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Oracle Advances Vision for Enterprise Big Data More

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Hackers steal directly from banks in 'new era' of cyber crime More

Northrop Grumman to Feature Global Defence Capabilities More

IBM Adds Storage Software to Help Customers Manage Cloud More

US Defense Giant Raytheon: We Need To Divide The Web To Secure It More

Google is giving companies a break on security disclosures More

President Obama and the federal government are seeking to collaborate with the biggest US tech companies in an effort to bring more data security to the everyday consumer online More

Gemalto Releases Findings of 2014 Breach Level Index More

Fujitsu and BT Prepare Customers for the Future with First IPAM-as-a-Service Leveraging Fujitsu Cloud More

Gemalto acquires Trüb AG's secure document business further strengthening its world leadership in digital identity programs for governments More

Global traffic in mobile data will grow 10-fold in just 5 years, Cisco says More

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Twitter sees growth in government requests for user data More

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Accenture Federal Services to acquire Agilex, a provider of digital solutions for the U.S. federal government More

Identiv Announces U.S. Government Certification of uTrust TS Government Readers for Premises Access More

Defense of Pentagon networks "not where it should be"- nominee More

Oracle Utilities Analytics Solution Helps Utilities Manage Storm Data in Near Real Time More

HP Unveils Retail Technologies to Enhance Security, Customer Experience and Enable Operational Efficiencies More

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying Adblock Plus huge fees to get their ads unblocked More

Study from CA Technologies Reveals Why the Application Economy Demands a New Approach to Security More

As U.S. faces new threats, Pentagon seeks bigger defense budget More

Sony Cyber Attack Woes More

OTI Enters EMV Countertop Reader Market With Apple Pay-Enabled Solution More

L-3 Communications Wins 2 National Security Contracts More

Gemalto outlines the security benefits of move to EMV chip cards for US Financial Issuers More

Northrop Grumman Receives US Navy Contract to Begin Production of Additional Airborne Laser Mine Detection Systems More

Google is on the PwC Team Bidding for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization Program More

Munich Airport Selects Morpho's CTX 9800 EDS for Hold Baggage Screening More

France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror More

Apple In New Security Concessions To Beijing More

Hacking group Lizard Squad claims responsibility for Facebook outage More

The Morning Download: Microsoft Envisions Big Data 'Revolution' for Enterprise More

Northrop Grumman Awarded Cyber Security Contract by UK Government More

Equifax Personal Solutions Joins H&R Block to Address Growing Threat of Tax Identity Theft More

Pittsburgh Hospitals Reduce Emergency Department Visits using Patient Navigators More

BAE Systems was awarded a five-year contract by The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command to provide full life-cycle engineering and technical support. More

General Dynamics sees more demand for 'insider' cyber protection More

N.S.A. Breached North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack. More

France Pushes for Scrubbing Internet of Terrorism-Related Content More

After blocking Gmail, now China seems to be hacking Microsoft Outlook More

Oracle Voice Brings a Mobile, Speech-Enabled Virtual Assistant to the Oracle Sales Cloud in Release 9 on Smart Phones More

President Obama's Cybersecurity Priorites More

ImageWare Systems Joins as an Advanced Partner in the CA Technologies Tech Partner Program More

Identiv Supports President Obama's Plan to Increase Cybersecurity and Calls for U.S. Congress Mandate for All Organizations More

Alibaba Blocks Sales Of Unsafe Goods To U.S. Shoppers More

Why Google won't fix a security bug that's in almost a billion Android phones More

Pitney Bowes Unveils New Brand Strategy for the Future of Commerce More

Oracle Launches Modern and Secure Oracle Financial Services Cloud More

IBM Debuts New Mainframe in a $1 Billion Bet on Mobile More

Accenture is a Leader in U.S. Government Cloud Services. More

HP Unveils Retail Technologies to Enhance Security, Customer Experience and Enable Operational Efficiencies More

Elbit Systems Awarded Contracts for Advanced Electro-Optics Systems for Israeli Ministry of Defense. More

Uruguay selects Gemalto for eID secure document and issuance solution More

Authentidate's InscrybeMD Telehealth Solution Expanded to Several Florida Hospital Locations More

Digimarc and HP Report Significant Progress in Creating Print-to-Mobile Engagement Tools for Digital Presses More

