Reacting to reports that Utah Valley University researchers have analysed the many hundreds of thousands of Stratfor user account credentials which were hacked by Anonymous late last year due to weak passwords, SecurEnvoy says this proves the fact that the human element in security is now the weakest link.
Enterprise Password Worst Practices
Nearly two years ago, Imperva published a report on 32 million breached passwords entitled “http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdfConsumer Password Worst http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdfPractices.” Since then, successive breaches have highlighted consumers’ inability to make sufficient password choices.
With rumours of a double-dip recession abounding and budgets remaining tight for 2012, how is the BSIA ensuring that trade association membership remains a worthwhile spend for businesses in the security sector?
James Kelly, CEO BSIA
For many companies, social media has become a vital tool that supports many business processes. Social media interactions, both internally and externally, can be used to build the brand, improve the company’s reputation and customer loyalty, hire talented staff, mobilise the collective knowledge of employees, shorten the development cycle, and improve the responsiveness of technical support processes. HR managers look for job candidates on LinkedIn and XING, R&D teams publish their development guides on corporate Wikis, and technical support personnel use instant messengers to discuss in real-time critical issues with the product. Even CRM, by its very nature is based on a set of social communications profiled to the specific needs of the business.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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