Privacy

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The U.S. government released a warning about the increasing risk of cyber attacks targeting critical energy corporations. While the majority of previous attacks have involved stealing trade secrets, the newest threats appear to be motivated by the intention to shut down industrial machinery and energy delivery.[read more]

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One of the most discussed concerns surrounding big data today is privacy. While many powerful analytics are possible with the detailed data that is now collected on each of us, the sensitive nature of much of that data requires rethinking data practices and applications.[read more]

Facebook & big data analytics

Facebook has massive data analytics capabilities and it has a lot of data - big data. It has our personal details, our likes, our updates, our pictures and videos. However, my big question here is: are they overstepping the mark by exploiting this (even very personal) data?[read more]

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Technological progress has always led to heated debates about the threats a new technology would pose for society and humanity. Entering the era of big data, the fear is loss of privacy. There are three different parties we can look at in taking care of that: Governments, Organisations and Consumers.[read more]

big data security

Today's security systems still have long ways to go before being fully integrated in true Big Data sense. Security professionals need to be able to get increasing value from the data they already collect and analyze, on top of the data they still are not getting. Here are some key considerations.[read more]

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SAP recently announced its new Fraud Management analytic applications. It’s a good example of the type of business process revolution that’s possible when companies can execute complex analytics on big data sets using in-memory and other advanced processing techniques.[read more]

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While no records were broken when it comes to number of health records disclosed per data breach, the top HIPAA breaches of last year still come with some hard lessons learned about technical and physical security. Protect your healthcare organization from suffering the same fate.[read more]

intelligence-driven marketing

In the "information economy," data is created at an unbelievable pace, but to make some reasonable business use of that data is challenging. Businesses need to systematically move from "big data" to "smart data", or data in the right business context, delivered to the right person at the right time.[read more]

mobile technology

Apple’s acquisition of WiFiSlam is getting a lot of attention this week. In a nutshell, WiFiSlam specializes in a technology that allows mobile apps to pinpoint users’ locations through the interaction between their smartphones and standard wifi signals – no GPS need apply.[read more]

BYOD

While the sub-market spawned by BYOD is flourishing with multi-platform BYOD services, solutions, applications and everything else that a new phenomenon might elicit, for some, especially IT administrators and the like, the practice is simply little more than a pain in the &$@#*.[read more]

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The Bashas’ supermarket chain is attesting that they were PCI-compliant at the time of their recent data breach. This further stresses the point that compliance is not a checkmark to attain, but a constantly maintained and revised process of risk assessments and mitigation efforts.[read more]

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Most drivers are unaware that event data recorders (EDR) are likely installed in their automobile. These recorders track driving data such as air bag deployment, acceleration and deceleration, engine speed and more. However, the answer to "Who owns this data?" is still up for debate.[read more]

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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier are authors of the just-published book Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. It is an excellent introduction for general audiences to what has become a topic of conversation everywhere.[read more]

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In 2010 Genesco’s computer system was breached, potentially leaving customer credit card information vulnerable. Due to this data breach, Visa charged Genesco with over $13 million in fines for noncompliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS).[read more]

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The latest report from the Ponemon Institute sought to analyze trends in cloud computing security among organizations that use SaaS and IaaS. It found that only 43 percent of organizations audit or assess cloud computing resources before deployment.[read more]