Georgia Tech Research Institute is beta testing a malware intelligence system that research scientist Chris Smoak contends will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they confront.
Schmidt, speaking at the Gartner Security Summit, reflected on his tenure as a special assistant to the president, including his role promoting an international cybersecurity strategy, online trusted identities initiative and IT security education.
When Joseph Bognanno of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services examines 2012's financial fraud trends, all he sees is more - more of everything, from schemes to new guidance. How can banks stay ahead?
New privacy and security guidance for federally funded health information exchanges provides a good framework, but must be phased in over time, says Andrew VanZee, director of an Indiana HIE initiative.
Relating risk to information security initiatives can help IT security managers persuade their bosses to fund these projects, sponsors of a new survey contend.
It's the everyday attacks, not the Flames, that are most likely to put an organization's IT infrastructure in jeopardy. Here is advice for how organizations can staff up and improve cybersecurity.
Big data isn't about size, says Gartner's Neil MacDonald. It's much bigger: Big data is about volume, velocity, variety and complexity, and requires new approaches on how information is used to secure digital assets.
Developing a culture of responsibility could go a long way in helping business, not-for-profits and governments secure their organizations' information resources.
How can organizations mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks posed by hacktivist groups and organized crime? Verizon's Chris Porter offers recommendations.
Four recent breach incidents, including one affecting LinkedIn, have put the spotlight on the effectiveness of hashing. Why is hashing increasingly ineffective at protecting online passwords?
FTC settlement agreements in two cases involving data exposed on peer-to-peer networks offer a reminder of the risks involved in using the networks. Social Security numbers, healthcare information and other personal details were exposed.
LinkedIn, the social network that's investigating the pilfering of nearly 6.5 million of its members' passwords, has neither a chief information officer nor chief information security officer.
If you'd like to avoid being subjected to a federally mandated biennial data security audit for the next 20 years, you might want to make sure no one in your organization is using peer-to-peer networks.
In many ways, conducting a risk assessment for mobile devices is similar to other IT risk assessments. But there are notable differences, says consultant Jeff Brandt.
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