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Tackling data centre challenges
Multinational corporations are coming under increased pressure to develop consistent global asset management and disposal policies and procedures, as Dr Anand Narasimhan, managing director, Asset Recovery Services EU & India, Sims Recycling Solutions, explains
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Masterclass
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The Data Breach Blindspot
How do you control data breaches that threat systems miss (or take too long to find)? Here, Adam Boone, chief marketing officer at Certes Networks, offers his insights
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Fighting back against malware
How do you best protect your systems from malware infiltration and infection? Malwarebytes offers some expert insights
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Product Review
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COMPUTING SECURITY AWARDS
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Auditing / Reporting Solution of the Year
WINNER: Fortinet - FortiAnalyzer
RUNNER UP: Assuria – CyberSense
All of the 2015 Awards results can be seen by going to:
www.computingsecurityawards.co.uk
Please note: the winning products and services will not necessarily be the only solutions or the newest solutions available from the respective suppliers. You should contact these suppliers directly to learn more about what they can offer.
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How to avoid a tangled Web
Web 2.0 aids enterprises in conducting business, but also introduces many damaging risks. Trend Micro offers its insights into Web application vulnerabilities and how to avoid these
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Welcome to the February 2016 issue of the Computing Security Newsletter
So, HSBC is launching voice recognition and touch ID services to protect customers. It signals what could be the beginning of the end for passwords across the banking sector – and, if it is a success, then others are bound to follow.
From this summer, around 15 million HSBC and First Direct customers now using telephone banking and the mobile app can choose to access their accounts with a voice and fingerprint verification system. HSBC claims its biometric home security system is safer than current log-ins where clients can forget passwords – and leave themselves open to cyber crooks using the same password across a variety of accounts.
“The launch of voice and touch ID makes it even quicker and easier for customers to access their bank account, using the most secure form of password technology – the body,” commented Francesca McDonagh, HSBC UK’s head of retail banking and wealth management.
According to Simon Moffatt, director Advanced Customer Engineering, ForgeRock: “The age of the username and password, whilst still incredibly popular, is dead from a security perspective. Biometrics are an incremental step in removing the risks associated with password-based authentication, but we also need to start leveraging things such as trusted device management and continuous security checking.
“For example, tying trusted previously registered devices to individuals and logins helps to reduce the risks associated with credential theft,” he adds. “Couple with that the use of continual security – by noticing differences in request location for example over a short of period – can all help to provide a more incremental and risk focused approach to identity management and sign in services.”
How soon biometrics might become mainstream across all business sectors is now the big question, especially as cyber attacks continue to hit unprecedented levels.
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Brian Wall, Editor
Computing Security
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