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Channelline -RSA unlocks its security conference
Despite Oracle's blatant attempt to steal RSA's thunder with its Sun deal, the world's largest security event has kicked off in San Francisco, honoring horrormeister Edgar Allan Poe. When the author wasn't scaring people, he was concealing anagrams and hidden messages in his poems and conducted his own cryptographic contest in 1839. This year's RSA Conference, the 18th edition, features an extensive roster of speakers, including Melissa Hathaway, Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, Lieutenant General Keith B.
Forbes - Steal This Database - Security vendors are selling million-dollar databases with a radical pitch: Go ahead and take 'em
Among the companies talking about their information security products at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco, one pitch stands out: "Go ahead and steal this database." Due to a rise in employee-based data breaches and increasing pressure to comply with a growing number of security-related rules and regulations, a new crop of vendors have emerged selling fake databases that look and function as if they're the real thing. And even though the data in these systems is fake, the money the vendors are making is very real, indeed.
Software Quality Magazine - Protecting data in software testing environments
When you think about application or software security, you usually think about the bad guys outside your company trying to get in. But just as often, if not more, the danger comes from within with employees accessing personal data. The issue of protecting data comes up when testing applications. Testers need production-like data to ensure applications work correctly, but you don’t want to give them live data. To help with that, companies are employing data masking technologies.