Alex Goldman

The fourth annual U.S. Encryption Trends Study was released today by The Ponemon Institute. The study says that 85 percent of surveyed businesses have experienced a data breach in the past year, up from 60 percent in the 2008 study. The report was sponsored by encryption supplier PGP Corp. “A data breach is defined as […]

Citrix will officially unveil Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, Express Edition on Monday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. The Express Edition is free and incorporates Citrix StorageLink’s simplified storage management technology. “StorageLink provides one-click access to native storage devices for simplified management through storage configuration wizards that leverage existing storage array-based services and […]

Health care organizations in California have filed over 800 reports of breaches this year since new law came into the effect, according to a report in the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Senate Bill 541 and Assembly Bill 211, which passed last year, require health care organizations to begin reporting any […]

Any company that has had 33 consecutive quarters of revenue growth has to be doing right. For IQNavigator and John Raeder, Jr., its president and CEO, that would be offering software as a service, or SaaS (define). The company has offered a SaaS platform for private markets (a concept not unlike what Ariba was designed […]

A State Department contractor has been slapped with a fine after pleading guilty to looking at the passports of more than 50 celebrities — including President Obama’s, then a U.S. senator — by using the government’s Passport Information Electronic Records System (PIERS). The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week fined Gerald […]

IBM today announced Magen — short for “Masking Gateway for Enterprise” — a proof-of-concept technology that scrambles sensitive data on PC screens without altering the underlying information. The product was developed in IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Haifa research lab in Israel and required new concepts in handling images. “It is a very complex notion: How to […]

A whopping 70 percent of enterprises in the UK have suffered data breaches in the past year, according to new findings from the Ponemon Institute. In its 2009 annual survey of UK enterprise encryption trends, sponsored by PGP Corporation, Ponemon said that it also found that 12 percent suffered five or more data breaches during […]

Today, Verizon Business announced the Verizon Application Security Program, aimed to help organizations better prioritize their security efforts in a time of increasing and varied threats. Earlier this year, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report found that data taken from servers accounted for 94 percent of all records lost in breaches that Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) RISK […]

Key Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea have been under attack for several days according to reports that indicate government, financial, and media sites are being targeted. Although there’s been speculation that North Korea was the culprit, perhaps because of that nation’s continued belligerent behavior, there was no proof. Today, North Korea sentenced […]

Consultant Nicholas Givotovsky died this week, aged 44, from an accident involving a lawn mower. He is survived by his wife and two children. I met Nicholas Givotovsky at David Isenberg’s Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference and through Isabel Walcott, a consultant who helped F2C generate publicity and helped Givotovsky network. I last spoke to […]

While many reports tout Software as a Service (SaaS) as being better, faster, and cheaper than licensed software, the actual experience is less rosy — at least according to a new study by industry research firm Gartner. “Many customers are underwhelmed by their current experience of it and sense that SaaS is not quite the […]

The security flaws in Social Security numbers have been known for some time, but what was theory has been proven to be fact as researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that publicly available data could be used to obtain about 8.5 percent of all social security numbers of people born between 1989 and 2003. […]