Apple Has Patched A Hole In iCloud That Let Hackers Access Anyone's Account More

HP Debuts Virtual Reality Display Reducing the Barriers Between Digital and Physical World More

Google Was Asked To Delete 345 Million Links In 2014 Over Copyright Infringement More

Raise your home's IQ: smart gadgets take center stage at CES More

Stop Fraudsters in Their Tracks. NICE Launches Real-Time Solution to Thwart Fraud Attempts in the Contact Center More

Intel unveils app that opens sites with user's face More

Cue The Latest Cloud Vendor Announcing An Extended Maintenance Outage--Verizon Cloud Set For 2 Day Blackout More

CES 2015: Wearables, Drones, Virtual-Reality Goggles More

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Largest Military Medical Facility in DoD Selects NICE for Patient Security and Safety More

Why Most Companies Could Be Hacked Just as Easily as Sony More

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Raytheon awarded $2.4 bln contract to provide the State of Qatar with Defense System More

Atmel and Fingerprint Cards Enter Strategic Partnership for Biometric Fingerprint and Touchscreen Solutions More

I.D. Systems' Wireless Industrial Vehicle Management Technology to be Deployed by Ford Motor More

Kratos Award to Provide Unmanned Aerial Target Systems to US Air Force More

Morpho's Itemiser 4DX Receives ECAC Approval for Explosives Screening More

Blackberry helps Boeing with its hyper-secure 'Black' smartphone More

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IBM Opens First Cloud Data Center With SoftLayer in Japan More

Gartner's Magic Quadrant positions Gemalto as a leader in user authentication More

Sony hackers threaten theaters More

EMC launched EMC VNX-VSS100 for video surveillance market More

Facebook follows Google as Dutch watchdog probes privacy More

Magal is Awarded Contract for an Integrated Security Solution for the Port of Tarragona in Spain. More

Precise Biometrics: Tactivo™ order from US Department of Defense More

Oracle Service Cloud Achieves Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Provisional Authority to Operate More

Cubic Buys DTech to Expand Defense Unit More

The Problem With the Plan to Give Internet Access to the Whole World More

Emergent BioSolutions Expands Biodefense Franchise More

Tyco to Acquire Industrial Safety Technologies to Expand Gas And Flame Detection Capabilities More

EMC launched Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution More

Nordstrom fires employee, citing Facebook comments More

Radware's Global Application & Network Security Report Reveals Cyber Attacks Now Longer and More Continuous, Lasting One Month on Average More

Amazon, Microsoft Cloud Rivalry Grows In Enterprise More

Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data More

Accenture and Microsoft Launch New Hybrid Cloud Platform to Accelerate Enterprise-Wide Adoption More

Gemalto Launches Enhanced Visual and Tactile Security Features for Official Identity Documents More

How to protect yourself from ‘SpoofedMe,’ a social login attack More

Neogen acquires food safety business More

Oracle's New Cloud Development Center in Canada Reiterates Company's Commitment to Cloud Innovation More

Is a Threat on Social Media Really a Threat? More

Hacker Group Claims Credit For Taking Xbox Live Offline More

IBM reported online and mobile sales for Cyber Monday 2014; Online Sales From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday Increased 12.6%; Cyber Monday Online Sales Up 8.5%, Mobile Sales Up 27.6% More

MorphoTrak Celebrates 40 Years of Automated Fingerprint Identification More

Defense sector grows with the global economy More

Gemalto teams up with Chunghwa Telecom for its commercial launch of NFC services in Taiwan. More

I.D. Systems Receives Follow-on Order From Leading U.S. Airline Valued at $500,000. More

HP Takes Big Data Platform to the Cloud With HP Haven OnDemand More

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U.S. Said to Cite Islamic State Fight to Block UN Spying Text More

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Morpho Launches Non-Radioactive Trace Detector. More

Taser Shares Rise As Violence Erupts in Ferguson More

Tyco to Reinforce Technological and IoT Capabilities. More

L-3 Wins NGA Contract for Global Network Solutions More

Secure Dell Windows 8.1 Tablet Offers Mobile Computing up to Top Secret level. More

CACI awarded $62.5 mln contract to support counter narco-terrorism work. More

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U.S. aviation safety board says FAA can enforce rules on drones More

