As organizations move to the continuous monitoring of their IT systems to assure they're secure, they rely much more on automated processes. But don't forget the role people play.
While organizations need to make investments in data protection and storage, it's crucial that they first get a real handle on classifying their data before allocating resources in the wrong places.
An analysis of many recent studies suggests that over 80 percent of applications contain simple vulnerabilities. Here are five tips that developers can leverage to secure their code.
As we close out one year and begin another, we look back at IT security lessons that emerged over the past 12 months. Here are five that should resonate in the coming year.
An incident affecting 4.9 million TRICARE enrollees was the largest U.S. healthcare breach reported in 2011. What were the other top healthcare breaches of the year?
When the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania suffered a major security breach a few years back, vulnerabilities in a Web application were to blame. CISO Erik Avakian explains how the state developed a process to correct flaws in application code.
Big data. Consumerization. Mobile growth. ISACA picks these as the top technology trends for IT and information security leaders to tackle in 2012. Robert Stroud offers tips to help manage the risks.
The American Health Information Management Association plans to work with various states next year to move toward more uniform privacy and security requirements that are in synch with federal requirements, says Lynne Thomas Gordon, AHIMA's new CEO.
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab say at least two other pieces of malware may have been developed on the same computing platform, perhaps by the same individuals.
It's not a question of if employees will bring their own mobile devices to work and connect to your systems. It's a matter of when. But the benefits of BYOD outweigh the risks, says Malcolm Harkins, CISO of Intel.
Breaches have an adverse impact on the fundamental operations of a business or government and without fully understanding that, executives and managers cannot smartly run their operations successfully.
Deven McGraw, co-chair of the Privacy and Security Tiger Team, would like to see regulators take action on the team's recommendations before it makes additional proposals.
When it comes to issuing regulations that affect the privacy and security of healthcare information, federal authorities have plenty on their to-do list as 2012 begins.
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