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Your Net Worth Is Online – And Less Safe Than Ever

The Black Hat USA 2013 conference, which kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, brings together the  brightest minds in IT security  each year — those who are responsible for perpetrating and protecting against the latest hacks and vulnerabilities. And not a second too soon, since every week seems to usher in another security catastrophe. This week’s shocker  was the outing of a hole in mobile device SIM cards, by Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin

This Week’s Five: Managed Service Providers – Reality Check!

This Week’s Five  is a weekly column of five interesting reads from all over the web, with a different topic each week. This week, we’ll try to find out  how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are an important part of the burgeoning IT management space . Why does an enterprise hire an MSP? Cost-saving is the major reason, but other key benefits like using professional talent, more concentration on their core job, and reduction of risk and hassles, are in fact more critical to the success of their long-term strategies

IT outsourcing: When outsiders become insiders, how do you ensure information security?

Organizations outsource a part or whole of their IT services to third-party service providers for various reasons, such as cost savings, leveraging outside expertise, need to meet business demands quickly, and other critical aspects. Usually, tasks such as software development, network management, customer support, and data center management are outsourced

Security Gaffes You Might Have Missed So Far This Year

If you can believe it, 2013 is already halfway over. With summer here, businesses everywhere are feeling the heat in their IT organizations – as they fight a growing array of security concerns, threatening their profitability and reputation alike.