Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) is a new security approach currently standardized by the #cloud security alliance (#csa). The concept is basically offering an air-gapped network – in a virtual version, so that sensitive data might be secured and companies detaining such data would be better
#ransomware is an actual cyber – phenomenon . First brought to attention in 1989 (the AIDS Trojan or PC Cyborg), then mentioned somewhere back in 2005 ( Trojan.Gpcoder , then the Archiveus Trojan in 2006 that combined ransomware with RSA encryption), 2014 seems to have been its year of choice – the
Also known as keystroke or typing dynamics , keystroke profiling translates into associating an individual with his/hers way of interacting with an interface via a keyboard or another device of input. This identification method can serve for authentication (it belongs to the inherence factors
IDN homograph attacks belong to the #phishing strategies. Usually the bait emails include a spoofed (homograph) internationalized domain name (IDN). Creating such IDNs is based upon the identical appearance of different logical #characters. Also known as script #spoofing, the hacking technique uses
Cloud computing and cloud storage provide network access to a shared virtual space, in order to use computing resources or to store data. Although seen as a continuation of the 70’s RJE (Remote Job Entry) and of the 80’s VPN (Virtual Private Network), cloud computing in its current sense dates from
#tokenization translates as replacing sensitive data elements with their non-sensitive equivalents. The value of the resulting elements being non-exploitable, this #security procedure is supposed to reduce the risks. In order to retrace the steps back to the original sensitive data, the
