Large enterprises are engaging new digital business models as part of their growth strategy. Such innovation gives rise to the increase of the new "digital risk officer," says Gartner's Sid Deshpande.
President Obama has tapped veteran CIO Tony Scott as the top government IT official whose responsibilities include overseeing agencies' compliance with FISMA, the law that governs federal government IT security.
If 2014 was a harbinger of things to come, 2015 will be a banner year for IT security employment. Government statistics show that employment in one segment of the IT security workforce - information security analysts - soared by 42 percent in 2014.
CISOs are moving from being entrenched in technology issues to becoming more involved in top-level business matters, which requires new skills, says George McCulloch, who leads the new Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security.
To help protect health data as cyberthreats evolve, healthcare CIOs must roll out a "blended strategy" for security, says Charles Christian, new chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, an association of CIOs.
Driven by the spectre of external threats, attacks and growing business expectations, can CISOs focus on risk management and take a more integrated and systematic approach to defend against attacks?
As David Shearer steps in as the new executive director of (ISC)², he inherits a huge challenge: How does the consortium respond appropriately to the global information security staffing shortage?
What advice does the first CISO have for today's security leaders? Steve Katz speaks up on top security threats, how to defend against them and what it takes to lead an effective security team.
Have you ever considered starting your own information security consulting firm? Kate Borten, who made the switch from CISO to consultant, offers insights on making a successful transition.
To fill a gap in professional development and educational resources for healthcare information security leaders, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has launched a new offshoot group for healthcare CISOs.
Characterizing the state of employment among American information security practitioners, executive recruiter Joyce Brocaglia says, "We are experiencing negative unemployment in the field of information security."
Recognizing the security workforce shortage is one thing. Addressing it is quite another. What will it take to truly grow the workforce? Diana Burley of The George Washington University shares her vision.
Letting women make mistakes, as men are allowed to do, could help grow the female IT security workforce from its current level of less than 30 percent. That's a conclusion of a panel of IT security experts assembled by Information Security Media Group.
In the wake of its massive data breach, Target Corp. has hired as its first CISO an executive with information security leadership experience at two of the nation's largest corporations.
Conventional wisdom dictates that the high demand for IT security practitioner would cause salaries to rise, perhaps significantly. But a new study by SANS shows only a slight fattening of paychecks for many IT security professionals.
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