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International Cooperation Required To Tackle Global Cybercrime

One of the best things about the Internet is the way it removes geographic barriers and provides access to a global market place and information resource. However these same qualities also enable the...

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Efficiently Securing User Communities with IT Appliances

There are many business challenges that drive the need to secure network access by teleworkers and travelling laptop users: CIOs worry about security breaches eroding customer trust, with subsequent...

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Understanding the Hacker

Many of you, like me, will be aware of the online conference organisation TED (Technology, Education and Design). The conferences are first class, easily digestible and recently featured a journalist –...

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Michigan Cyber Summit – Unisys Takes Part in National Cyber Security...

I just came back from the Michigan Cyber Summit that was hosted by Governor Rick Snyder and Michigan CIO David Behen. This event was the launch site for the National Cyber Security Awareness Month with...

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Consumerization of IT: Moving Beyond Security Concerns for IT Organizations,...

Ok, there are too many articles about how IT organizations are stymied by the proliferation of mobile devices within their environment and their need to secure enterprise data. This is known as the...

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Consumerization of IT: Moving Beyond Security Concerns for IT Organizations,...

Understanding application modernization scenarios – if your enterprise has been around for more than a few years, inevitably you find that some of the applications reside on older mainframes or servers...

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Consumerization of IT: Moving Beyond Security Concerns for IT Organizations,...

Understand the security requirements – security considerations are part of every aspect of secure mobility.  From the devices you decide to support, the applications and access you provide, the...

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How Are Asia Pacific Enterprises Responding To The Consumerization Of IT?

The top 10 observations about Enterprise Mobility from Consumerization of IT research briefings. Over the past few months, Unisys has been briefing Asia Pacific organizations on the findings of its...

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Jailbreaking iPhones – Freedom or Folly?

“There’s an app for that.”  How did we cope before we had that for an answer to so many of life’s questions downloadable into a cool gadget that fits in the palm of our hand?  Everything from maps of...

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Managing Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

Organizations are experiencing increased demand from employees to offer enterprise support for a wide array of evolving endpoint devices, including multi-platform smartphones and tablets. These diverse...

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There’s No Room for Complacency in Port Security

Sea ports that have a reputation for safe, secure and efficient ports can’t afford to be complacent about balancing efficiency and security. Australia and New Zealand are classic examples.  In the...

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The Value of the Invisible

On September 16th I arrived at Unisys Corporate Headquarters in Blue Bell, PA to record a podcast on Unisys Secure Private Cloud.  Once I finished the recording I wrote a paper, Secure Private Cloud –...

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Cybercriminals Are Here To Stay

Continuous cyber-attacks represent a growing concern in our business and personal lives. Countering the increasing number of assaults and their ever-growing complexity is no easy call. In fact I...

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Unisys Security Index’s Global Inquiry Focuses on Consumer Reaction to Data...

Steve Vinsik, VP Global Security Solutions, shares with us his view on Unisys Security Index findings on consumers’ reaction to data security breaches. Steve helps us understand consumers’ reaction...

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Surprised to See Americans So Willing to Provide Personal Biometric Data for...

Well, @ Unisys, we are not as surprised by the results of Unisys Security Index when we asked American consumers about providing biometric information. Mark Cohn, CTO for Unisys Federal Systems shares...

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EMEA 2011: What IT Convergence Means to Generation Y

In 1999, we were 6 billion people worldwide, and I had just finished contributing to a massive and complex IT project where the most powerful servers, costing 3 m€ in today’s currency, were barely at...

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Can Law Enforcement Keep Up With Technology?

The past 12 months have highlighted the increasing gap between the ability of law enforcement to keep up with  advances in technology in the UK. For instance just this year we’ve seen; court...

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Do We Have the Right Skills to Help Close The Gap Between the Law Profession...

The Unisys Security Index, announced on Wednesday 8th November 2011, tracks consumer’s concerns about national, personal, financial and online security every six months. In the latest report it was...

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Why Understanding Demographics Will Help Create a United Digital Britain

Unisys announced the latest findings from its Security Index, a bi-annual research study that tracks consumer’s concerns about national, personal and online security. The latest report revealed...

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The Seismic Shift in Security: Part 2 – Information Push, Information Pull

As I said in “The Seismic Shift in Security: Part 1 – The Increasing Value of Information”, we often fail to notice how our dependencies are moving from the real world to the digitally networked world....

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Asia Pacific Customers Won’t Accept Data Breaches as a Cost of Doing Business

The best business is repeat business – keeping the same customers for a long period of time. However increased competition through deregulation of many industry sectors such as banking,...

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The Seismic Shift in Security: Part 3 – Information Security and the...

The rapid transformation in how and where society uses information has one overarching outcome: it ends the era of compartmentalized, bolt-on information security. Today we largely compartmentalize...

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When Cyber Attacks Become Physical

Recent reports of a cyber attack on a US water utility in Illinois again highlight the intrinsic link between cyber security, national infrastructure and what this means for national security. The idea...

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Year in the Rear View Mirror: Part I

As the blog editor, I spent some time reviewing and facilitating bloggers’ ideas. In doing so, I have the privilege of working with some brilliant minds at Unisys who spend most of their time...

