As the Bank of America website outage proved, "Assuming it's an attack or breach is now the default response," says ID theft expert Neal O'Farrell. So, how can organizations change that perception?
The growing IT security profession - which shows virtually no unemployment, according to government data - remains the domain of white and Asian men with a scarcity of women, African Americans and Latinos.
The Department of Homeland Security is undertaking nine private and three public cloud computing initiatives, establishing private cloud services to manage sensitive but unclassified information while using the public cloud for non-sensitive data.
Here's why it's important to carefully consider offering free credit monitoring, as well as breach prevention details, to the victims of major information breaches.
These arrests also highlight the U.S. vulnerability to crimes involving payment cards with magnetic stripes. "The U.S. is a criminal's playground right now," says John Buzzard of FICO Card Alert Service.
A children's health system is offering free credit monitoring to 1.6 million after the loss of backup tapes. It's the second major breach incident revealed in recent weeks involving lost or stolen backup tapes.
A breach incident affecting patients at Stanford Hospitals & Clinics offers yet another example of the risks involved when sharing data with business associates and their subcontractors.
"Just as the space race motivated education and career development in the 1960s, cybersecurity can be today's driving force," says Dickie George, information assurance technical director at NSA.
Although the Nationwide Health Information Exchange standards eventually will help pave the way for HIEs to share information, security risks related to the "weakest link in the chain" must be addressed, says consultant Patti Dodgen.
President Obama issues an executive order to establish a task force aimed to prevent potentially damaging and embarrassing exposure of government secrets, 10 months after a quarter-million secret diplomatic cables were leaked.
Alastair MacWillson says the lack of harmonization among state, national and international security laws and regulations has proved challenging for global organizations that want to work in the cloud.
As employers increasingly realize the importance of information risk management, security, audit and governance, they look to certifications to identify prospective employees.
The nation's new chief HIPAA enforcer views the protection of privacy as an important way to help ensure patients have access to care. And his passion about the issue means you can expect HIPAA enforcement efforts to intensify in the months ahead.
All 4.9 million TRICARE military health plan beneficiaries that were affected by a recent data breach will be notified by mail, but they won't be offered free credit monitoring services.
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