Spyware is a hot topic. It poses privacy, security, and productivity threats for enterprises via surreptitious installation and information gathering techniques. Spyware prevention at the gateway is critical to defend against these threats.

Forensic analysis has a crucial role to play in establishing effective security strategies.

Mobile device adoption is increasing in Asia, with a lot of room for growth for enterprise mobility in markets such as China and India. Failure to manage and secure these nomadic devices can be catastrophic.

The rising tide of security threats and ever more sophisticated and devious scams graphically illustrate the need for urgent action that embraces bold, fresh thinking and overhauls the current haphazard system of managing online identities to protect consumers.

A security manager's nightmare: There's been a data breach, and it's time to pick up the pieces. But to recover as quickly as possible, who needs to know what about the data breach, and when? Security management expert Mike Rothman gives advice.

An expert on cybercrime and online scams, Derek Manky talks about the threats from online organized crime and social networking sites and whether cooperation is improving between police, security researchers Internet service providers and domain registrars. Manky believes identity theft will continue to be a problem for all those involved trying to find a solution to the longstanding problem of phishing.

Science fiction it may be but there is a need for a way to have just one password that is unique to a person, cannot be replicated or tampered with.

When crafting a data security policy, take into account that disgruntled employees may leak data. Learn how to prevent employee data leakage, and how to handle data loss if it occurs.

Stree Naidu, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Tumbleweed Communications, says email is now the engine of business communication but many users and companies are not adequately protected.

As many as 33 high profile Twitter accounts were breached just days after a widespread phishing scam targeted users of the social network.