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Year in the Rear View Mirror: Part III

Finally, I want to highlight Steve Vinsik and his post on Cyber Crime: How to Prevent an Attack and Mitigate Damage. Again, if you remember June time frame, and were following business news, there was...

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Social Collaboration Brings Crucial Value to the Enterprise

Today business teams are more global and mobile than ever, working on more complex products and services with less time to deliver.  They need to be equipped with better tools to be productive and...

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Mobile Christmas Shopping – Balancing Risk and Convenience

The ease of online shopping anytime of the day combined with the popularity of smartphones and tablets like the iPad means that this year many consumers will do their Christmas and holiday shopping...

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2012 IT Predictions: Disruptive IT Trends Move Into the Fabric of...

The Unisys IT predictions for 2012 center around six Disruptive IT Trends that we introduced last year.  A year ago we predicted that with cost-consciousness the “new normal,” organizations would tap...

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Border Security for the Olympics

With less than 100 days before the Olympics it is worrying to hear concerns around the security and passenger traffic delays at the UK’s border with thunderous rumbles from passengers, former senior...

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It’s All About Strong Authentication

In any industry, real-time access to information is critical. In the healthcare industry, lives hang in the balance. Financial services companies need to extend credit to the right people at the right...

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It’s a Bird . . . It’s a Plane . . . It’s Mobileman!

Unisys recently published the results of our third-annual survey on Consumerization of IT, conducted for us by Forrester Consulting. As you know, consumerization of IT focuses on the business impact of...

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Mobile Security for the Enterprise

The growing use of smartphones at work and the need to implement BYOD means enterprise mobility is now a crucial business requirement. Forrester predicts that by 2016, 350 million employees will use...

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POS Security Hacks: How to Keep the Bad Guys Out, Sensitive Data In

In 2013 corporations saw an unprecedented amount of cyber-attacks from hackers and fraudsters. Hackers were able to successfully shut down websites, tamper with and steal enterprise intellectual...

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Microsoft End-of-Support for Windows XP Date Approaching: Can’t Migrate then...

Microsoft End-of-Support for Windows XP is April 8, 2014. Despite recommendations for migration to Windows 7/8, estimates show that XP still powers one out of every four corporate PCs.   Budget...

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Unisys Showcasing How to Power, Secure, and Manage Mission-Critical...

We are excited to be heading to the 2014 Interop conference in Las Vegas, which showcases the most powerful IT innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. The Unisys team will be kicking...

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Securing Critical Infrastructure Needs Technology with Attitude

Critical infrastructure organizations across the globe rely on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems (ICS) to keep operations going 100 percent of the time...

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The Top Four Considerations for a Successful BYOD Program

The era of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) continues to raise several concerns for corporate IT, not the least of which is whether to collect payment from users for services that the corporation provides...

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Context-based Personas for Security and User-experience

When implementing a mobility strategy, several aspects need to be considered. Most important is that the mobility efforts should support business objectives and should have measurable success factors....

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Survey Points to Security Concerns over SCADA/Industrial Control Systems

Over the last decade, the various financial crises have pushed companies in every industry to improve efficiency and cut costs wherever they can. The recent ability to attach just about anything to the...

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5 Key Security Considerations for SMBs in 2015

In the U.S., October marks National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and as the New Year fast approaches, small and medium-sized companies are either starting or in the middle of planning their...

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The Benefits of Access Governance – The New Baseline for Identity Management

The need to identify users, control what they can access, and audit their activities is fundamental to information security. According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and...

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4 Tips for Organizations to Combat Cybercrime

Earlier this year, newspapers reported that for the first time, the U.S. had filed criminal charges against five Chinese military officers. This was the first time Washington singled out a foreign...

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Data Center Security – Thinking Beyond Perimeter-based Defenses

In today’s information-centric world, the heart of any enterprise undoubtedly lies in its data center. With virtualization now a mainstream technology, workloads are increasingly being migrated to and...

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Time to FREAK Out?

Another day, another media-hyped vulnerability supposedly threatening the viability of the Internet.  This latest one originated with attempts by the US government to control (read “weaken”) the level...

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No Time to Think Differently – It’s Time to Move: Speed is Everything When It...

“The Chinese have penetrated every major corporation of any consequence in the United States and taken information,” said former NSA director Mike McConnell in a speech he delivered on March 13,...

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Will Regulators Disrupt Mobility’s Disruptions?

Most of the time, the mobility landscape looks like a free-wheeling, hard-charging, out-with-the-old-rules world. Not just disruptive, but disruptive at warp speed. But not so fast, you might say....

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Advance Your Approach to Ensure Security Against Advanced Threats

5 Things You’re Doing…But Are You Doing Them Well? Security is not just a discussion of business and technology anymore. Major enterprise security and data breach incidents in recent years, and...

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An Upbeat Mood: Impressions of the 2015 RSA Conference

The annual RSA Security Conference was held last week at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco.  The conference was bigger than ever, with 32,000 total attendees (many come for a day just to see...

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Look, We Don’t Catch the Smart Ones

Every year at the RSA Conference, the opening set of keynotes includes a “Cryptographers Panel.”  This is understandable since RSA has its roots in the invention of public key encryption, but quite...

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Continuous Compliance…Moving Beyond a Checklist Mentality

Often, people incorrectly view governance and compliance as a static checklist set of activities, that when completed, signify that an organization has successfully guaranteed its present and future...

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