Friday, 28 November 2025

Shopping or banking online depends on trust. Individuals interact with sites that they trust, and sites have to trust the person who is transacting with them.

Many online banking sites are turning to two-factor authentication to confirm the identity of the individual they are transacting with – typically an ‘out-of-band’ method of authentication using a token or SMS message to a mobile phones. Initially tokens were widely rolled out, but many banks faced a backlash from their consumers because tokens were too inconvenient to carry around, and they could be easily lost or damaged.

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Rolling Meadows, IL, USA: Cloud is increasingly being used in businesses worldwide, which means that security must now involve a hybrid approach to protect the apps and data hosted in the cloud. ISACA, a global association of 100,000 IT professionals, will provide security tactics for the hybrid cloud during its free virtual conference titled Secure the Hybrid Cloud: Protecting Users, APIs and Devices today, 12 December 2012.

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System integrator Khipu Networks deploys next-Generation Firewall to provide secure remote access for 41,000 students and staff

London, UK: Palo Alto Networks™, the network security company, has announced that Sheffield Hallam University has signed a five year contract to replace its existing perimeter security infrastructure and provide secure remote access to all 41,000 staff and students. Two Palo Alto Networks PA-5050 next-generation firewalls have been deployed at diverse data centres to provide full application usage visibility, threat control and intrusion prevention systems across the university’s entire network.

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  2. New password attack method means time to change tactics says Imperva
  3. Barracuda Networks named champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Next Generation Firewall Report
  4. Napatech achieves 100 Gbps throughput with Dell PowerEdge servers
  5. Oops, we lost a few terabytes! NBD!
  6. Global survey confirms motives behind 2012 IT budget spend and 2013 cloud trends
  7. The Sun puts sunshine on the faces of Armed Forces at the Millies
  8. Fire dynamics and human behaviour
  9. Top five IT trends for 2013
  10. Eminent scholar at City calls on public relations practitioners to seek out new opportunities in digital technology
  11. Think twice before you Bring Your Own Device
  12. Why dividing your data after a merger or acquisition won’t need the Sword of Solomon
  13. SIX deploys tufin secureapp to automate application connectivity management
  14. Armed Forces, their families and veterans to get exclusive discount cards
  15. Varonis urges enterprises to plug Dropbox security hole



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