Mobile computing devices used to be the challenge for many enterprises. IT departments found themselves tugged in several different directions at once. Employees insisted on using their tablets and smartphones to access company applications, while security officers threw up their hands in horror at the idea of unknown and uncontrollable devices having a way in…
The world is a dangerous place and a simple firewall just won’t cut it when it comes to this generations highly advanced weaponry, the weapon of knowledge, the knowledge you have turned against you. Warfare is no longer only on the battlefield but on the Internet where anyone with some knowledge of hacking becomes a…
They last a lifetime and they never change. Fingerprints, irises and even gaits (as in walking) are immutable, if you discount the use of surgery. That is what makes them such reliable identifiers and the basis of different biometric security systems. From science fiction and spy films, we now have smartphones (iPhones for example) that…
If the business and IT environment fluctuates so much, why then is it still important to do penetration testing?
For many years we’ve been hyped with the cloud generation of computing with the likes of giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, VMware and Oracle to name a few in the ring. But moving entirely to the cloud has some considerations to take into account and a Cloud Risk Assessment is to be conducted to analyse…
Every once in a while it’s good to take stock of a situation. A projected 1.25 billion Android users for 2015 (according to Gartner) is such a situation. Either your organisation is already an Android shop or it is likely to become one in the near future. A plethora of software apps for the Android…