Oracle Advances Data Integration Portfolio With Major Enhancements to Oracle GoldenGate More

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Morpho Places First in NIST 2014 MINEX Fingerprint Benchmark More

SmartMetric Ties Your Fingerprint to Your Credit Card With Its In-Card More

U.S. military scrambles to keep its edge despite budget woes More

Contextual Security is Key to Enabling Business Mobility More

IBM is launching web-based email service More

General Electric CMO on Partnership With Quirky, Smart Home Technology More

CACI Awarded Contract to Provide Digital Mapping Services to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency More

ImageWare Systems Debuts Biometrics-as-a-Service Identity Authentication Solution Combined With FUJITSU Retail Solution Market Place. More

ImageWare Will Combine Technologies With TransUnion to Offer Biometric Authentication for Fraud Prevention More

Obama's Internet Rules Could Boost $1.3 Trillion Connected Web. More

SMARTRAC and Atmel Collaborate in Animal ID Applications More

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CA Technologies Powers Security, Usability and Trust for Enterprise Apps on Samsung KNOX More

Pitney Bowes Wins Department of Homeland Security Contract for Mail and Document Processing Solution More

British spy chief demands more access to Twitter, Facebook to thwart attacks More

Morpho Detection Awarded Lufthansa Airlines Contract for Itemiser DX Trace Detectors More

Palerra Emerges From Stealth, Changes Its Names And Jumps On The Security Bandwagon More

Gemalto deploys secure online banking solution in Indonesia More

Small Businesses Assess Their Apple Pay Options. More

Kohl's Sets Foundation for Future Growth With Oracle Retail More

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China-Linked Hacking Foiled by Private-Sector Sleuthing. More

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Mr. Will Geoghegan
Cloud Architect
TPS5 Cloud & ISV Partner Solutions
Fujitsu Americas
Fujitsu ISV Cloud Program

Fujitsu has a long and demonstrated history delivering world-class solutions that enable businesses to succeed in a highly-competitive market and ever-evolving technology landscape. The Fujitsu Cloud ISV Partner Program is one more way we’re delivering exceptional value to our customers, where we focus on helping companies transform and deliver their solutions in an “as-a-service” model from our cloud. Our aim is to work closely with leading solution providers to take full advantage of not only our platform and tools, but the underlying shift in how the market consumes technology solutions today. With the Fujitsu Cloud ISV Partner Program, we offer the chance for solution providers to step into a leadership role and maximize the benefits of the latest cloud technology, including not only the transformation and delivery of their solutions as SaaS, but also for support in areas like sales, marketing, professional services, and across innovative operating and revenue models that support a “zero cost” option for the partner.  More

Mr. Daniel Almenara
Vice President of Risk Management
Discover Financial Services
www.Discover.com

Information security risks for financial institutions have increased and are continuing to increase. Factors include the proliferation of new technologies, the use of the internet and telecommunications technologies to conduct financial transactions, and the increased sophistication and activities of activists, hackers and organized criminals. Security is a top priority for Discover and the FIDO Alliance. Both are working to make online interactions easier and more secure. At Discover, we monitor our customers’ accounts to prevent, detect, investigate and resolve fraud.  We also look to our work with the FIDO Alliance to help inform our authentication techniques and strategies. Our fraud prevention systems handle the authorization of Discover’s application information, verification of our customers’ identities, sales, processing of convenience and balance transfer checks and electronic transactions. Each and every card transaction is subject to screening, authorization and approval through a proprietary POS decision system. Discover uses a variety of techniques that help identify and halt fraudulent transactions, including adaptive models, rules-based decision-making logic, report analysis, data integrity checks and manual account reviews.  We manage accounts identified by the fraud detection system through technology that integrates fraud prevention and customer service. These strategies are subject to regular reviews and enhancements to enable us to respond quickly to changing conditions, as well as to protect our customers and our business from emerging fraud activity. More

Mr. Matt Barnette
President
AMAG Technology
www.amag.com

Many large customers have chosen AMAG including Bank of America, Intuit and Yale University.  Unfortunately, I can’t mention more due to the customer requesting anonymity.  I can say we’ve landed a Fortune 20 global software and service company, the largest energy company in the Southeast U.S., and the most well-known building in New York, for starters.   They see the advantages of using their own readers, cards, enclosures and infrastructure, as well as our unique database conversion utility that will save end users countless hours of reworking data. More

