What IronKey recommend,

1. Create and verify a Twitter account.
2. Advertise it so people know about it!
3. Use it to promptly let customers know about scams, as well as other helpful security advice.

Dave Jevans, of IronKey said

“By using Twitter to publicise Internet security threats, banks can warn customers instantaneously, without sending them e-mails which could themselves be construed as malicious phishing attempts.”

You can read more over at finextra.com

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The solution from IronKey and Ceedo isolates the user’s workspace, taking all their data & applications from their work PC, and stores it on a portable IronKey device.

You can read more at marketwire.com

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President of Black Umbrella, Catherine Hooper says:

“We scan, store and digitize people’s critical documents, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, insurance documents. We put them on a special, secure thumb drive called an IronKey. “

Whilst only a small part of what people cope with in a disaster, you can have peace of mind knowing your IronKey will safely store your secure documents.

You can read the full interview with Catherine Hooper over at MSNbc.

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The theft of the confidential information (in this case, email addresses) can enable hackers to use phishing to trick the customer into revealing further confidential information.  In this case, this data could reveal where the customers, then the hacker could sucessfully direct the customer to a a website which looks like a legitimate banking site, but in truth, is not.

Practical steps you can take include checking new emails addresses against previous emails from the bank, warning family members (especially younger ones) about the dangers, and checking links in emails before you click on them.

View the full article here.

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What is the RSA Secured Partner Programme? A technology alliance of over 1,000 security partners, combining their knowledge and resources in order to develop and maintain the highest level of information security solutions.

Further detail on the Marketwire report is available here.

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“As the new decade opens, cybercrime is diverging down a different path as cyber attacks move beyond the financial services industry and malware makes a shift from targeting consumer desktops to employees in the enterprise,” states the 2011 Cybercrime Trends Report.

What does this mean exactly? The volume of mobile downloads is expected to rise in 2011 to 25 billion applications, creating more of an opportunity for mobile devices, used by employees of major organisations with access to huge amounts of confidential data, could mean an easy back door for malware to reach into corporate enterprises.

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Here are some handy hints to ensure that you aren’t the cause of your own IronKey self destructing:

• store the password in your personal account on my.ironkey.com
• securely backup your IronKey files on your PC, note though that if you lose your IronKey, you need to have another IronKey in order to access this data.

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Complete with screenshots, the Secure Active review provides a step by step look at how the Enterprise works.

View the article here.

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Endeavour Capital Chairman Neville Jordan is keen on the idea, as he believes that investors are looking for liquidity.

What would be the range of tech businesses available? Perhaps a cutoff at the $50 million mark, which is where private businesses tend to stall due to not enough capital, says the CEO of NZICT.

Timely for 2011, and a good step towards investment in NZ technology.  Full article available here.

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The review is of a Personal 1GB, the smallest available storage for this device, the IronKey Personal is also available with storage space up to 32GB.  It covers key areas including the Verisign Identity Protection capabilities, AES CBC-mode encryption for the hardware, use of the lost passwords authorisation feature (provided the device is activated online).

The secure backup drive is also discussed in detail, in which the data from the device is transferred to an encrypted archive located on a local computer or network share, copying all the the secure files and private data which is marked ‘hidden’ on Windows computers.

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