Exciting showcases at CeBIT demonstrate that the Internet of Things encompasses all areas of life. According to expert opinion, the largest potential market slumbers in factories. Refrigerators that report if you are out of milk. Washing machines that order more washing powder from Amazon. The car that picks up its driver right on time from their front door. Thanks to examples like these, the Internet of Things has received a great deal of media attention. Many are astounded; some remain unconvinced. But everyone has had some contact with the IoT.…

The consoles are increasingly popular as a way of secretly communicating, according to officials The attacks in Paris may have been planned using a PlayStation 4, according to reports. The games console is being increasingly used as a way to chat secretly. And at least one PlayStation 4 was reportedly seized during a huge night of raids across Belgium and France. Last week, Belgium’s foreign affairs minister warned that the PlayStation 4 was being increasingly used and was very difficult to track. “The thing that keeps me awake at night is the guy…

On an average day, employees routinely copy sensitive production data into non-production environments. Those copies are often shared with other employees creating copies of copies. As the number of copies increase so does the security risk. For example copies are created for development and testing so that administrators can test upgrades, patches and fixes. Copies are created for analytics. Copies are created for numerous reasons to keep an organization running. By copying sensitive data, employees unwarily breach information. At the same time, cyber criminals are well aware that copies of…

Data decays. That nice accurate database at the root of your CRM system will inevitably become corrupt and inaccurate over time. Incorrect entries are made, customers drop off, people change jobs or leave, and companies merge or go out of business. Slowly but surely your database becomes dirty, costing your people time and effort and your company lost opportunities. To remain useful, your data file needs to be cleaned regularly to eliminate errors, duplication and outdated information. Ideally you do this as part of day to day operations. Less, ideally,…

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection helps companies uncover, prioritize and remediate advanced threats across their control points – fast Mountain View, Calif. – October – Symantec Corp. , the global leader in cyber security, today introduced Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the first solution that can detect and remediate advanced threats across control points, from a single console with just a click, all with no new endpoint agents to deploy. Advanced threats, such as ransomware, remote access trojans, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero day attacks, are on the rise and security professionals can…

Though virtualization has become the new normal for businesses of all sizes, physical server infrastructures are still quite widespread. Do you think that the companies using traditional, physical server networks are wasting money? This post will show you why this is exactly the case! But before reading I suggest to watch this educative video. Let’s start with what we used to have when physical servers were the normal platform of choice. The architecture of a physical server is quite plain. Each server has its own hardware: Memory, network, processing and…