Katie Hanna

1 week ago | techtarget.com | Katie Hanna |Brien Posey |Colin Steele

COPE (corporate-owned, personally enabled) is a type of mobile device management (MDM) model that allows employees to use corporate-owned mobile devices for specific types of tasks that are not directly related to work. When a company uses a COPE model, it is responsible for purchasing, provisioning and maintaining the notebook computers, tablets and smartphones employees use to do their jobs.

1 month ago | techtarget.com | Katie Hanna

A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process attempts to write more data to a fixed-length block of memory, or buffer, than the buffer is allocated to hold. Buffers contain a defined amount of data; any extra data will overwrite data values in memory addresses adjacent to the destination buffer. That sort of overflow can be avoided if the program includes sufficient bounds checking to flag or discard data when too much is sent to a memory buffer.

1 month ago | techtarget.com | Katie Hanna

Cyberstalking is a crime in which someone harasses or stalks a victim using electronic or digital means, such as social media, email, instant messaging (IM), or messages posted to a discussion group or forum. Cyberstalkers take advantage of the anonymity afforded by the internet to stalk or harass their victims, sometimes without being caught, punished or even detected. The terms cyberstalking and cyberbullying are often used interchangeably.

2 months ago | techtarget.com | Paul Kirvan |Katie Hanna

The term open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Unlike proprietary software, open source software is computer software that is developed as a public, open collaboration and made freely available to the public. The following are several frequently asked questions (FAQs) about open source software. Who uses open source software?

2 months ago | techtarget.com | Mary Shacklett |Katie Hanna |John Moore

A cyberthreat hunter, also called a cybersecurity threat analyst, proactively identifies security incidents that might go undetected using automated security tools, such as malware detectors and firewalls. Cyberthreat hunting involves monitoring network traffic, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, endpoints, data sets and insider threats -- often in real time -- to uncover potential security incidents that might otherwise go undetected.