November 17th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Verizon launched a new service that will allow companies to spread information about hacking attempts. This will be done to other companies who find themselves in similar situations, take into account the experience. Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing (VERIS) allow users to post information in such a way that companies do not have to [...]
September 16th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua TippingPoint and Qualys two security companies have been involved in a study named “The Top Cyber Security Risks” revealed that more than half of all cyber attacks are targeting applications and websites. This report is based on information collected from March to August 2009 from customers that are using the Intrusion prevention system and network [...]
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Tags: Risk, SANS, Security, Vulnerability Research, Zero-day 
7 Comments » February 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The IT Policy Compliance Group (IT PCG) today announced the availability of its latest benchmark research report titled, “Managing Spend on Information Security and Audit to Improve Results.”Based on research conducted with more than 2,600 firms, the study reveals that 68 percent of firms are under-spending on information security relative to the financial risks and [...]
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