When he was 15 years old, Michael Calce, known in hacker circles as “Mafiaboy”, engineered a denial of service attack that took down CNN, Yahoo, E-Trade, Dell, Amazon and eBay. He started his hacking activities at an even younger age when he would phish for AOL accounts to get free Internet access.
Calce has made a statement that the move to cloud computing is going to create a virtual playground for hackers and cyber criminals. He also warns that the insider threat of malicious users inside companies is being massively understated, and that companies are at serious risk.
IronKey is a member of the Cloud Computing Security Alliance. We believe that the guidance being provided by the CSA can help cloud computing companies, and enterprises that are selecting a cloud service, to create much more secure systems.
IronKey operates a cloud security service to allow administrators to remotely manage their fleets of IronKey personal security devices and secure USB flash drives over the Internet. Our service allows admins to remotely provision devices, control security policies on remote IronKey devices, provide software and anti-malware updates to remote devices, and perform critical functions such as password reset, device re-provisioning and usage tracking. We even allow enterprise administrators to remotely kill devices if they are reported lost or stolen.
We employ a layered security approach that includes strong two factor authentication to the service (using your IronKey device of course!), data encryption, hardware signing modules, segmented networks, intrusion prevention and detection systems, layers of firewalls, etc.
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