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"Anti-Virus, Firewalls and IDS are no longer enough", warns security expert

95% of persistent attacks only spotted by accident even though evidence was within logs for weeks and in some cases months

Ahead of Sans London 2011, Europe’s largest IT security training event, a top security expert and trainer is warning that administrators still don’t have the skills to spot a well executed persistent hack. “We work with a growing number of organisations that simply don't realise that they have been the victim of a well orchestrated and persistent attack,” comments Steve Armstrong, former head of the UK Royal Air Force penetration testing and widely considered one of the UK’s most experienced IT security professionals.

: DAWN NICHOLLS; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 10 August 2011 16:21

Q1 Labs, the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) commit to developing advanced security intelligence tecnology

Leading security intelligence provider joins firms including BAE Systems, Thales and Altera on Pan-European Industrial Board

^{Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced that it has become a member and official partner of the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This further demonstrates Q1 Labs’ commitment to European security intelligence markets and builds on the company’s existing European efforts out of its distribution, R&D, sales and support centre, also located in Belfast.}

: DAWN NICHOLLS; InfoSecurity; Posted On Tuesday, 09 August 2011 17:27

BSIA calls for more freedom to trade in Europe

Vigilance can report that the Security Equipment Manufacturers (SEMS) Section of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has issued a firm position statement on third party testing, calling for the European Union to implement a fair, unified testing and certification regime to facilitate free trade for security manufacturers throughout EU member countries.

: EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Tuesday, 09 August 2011 17:14

Data governance critical to preventing data loss associated with today's wave of 'insider' security breaches

With many of the country’s most trusted and widely-known organizations recently struck by hacker attacks resulting in leaks of sensitive data, Varonis Systems (www.varonis.com) has stressed the importance of data governance for managing and securing structured and unstructured data, which account for 80 percent of organizational data (source: Gartner).