The Growing Threat of Medical Identity Theft

by Dovell Bonnett | Oct 27, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Identity Theft

I have been following a very disturbing trend for a couple of months now, and it is that of Medical Identity Theft. When we think of identity theft, we typically worry about credit cards or store credit being taken out in our name. Somebody attempting to purchase a...

Microsoft®’s Forefront Review

by Dovell Bonnett | Oct 21, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention

Microsoft®’s Forefront  Needs More Than Identity Management for Cyber Attack Prevention Microsoft ‘s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 provides IT with the tools needed for  identity and access management through a SharePoint-based policy...

Access-as-a-Service (AaaS) by Access Smart

by Dovell Bonnett | Oct 12, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Online Security, Password Authentication

To businesses of all sizes the cloud is the rage. Companies are moving to the cloud for cost savings, convenience for their road warriors, data backup, new applications and a host of other business reasons. What one rarely hears is that companies are moving to the...

What To Do When Your Company Network is Hacked

by Dovell Bonnett | Oct 7, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention

I have written many articles and blogs warning about the cost to a company from a security breach. Ben Worthen, a staff reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, wrote a great article “What to Do if You’ve Been Hacked” on...

Employees Are Not Evil – They Are Just Drawn That Way

by Dovell Bonnett | Oct 1, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Online Security

Paraphrasing a line from Jessica Rabbit from the movie Roger Rabbit seems the appropriate comment from Geoffrey A. Fowler’s article “What’s  a Company’s Biggest Security Risk? You.” Hence the headline: Employees Are Not Evil –...

Rumors of Password Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

by Dovell Bonnett | Sep 12, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Online Security, Password Authentication

McAfee recently revealed that 72 different organizations around the world have been victims of cyber-spying. With attacks likely to increase, it is important to note that strengthening your access controls ensures that you have a higher level of security for all those...