With the onset of the hurricane season in the US Midwest and Southeast, combined with earthquakes on the East Coast, Colorado and Peru, IBM has released six tips that individuals and businesses can use to help prepare their IT environments for natural disasters and a wide range of other threats.

The Asia-Pacific web application firewall (WAF) market is poised for growth, with compound annual growth rate (CAGR) pegged at a strong 38.6 percent until 2015, up from the 28.4 percent year-on-year growth it posted in 2010.

Before diving head first into the social media pool and put yourself at risk, jump in feet first and follow these tips from Luichi Robles, Senior Country Manager, Symantec Philippines, to protect your valuable business information.

In the last few years, two new types of Internet threats have appeared -- “Man-in-the-Browser” (MITB) and “Man-in-the-Middle” (MITM) -- and use sophisticated techniques to circumvent traditional multi-factor authentication technology like one-time password (OTP) tokens to compromise user accounts and commit financial fraud. This White Paper discusses how to protect customers from these types of attacks.

As cloud computing and offshoring become mainstream, CIOs should take steps to manage inherent risks and unexpected costs during the cloud services revolution, research firm Gartner Inc. said.

A campus network face all kinds of challenges from virus threats, intellectual property rights violations and traffic management issues. Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science takes network security seriously and implemented the next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks. It has since achieved a third-party BSI ISO 27001 Information Security Management certification.

The inaugural Cyber Security Awareness Day in Singapore highlighted collective responsibility for information security.

Enabling data security means enabling data encryption at the server level. This white paper discusses how Intel Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (Intel AES-NI), a set of new instructions available in the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series, streamlines execution of AES encryption/decryption algorithms.

Many organizations provide access via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) over existing Internet connections. Security experts, however, recommend strong, two-factor authentication to protect remote access. This white paper discusses solutions that retains ease-of-use and deployment simplicity of username/password authentication.

Panda Security recently announced the results of its inaugural Kindergarten-12 Education IT Security Study, showing, among other things, that 63 percent of US schools experience malware outbreaks or unauthorized user access at least twice a year.