IT Trends and challenges:

World is becoming Instrumental, Interconnected and Intelligent. IT security teams in enterprises are faced with rapidly mutating threats at every possible point of entry. This is fuelled by the fast evolution of threat landscape and sea of changes in network and security architecture.

• Changing network paradigm
• Network has taken center stage – Wired or wire-free
• Excitement starts from data center
• BIG data – A true…

A generic definition of a crime would be an act that is in violation of the applicable laws. A crime / criminal offense may essentially hurt an individual or the community (city or a nation) at large. This concept has now been taken to the next level with rising popularity of cybercrimes. In recent years, there are several analyst reports on the increasing trends of cybercrimes. Of late; several interchangeable terms for cyber crimes such as, computer crime, cyber fraud, internet crime,…

Today enterprises live in a world where natural or man made disasters can crumble a business to its knees. It is therefore critically important for these enterprises to recognise the fact that disasters are real and happen and it is essential they have a structured programme to protect the information from external and internal threats and disasters.

 Common Disasters:

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At a recent industry event discussing security, a question was rasised as to who needs to take ownership of security issues, the comment was made that it needs to be "someone senior enough to care, but junior enough to know what they are talking about"

This summarises a major issue in the cyber security industry. Security is a deeply complex issue, balancing threat, risk, business objectives, technology, process and people.

Senior business people tend to know about…

We use security products to secure our systems and our businesses. However, the very security products we use, can themselves have vulnerabilities which can leave us susceptible to attacks. We conducted a study recently to understand the vulnerability trends in security products.Read further to know more on what we discovered this time around.

How was the research conducted?

We started off with some survey on the internet to find something closely related to…

This is a fundamental principle of the data privacy jurisprudence that the organization cannot disclose personal information without having prior consent of the data subject unless it is required by law. Global data privacy laws imbibed this principle, and require the organizations, having data subject’s consent, to implement tools and techniques those assist in minimum disclosure of information only on need to know basis. Compliance with such global data privacy laws is significant for both…

The Healthcare BPO market from US in areas such as medical billing/coding, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) maintenance, medical transcription and radiology services is growing at 18% annually. The US healthcare outsourcing market is estimated to be a $100 billion worth opportunity waiting to be tapped and Indian IT companies irrespective of size have been able to take advantage. Several big and medium size companies are developing domain expertise in the healthcare market and are targeting…

Gone are the days when Open Source software (OSS) was only being used in educational institutions like universities, research organizations etc. Today most organizations use open source for a variety of reasons such as accelerating time-to-Market, reducing cost of development, dynamic integration etc. There are many software development organizations that work closely with their customers to determine open source strategy before making them a part of product / application development. By…

Writing not only functional but secure applications is not a new concept or idea that has taken the Industry by storm. However, many Government and Commercial Organizations are still not adhering to or requiring their Organizations to adopt, implement, and build in security into the Systems Development Life Cycle process. Instead, Organizations are continuing to focus on the functional aspects of software, only to be surprised when a weakness or vulnerability in the…

There is a common misconception that cyber criminals and hacktivists only target large enterprises to reap a bumper. The reality is actually very different, recently published surveys reveal that

• 84% of Small and Medium Businesses had a security breach in the last year
• 48% of them suffered staff related (internal employees) breaches

What is evident from these reports are that SMEs are spending less time on assessing and understanding their security…