.S. if Europe’s security concerns are not addressed. The safe harbor agreement regulates the transfer of Europeans’ personal data to the U.S. …

Vladimir Putin wants to take Russia off the global Internet in case of an emergency, like war or anti-government protests, according to recent reports — reports which, of course, the Kremlin denies. It’s easy to dismiss this move as the madness of …

Cyber war is not the stuff of science fiction any more. More than disruptive hacks and information theft, cyber attacks are now a significant part of the conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. At a press conference in Wales last week, …

When President Obama visited Estonia last week to deliver a warning to Russia, he also drew the spotlight to one of the most connected countries in the world. Estonia was freed from Soviet rule in 1991 and the tiny Baltic country …

The hacker nicknamed “NerveGas,” also known as the forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, claims to have identified back doors, attack points and surveillance mechanisms running on all Apple iOS devices. Zdziarski, who was a development team member on many of the early …

Essence has been around for 20 years providing professional-graded security solutions. While not the first type of company that comes to mind when thinking about home care solutions, they have over 10 million products deployed and are focusing on bringing …

While IoT creates process improvements across all industries and facets of life, it increases the need for mobile security.

It seems the telecom industry does this on a regular basis. We come up with an idea, and we talk about if for years and it still seems to be some unreachable goal in the future. Then we change the …

Why don’t consumers wholeheartedly embrace the ease and convenience of mobile payments? Quite simply, they are worried about the security risk. That’s understandable, given that trust in the security of personal

Cyber-attacks continue to become more innovative and sophisticated. Unfortunately, while organizations are developing new security mechanisms, cyber-criminals are cultivating new techniques to circumvent them.

Wireless connections come with inherent risks. Here’s the lowdown on securing both types of networks.

The concept of service provider security is undergoing a significant shift due to changes in several key areas: business, technology and the profile of the attacker.

Cisco is opening up its IP Cameras platform for safety and security applications in order to allow customers to create their own applications that integrate the company’s security cameras and analytics. In an Internet roundtable on Tuesday, Cisco and some …

Telecoms operators have historically proven they are adept at protecting their networks. As security risks increase in scope and complexity over time, the telecommunications industry