Mr. Kenichi (Kevin) Mori
Director
Security Systems Division
Sony Electronics

Security is critical in the sports venue market, especially considering how many people attend a given event.  Stadiums present several different needs and challenges, as they can be well lit during the day, allowing you to see detail easily across the stadium, but at night, the needs are different, so they need to be equipped with a range of cameras. Sony managed the A/V system installation at Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.  The project included hundreds of security cameras, installed throughout the stadium, practice facility, workout facility, parking lot and retail space to help safeguard players, fans, employees and vendors. Additionally, in both 2013 and 2014 Sony’s IP cameras were used to secure and provide situational awareness for runners and spectators at the world’s biggest marathon, the New York City Marathon.  Safety and security at large scale events, like a marathon, have become a top priority and we have a wide range of cameras to support these needs from dome, bullet, 360 degree and pan-tilt-zoom.  We supported the marathon with more than 50Sony security cameras along the final leg of the route and at the finish line. Finally, hundreds of state-of-the-art Sony security cameras were in place during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil this summer. Sony was chosen for a variety of reasons, including its international scope, track record of success, previous work in stadium settings, as well as the seamless integration into Minas Arena’s current CCTV infrastructure. More

Mr. Jim Reno
Distinguished Engineer
Chief Architect
CA Technologies

IoT unquestionably introduces new avenues for vulnerabilities.  As with many new technologies, IoT is moving fast in introducing new functionality, and security, which sadly is often an afterthought, lags behind.  We need a different mindset about devices.  A thermostat isn’t just a thermostat, it’s both a computer as well as possibly an active agent on a network. There are two sides to how we need to think about connected devices.  We first need to think of them as computers, on a par with any other computer system.  They can be attacked by many of the same pathways.  Once attacked, their primary function can be subverted.  For example, your home security system might be made to unlock your doors. The second side is to think of these devices as if they were users – that is, as active agents with identities that reach out on the network and do things.  In doing so, the same sorts of security questions around identity arise as for any other computer or user. More

Mr. Stu Hammer
Director, USPS Application Services Practice
HP Enterprise Services, U.S. Public Sector

Applications modernization has become imperative as the maintenance of “mature” applications has increased—consuming a disproportionate share of resources. HP aligns critical applications and infrastructure with your overall modernization program. We can help you address risk, optimize benefits and prioritize the business needs of your applications. There are some very significant benefits that we can get through modernization. We’ve seen between 25 and 45 percent savings in a reduction in operations cost, development cost and overall portfolio size. The approach HP uses has been successfully executed with hundreds of modernization projects - leveraging the Advise, Transform and Manage approach, which is backed up with a strong methodology, tools and the experience to execute and de-risk the approach. What’s critical in this process is to start with a complete assessment. It’s mandatory that you get the plan right and you know what your portfolio, know what your application environment is so you can execute successfully. We’ve seen clients fail by ineffectively planning this assessment phase. If you do nothing, your costs are going to continue to rise; executing a transformation plan is critical. More

Mr. Jason Hart
CEO
Identiv
www.Identiv.com

Identiv’s uTrust products enable business executives and security leaders to make the paradigm shift from patchworked identity systems to a unified, simple, efficient identity solution that delivers higher security and resistance to obsolescence, for both premises and information access. Our uTrust products are unique in the marketplace as they are designed, tested, and supported to work together. No matter where a customer starts, Identiv provides the confidence that they can build a complete system in which everything works together.  Identiv’s idOnDemand service is a turn-key cloud-based platform that makes establishing a trusted ecosystem across all lines of business, geographic locations, devices, and people simple and convenient. Central to the idOnDemand service is the certification authority that issues PKI certificates — the standard for secure communications through the internet, banks, and high-security cryptographic applications within and outside the U.S. government for the last 20 years. By combining PKI with purpose-built secure hardware such as a smart card, USB token, or other devices, like mobile, the certificate’s private key is not only protected in a high state of security, but is also portable across devices and services, enabling pervasive use of strong identity whenever (and wherever) required. More

