"With a company-issued device, you can issue a policy that says users have no rights of privacy over information on the device," says Javelin's Tom Wills. But with employee-owned devices? A whole new set of issues.
RSA Chief Executive Art Coviello challenged a widespread belief that cybersecurity awareness could curb cyberthreats: "There's no amount of consumer education to make them smart enough to resist attacks. They're just too sophisticated."
Security incidents reported over the past five years have placed the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive government information and information systems at risk, an annual GAO review reveals.
New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology defines an information security continuous monitoring strategy and shows how organizations can create an information security continuous monitoring program.
"The same American ingenuity that put a man on the moon also created the Internet," President Obama says. "We must now harness that spirit of innovation to ... secure technologies to build a safer, more prosperous future for all Americans."
Federal authorities have hired a contractor to design, develop and test ways to electronically obtain and record patients' consent to exchange their information.
From the earthquake in Japan to Hurricane Irene in the U.S., organizations worldwide have found their business continuity and disaster plans tested. But what lessons must we draw from these incidents?
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, many organizations still need to do a better job of monitoring their networks for threats, says security specialist Mac McMillan.
"Everyone plays a role in protecting card data," says PCI Council head Bob Russo, offering the group's first public response to criticism from Verizon's new report on the state of PCI compliance.
Elayne Starkey recently gave up her BlackBerry for an iPhone, and uses the Apple mobile device for personal and work doings, securely connecting to the computer system of her employer, the state of Delaware.
Major breaches involving lost or stolen storage media point to the need to take better security precautions when storing massive amounts of patient information.
When it comes to mobile banking, which do you believe is the greater security risk: the latest evolution of malware or continued bad behavior by the end user? Experts' answers may surprise you.
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