That's because SSL vulnerabilities and the Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks they enable are wreaking havoc on data security.
In fact, negligence by employees and contractors has been a more common cause of corporate data breaches in the United States than malicious attacks, according to a study of 2011 done by the Ponemon Institute, a research center on data security, and financed by Symantec, a data security company.
While the IDS helps detect attacks on data traffic, SecAODV incorporates security features of non-repudiation and authentication, without relying on the availability of a Certificate Authority (CA) or a Key Distribution Center (KDC).
Though Yahoo by itself would have had a tough time adequately protecting user information from a state-sponsored hacking attack, the company's credibility on consumer data security remains shaky.
Barry Shteiman, of data security company Imperva, said the nature of attacks on online gaming websites had changed.
Such an attack could happen again, compromising Snapchat's reputation for data security, the filing notes.
Companies must build a culture of security, or risk a disastrous attack on data and infrastructure.
In data security, your cost and ability to defend yourself scale depending on your attack surface.
The company is making a bundle of product announcements on Thursday that address the security challenges of mobile, cloud and Big Data computing, and I.B.M. is applying its own data analysis expertise to attack the data-security problem.
The winning project, $Echo, which was awarded £4,000, used the same data to visualise attacks on people's security and web presence through a series of colours and echoes.