Mr. Jim Miller
Chairman and CEO
ImageWare Systems, Inc.
www.iwsinc.com

Fujitsu, T-Systems, and IBM are three Blue-Chip companies we have gone to market with. These large, established partners offer the support, brand name and worldwide cloud platform needed to seamlessly distribute our products. At the beginning of April, Fujitsu announced the kick-off and worldwide expansion of our partnership model with a dedicated sales team covering the Americas. Since then, Fujitsu and ImageWare have closed a three-year agreement with a major international retailer who will use the IWS CloudID® products running in the Fujitsu cloud for face, finger, iris, and voice enrollment and matching.  Additionally, Fujitsu has set up proof of concept pilots with several of their major customers, with more expected in the near future, and has kicked off sales and marketing of the partnership products in Japan and China. Our partnership with T-Systems has led to a project with Deutsche Bahn, the German national railroad, who is slated to become the first customer receiving our joint product offering. We expect more to follow and anticipate this agreement will begin producing revenues in the fourth quarter. More

Mr. Thomas Hitzer
Head of Product House
SMARTRAC TECHNOLOGY GROUP
www.SMARTRAC-GROUP.COM

It’s safe to say that SMARTRAC has the broadest product portfolio in the RFID industry. Encompassing basic UHF tags for retail use, contactless card products for transportation, banking and access, animal and automotive transponders and complex, high-security products for eGovernment purposes, SMARTRAC can satisfy any demand. SMARTRAC excels in technological versatility, enabling tailored solutions such as dual-interface cards. No matter what frequency range they prefer, customers can choose between different antennas and manufacturing technologies. Furthermore, our production resources ensure security of supply for quantities of up to billions of pieces per year. More

Mr. John Diamant
Distinguished Technologist, CISSP, CSSLP
HP Secure Product Development & Application Security Strategist
HP Enterprise Services, U.S. Public Sector, Cybersecurity Solutions

Attackers are better funded and more motivated today than they were in decades past. It used to be that the primary motivation of attackers was fame or just to prove that they could successfully exploit a vulnerability. Today, a large percentage of attacks are motivated by identity theft, credit card theft, industrial espionage, cyber warfare or “hactivism”, and some are Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). In these cases, the motivation is significant financial, political or strategic gain and, as a result, the attackers are often well funded and more sophisticated. More

Mr. Aria Kozak
President and Chief Executive Officer
Elite Interactive Solutions, Inc.
www.EliteInteractiveSolutions.com

Many people in the industry know me as the Father of Remote Guarding. This is a term I was using twenty years ago. Today, this refers to providing security of any property, anywhere in the country by remote, command center based agents. . But Elite has taken this idea and expanded it beyond what anyone else, to my knowledge is doing. We do this through a proprietary combination of staffing, guided processes, client-facility based systems and our world-class Security Operations Command Center (our SOCC). The client’s system design is based on our detailed site review and forensic analysis. The resulting specifications include video cameras converted by military grade software into undercover digital guards that monitor and protect the property’s perimeter and further defined interiors.  Once this system is installed, we connect the site to the SOCC via the internet to support operation by highly trained Command Center agents. Armed with our command center’s state-of-the art systems and tools, Elites agents remotely secure any facility, anywhere in the United States.  More

Mr. Mark L. Kay
Chairman and CEO
StrikeForce Technologies, Inc.
www.strikeforcetech.com

Cyber Theft and data breaches are increasing at a faster pace and in the news almost every day with reports on Data Breaches (e.g. Target, Living Social, Federal Reserve, State of Maryland), Viruses stealing keystrokes (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail) and phishing attacks (fake websites - IRS, banks). Financial institutions are being sued and losing, and cybercrime statistics in our opinion, are projected to be into the trillions of dollars globally. In conjunction with this news, regulations focusing on protecting information are gathering strength with emphasis in the financial (FFIEC), healthcare (HIPPA), consumer (PCI) and now legal markets. If you then include various articles that state "...it is only a matter of time before your mobile device is hacked, if it isn't already," StrikeForce management contends that demand is increasing specifically for the types of features and capabilities that StrikeForce Technologies' patented and patent pending products deliver. All of this translates, in our estimation, into the potential for substantial sales and revenue growth in 2014 as the Company begins to exploit the mobile market and reaches its Vision of "Making the World a Safer Place." More