To that picture, you have to add the entire context of cyber security, or Network and Information Security in the Digital Agenda for Europe.
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has been working on a framework that sees data protection as a basic human right, a protection that is offered to consumers within a social context.
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"I believe that as we increase our dependency on Internet of Things, and because it is not a fully stable technology per se, the probability of having problems increases, " says Evangeis Ouzounis, the head of the secure infrastructure and services unit at the European Network and Information Security Agency.
The NYPD also maintains a "Ring of Steel, " a network of 4, 000 sophisticated security cameras that feed information into a central monitoring system to detect questionable or unlawful activity.
Within information technology, the one bright spot has been network security and Perry says the companies to buy are Symantec (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people ) and Safenet (nasdaq: SFNT - news - people ), which has deals with the Department of Defense and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
On the other hand, these applications can present security risks, such as an unintended transfer of information and data on the smartphone via the network.
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Unfortunately, people operate on human time scales and are simply incapable of discovering all of the information about a network that changes from hour to hour and turning that data into changes in the configuration of security devices.
By combining public information from social networks and facial-recognition technology, the researchers used a webcam on a college campus to identify people by name, and then by using information from their social-network profiles also predict sensitive personal data, such as hobbies and Social Security numbers.
The good news for RSA Information Security is that no company is immune to the advanced cyber threats brought on by this age of network connectively.
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Unless you can verify that a hot spot has effective security measures in place, it may be best to avoid sending or receiving sensitive information over that network.
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