Biometrics can be an alternative to conventional authentication technologies in mobiles

The number of global biometrics smartphone users is expected to reach 471.11 million in 2017 from 43.23 million in 2013. During this period, the user base would have transitioned from the early adopter phase to the early maturity phase, giving biometrics technology the opportunity to outstrip existing technologies such as two factor authentication (2FA). By 2019, biometrics will be a mature technology and would have naturally migrated to mobile devices.

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Rapid7 announces interoperability with HP ArcSight ESM

Rapid7 says that its innovative incident detection and response solution, Rapid7 UserInsight, is now interoperable with HP ArcSight ESM. The combination of these two advanced technologies enables security operations professionals to detect, investigate, and respond to security threats targeting a company’s users more quickly and effectively.

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The time for secure DNS?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is critical network infrastructure; without DNS the Internet can’t function. This universal need for DNS hasn’t escaped the notice of cybercriminals, and today DNS attacks are one of the fastest-growing threat vectors. Infoblox Inc. has announced enhancements to the Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection solution. These enhancements automatically protect against the widest range of DNS attacks of any product available for enterprise and service provider...

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Tech industry veteran Mike Bennett joins AlienVault Advisory Board

AlienVault says that technology industry veteran Mike Bennett will join the company’s Advisory Board as a senior industry advisor.

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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