Al Jazeera went undercover, approaching three companies on behalf of the governments of Iran and South Sudan – and found it all too easy to buy surveillance technology that could be used to spy on the countries’ citizens.
For many in the cybersecurity space, the world revolves around the attack vector. Many security vendors narrowly focus on their version of the prevent, defend and respond paradigm—focusing on their purported supremacy and on making their case to get a piece of the enterprise security budget pie.
At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, however, there were some hopeful signs that this narrow view and myopic perspective is evolving—at least for some.
“Don’t draw lines that separate different fields. Draw connections that bring them together,” implored RSA CTO Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan in the opening keynote as he called for business-driven security. “In my experience, today’s security professionals must also draw connections between security details and business objectives.”
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The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines A Georgia man linked to a University of Northern Iowa data breach in 2014 has been charged with tax fraud in federal court. Bernard Ogie Oretekor, 45, also known as Emmanuel Libs, was charged last week with theft of government property and aggravated … Suspect charged with theft in 2014 UNI data breach Suspect Charged in University of Northern Iowa Data Breach |