Today we released our third annual Virtual Criminology Report, which has become an internationally respected benchmark for what’s happening in the world of cybercrime. In addition to working with our team of experts at Avert Labs, for this year’s report we consulted with more than a dozen specialists from around the world at top institutions [...]

Your identity is priceless, however, cybercriminals are looking to cash in on acquiring your personal information this holiday season. Earlier this week, Cyber Monday kicked off the holiday shopping season and sales rose 26 percent compared to the same day last year, reaching $733 million.
Although bargain shopping online for the best deal on a plasma [...]

With today’s close of our SafeBoot acquisition, we’ve officially launched a new business unit – Data Protection. This unit, headed by Gerhard Watzinger, is focused on mobile data protection, an area of critical importance and growing concern for our enterprise customers today, and something that we expect consumers and small businesses to be paying more [...]

At this week’s meeting of the Corporate Community Relations Consortium, the topic focused on challenges and best practices for developing international programs for community involvement. One specific challenge faced by those expanding globally is balancing the emerging best practice of tying your community engagement initiatives to your company’s core competencies (e.g., security and online safety [...]

This morning I was a guest host of CNBC’s “The Call,” which offers analysis and debate on what’s happening in the market. In addition to discussing security threats facing consumers and businesses this holiday shopping season, I had the chance to weigh in on some interesting issues outside of the security industry, most notably the [...]

Web 2.0 applications are springing up everywhere in the enterprise. However, issues including privacy, anonymity, productivity loss, sensitive data breaches and technology vulnerabilities make these applications a security vulnerability that IT managers need to take seriously. As Andrew Jaquith wrote on SecurityMetrics.org “..the Web 2.0 architectural style makes it easier and faster to hose yourself [...]

You spent your entire security budget on technologies for the perimeter and the endpoint. You designed the perfect security architecture that isolates critical business function infrastructure and makes it impervious to attack. You implemented an IT management framework to optimize your environment, yet somehow the bad guys got away with the crown jewels of your [...]