August 2013 – Data Protection & Security

Asian eMarketing had the opportunity to interview Wahab Yusoff, Vice President of McAfee South Asia, regarding security aspects specific for Asia. With over 26 years of experience in the IT industry serving in various capacities and management roles, Wahab has operated mostly in the Asia Pacific region covering the ASEAN countries and China, with a […]

Privacy is the right to be left alone, or how would you describe it in a few words? It is the freedom to decide whether you want to communicate, what you want to communicate and with whom.

According to eMarketer’s latest forecast, mobile is making inroads in digital ad spending throughout the world and mobile internet ad spending is growing in each and every region. Overall the company predicts that a greater share of all digital dollars will go towards mobile each year, claiming that by 2017, 36.3% of digital ad spending

Gartner published just recently its new outlook “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies”, in which it states that the expectations of Big Data will shift in the near future to a more realistic view. In five to ten years, the firm believes, big data will then reach the “Plateau of Productivity” and let’s see if by

BYOD, mobility, multiple screens, the cloud, file-sharing … the endless possibilities of cyberspace in today’s technologically fragmented working environment is leaving CISOs with a ton of ever-changing challenges, and cybercriminals with too many opportunities.

Last week Trustwave and Transaction Network Services, Inc. (TNS) announced that they joined forces to offer an open and vendor agnostic point-to-point encryption service, designed to help merchants protect their customers’ payment card information.

VMware launched this week a range of new products, one of which is VMware NSX™, a Network Virtualization Platform that comes with a new network operational model that improves agility, advances data center economics and goes hand-in-hand with security measures.

In a recent test by the Tolly Group, an independent evaluation and certification provider for IT products and services, Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite (L.E.M.S.S.) outperformed traditional antivirus programs in both the system-level impact and amount of malware detected. L.E.M.S.S. required 29% fewer CPU resources than competitors and blocked on average 48% more zero-day

The Internet is an unsafe medium and actually a dangerous place. Due to the euphoria about all the possibilities of global data exchange, the abuse potential it implies was recognized but not really considered relevant for a long time. Systems have been built on the confidence that nothing would ever happen or abuses would not

“Privacy by Default” is a software design concept that intends to prohibit the collection, display, or sharing of any personal data without explicit consent from the customer. More detailed definitions often include a requirement that privacy settings should be turned on by default to limit the sharing of personal data. For example, a social networking