The White House Office of Management and Budget, in its yearly Federal Information Security Management Act report to Congress, gives departments and agencies mixed grades in their efforts to secure federal IT for fiscal year 2011.
Cybersecurity Act sponsors intensify their campaign to enact the legislation that would change the way the government protects critical federal and private-sector IT networks as a group of key Republican senators offers an alternative bill.
In the PATCO Construction fraud case, attorney David Navetta says the court failed to address two key concerns: reasonable security and good faith. What's next in PATCO's ongoing legal battle?
From mobile malware to the Anonymous hacktivist attacks, how can organizations tackle the changing threat landscape? In an RSA Conference preview, Joe Rogalski of First Niagara Bank shares ideas.
For years, security experts have advised users to wipe their hard drives before discarding them. About 100 owners of one brand of tablets may have wished they did.
What steps can smaller organizations and their vendors take to ensure security and regulatory compliance? They must transcend what researcher Wendy Nather calls the 'Security Poverty Line.' See how.
President Obama uttered the term "cyber" only once in his 7,200-word State of the Union address Tuesday night, but that fleeting moment about an hour into the speech could prove significant.
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to redouble your organization's breach prevention efforts. After all, no one wants to see their organization's name on the federal breach list.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital has developed a breach response checklist that others should consider as they create their breach resolution game plans.
2011 has offered quite a number of tough lessons for security professionals. Here at (ISC)2, where security education is our focus, the close of another year raises the old teacher's question: "What have we learned, class?"
IEEE sees 2012 as a disruptive year of widespread mobile-device intrusions as a growing number of smartphones - now 20 percent of the market - make them an attractive target for hackers.
Medtronic's announcement that it's launching an "in-depth risk/benefit analysis" following an "ethical hack" of one of its insulin pumps is good news. We hope that Medtronic and all other medical device manufacturers launch long-overdue, aggressive efforts to improve medical device safeguards.
The Health Information Trust Alliance is seeking nominations for its annual InfoSec Awards, which recognize groundbreaking work in healthcare information security.
A hacker anywhere in the world could easily track the whereabouts and file-sharing habits of a Skype user and use the information for purposes of stalking, blackmail or fraud.
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