There’s a lot more talk about potential threats to mobile security that any actual activity. But as mobile devices increasingly become used to initiate transactions, there’s no doubt that mobile computing devices present a tempting target for cyber criminals.

Although there is a lot of focus these days on data breaches that result from the activities of cyber-criminals and other digital miscreants, in truth the majority of data breaches are caused by simple negligence.

There’s a lot debate these days concerning the merits of cloud computing.

While most IT organizations are pretty focused on securing data within a particular data center, once data begins to move to another data center the assumption is that the security of that data becomes someone else’s problem.

As a general rule, that’s true. But the time during which data is in flight over a wide area network (WAN) connection can easily fall between the security cracks.

There are not nearly as many IT organizations using encryption as there should be. But among the organizations that do, an interesting problem is emerging: Various database systems have different encryption schemas that all come with their own management framework.