DATABASE SECURITY
SECURITY: DB Networks Launches Real-Time Database Security Sensor. By integrating this sensor into their products, security OEMs provide their customers with more usage detail and metrics from data-tier cyber-threats. Read the rest
[EWEEK.COM]
MongoDB: Security, and How Not to Get Stung. Recently, Microsoft got roundly savaged for a database security leak. In the back and forth, MongoDB’s database security got caught in the crossfire. Find out why MongoDB was mistakenly blamed. Read more
[DZONE.COM]
DATA PROTECTION: Safeguarding Databases Against Insider Threats. While phishing, malware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and similar types of external threats rightfully receive significant attention from organizations, they only represent one aspect of the threat equation. Insider threats are the other piece of this puzzle and can be equally damaging. Read more
[SECURITYINTELLIGENCE.COM]
HOMELAND SECURITY: Visa Waiver Program Now Includes Daily Database Check. A change to how Customs and Border Protection vets applicants for the Visa Waiver Program is helping prevent a potential blind spot in the process, the agency’s chief told a House panel on March 1. Read more
[FCW.COM]
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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems March 2016 http://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-march-2016.
IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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