As cyber-attacks become more common, organizations must devise new ways to shorten response times and lessen the impact, says Paul Nguyen of CSG Invotas.
With the news that several large technology companies are going to assist in funding critical open source projects such as OpenSSL following the Heartbleed exploit, security experts weigh in on the move.
To help address the shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals, (ISC)² is offering colleges and universities a variety of assistance with bolstering cybersecurity education and preparing students for certification.
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks against Boston Children's Hospital's website have security experts debating whether such attacks could become far more common in the healthcare sector.
In the five years since the HITECH Act was signed into law, there have been some major successes and disappointments concerning health information security and privacy, says Joy Pritts of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
A hot topic among U.S. federal government security managers and other infosec pros is developing a process to vet mobile applications. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is offering a solution called AppVet.
As 10 regional health information exchanges in New York become interconnected into a statewide network, consistency in core privacy and security policies is proving essential, says David Whitlinger, executive director of the statewide initiative.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, Deloitte acquires crisis management firm Urgentis, while DataMotion partners with Dell to support users of SonicWALL.
Following a data breach, sensitive information, including credit card data, is often sold through the underground economy. Security experts discuss why it's so difficult to shut down online criminal forums.
The federal tally of major breaches continues to grow. But even relatively small breaches can result in tough federal sanctions, as settlements announced earlier this week show.
The best way to detect whether hackers have penetrated an IT system is to examine outbound traffic, says Eric Cole, the latest inductee to the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame.
There's a ton of event content to choose from at Infosecurity Europe 2014, which runs from April 29 through May 1, and here are some of the sessions that caught one editor's eye.
The FBI recently issued two alerts to the healthcare sector warning of increased risk of cyber-intrusions against systems and medical devices, based on recent industry research reports.
A George Mason University research fellow says the cybersecurity framework, issued earlier this year by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
Federal regulators have slapped hefty HIPAA enforcement fines against two covered entities that had relatively small breaches involving stolen unencrypted laptop computers.
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