Internet Identity

The power of the cloud and big data sharing can be overwhelming. Many companies have a hard time understanding how to utilize it without investing massive amounts of human hours into manually parsing through piles of information. However, when usi

We are excited to announce that IID is now a member of Georgetown’s Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC). This new center will work with IID and other affiliated members, such as Symantec and Check Point Software Technologies

It almost sounds violent: in the last few weeks, criminals have launched a “brute force attack” in order to steal the passwords of website administrators who use WordPress as their content management system. No, the bad guys aren’t beating up

It is neither hyperbole, nor sensationalism. In March 2013, the Internet experienced what has now been widely reported as the largest attack in its history when cybercriminals bombarded CloudFlare and its network bandwidth providers with a massive Do

One of the great things about the South Sound Technology Conference is that you can roll up your sleeves and dive right into technology focused discussions with other like-minded industry experts. The presentations are not sanitized by political co

It’s alarming enough that U.S. banks’ web-based operations have been the target of highly sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since September 2012. But what makes this development really scary is the fact that these incursi

First, before we get into this discussion, let it be known I am a cloud architect, and proud of that fact. I love designing cloud systems and using cloud technologies like virtualization, shared and private clouds, hybrids, elasticity and APIs, ana

For all the sophisticated cyberthreats out there currently targeting web-based businesses, it’s amazing how many potential attacks can be avoided simply by adopting basic network security practices. Unfortunately, Internet hygiene among onli

Part of IID's DNS Dojo Series In our previous blog post, we enumerated the various Domain Name System threats facing websites with .edu top-level domains. In this latest posting, we will shift our attention back to .coms, while focusing on a s

Preventing Cyber Crime & Business Identity Theft Forum - Wednesday, March 20th at Lakewood, WA City Hall Council Chambers From industry to federal and state leaders, next week many Internet security luminaries will descend on our