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A company usually takes cues from its leaders: What top executives emphasize will become the organization's imperatives, and what they ignore will fall by the wayside. It is the same [...]

Data on 70 million customers stolen, 76 million accounts affected, 44 lawsuits filed, 1.1 million customers exposed, 7 million business accounts compromised. That's just some of the alarming damage done [...]

Once considered the executive most likely to nip a plan in the bud, the chief information security officer (CISO) is quickly becoming the person most likely to help make things [...]

Joel Yonts, the CISO of a Fortune 500 automotive supply company, isn't pleased with many of his peers. Their complacency and timidity around security is widening the chasm between victory [...]

Last year, when James Beeson's son was at Texas Tech University, studying to become an engineer, he came across a calculus problem that had him stumped. So, the 20-year-old did [...]

For Chandra McMahon, being in charge of information security at the nation's largest military contractor means the process of incident response must happen well before data leaves the building. Lockheed, [...]

When tens of thousands of security professionals and exhibitors gather each year in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference, the mood typically is one of hope and promise. Keynotes, [...]

Transformative things can occur in short periods. As an example, it takes just 30 to 40 days for the monarch butterfly to complete its lifecycle of becoming the brightly colored [...]

When Preston Wood, Zions Bancorporation's CISO, talks about the growing cooperation between his security team and his company's IT department, he inevitably mentions risk. Specifically, he focuses on how the [...]

Not too long ago, the information security challenges facing the state of California were about as substantial as the state itself, especially since its government offices were far from being [...]

The year was 1992 and Howard Schmidt was a cop in Chandler, Ariz. Fellow officers knew him as the Police Department's resident geek, but as a field sergeant in the [...]

Bob Maley, chief information security officer for the state of Pennsylvania, was about two weeks on the job when he had to deal with his first data breach. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

Alex Tosheff does not consider himself a deeply religious man, but when it comes to sensitive data, he follows one critical commandment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'One of my IT [...]

With the help of a mere 29 employees, Dan Lohrmann is responsible for safeguarding 19 state agencies, which equates to some 55,000 employees and their desktops, as well as the [...]

For 25 years, The Weather Channel has been in the business of calculating risk. Each day, forecasters prognosticate which way a particular snowstorm will track, whether a drought-stricken region will [...]

He probably doesn't realize it, but if Bruce Bonsall, the chief information security officer of MassMutual Financial Group, ever gets tired of this whole technology thing, he may have a [...]

9780849379437 CISO leadership; effective principles for success. Ed. by Todd Fitzgerald and Micki Krause. Auerbach Publications 2008 276 pages $69.95 Hardcover The (ISC)2 Press series QA76.9 From the first day [...]

Hacking and eavesdropping into a technological or telephonic network surreptitiously is a crime in accordance with provisions set forth within 18 USC 1030 and 2511. Consider this: Would you expect [...]

When Larry Whiteside came to Spectrum Health seven months ago as the health care non-profit's first chief information security officer (CISO), he knew leaders within the organization had certain expectations [...]

Structure your crisis management team, he advises. And, he says that the company's CISO should drive breach management exercises to optimize the plan [...]

Gregory Wood has been named CISO at Washington Mutual. He will be responsible for the bank's security strategy and architecture. Wood previously served as CTO of BioPassword, provider of biometrics [...]

Each year hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on technology to ward off hackers, viruses, worms, trojan horses and other 'barbarians at the gate.' Yet as CISO for one [...]

Whether we change jobs out of boredom and are looking for new challenges, or the decision to depart is made for us, too often we don't take the time to [...]

Though a former CISO, I have been independently consulting for a year. But a colleague told me the title is like 'Mr. President.' You keep it even after you leave [...]

Shannon Culp says the CISO is an enterprise strategist, aligning efforts with business needs and risk requirements and providing a proactive security approach in conjunction with the strategic business and [...]

The mere mention of a risk assessment can instill myriad responses from the targets of the request. Resistance, fear and the age-old, 'We don't have the time or resources,' are [...]

Sometime after Y2K, the CIO position began to progress from tactical operations to more strategic company leadership. This evolution is still underway, and something similar appears to be happening to [...]

Information security is still in its formative years. But, as executive leaders' understanding of the need to integrate security strategies into their business plans matures, the IT security professional's role [...]

Most executives today have to rely on a combination of fragmented systems and spreadsheets to address critical issues. Having deployed a variety of point solutions, each operating separately, the organization [...]

Devon Bryan EVP/CISO, Federal Reserve System In the same month that Devon Bryan took over as executive vice president and CISO of the Federal Reserve System, cyberthieves stole roughly $101 [...]

While 2016 was busy giving us an unconventional, noisy presidential election and stealing away some of our most beloved music icons and cultural heroes, the chief information security officer (CISO) [...]

SecureData has hired ex-Sainsbury's security team lead, Mark Sprules, as chief information security officer (CISO) to head up its in-demand CISO-as-a-service practice and drive security awareness programmes in the [...]

For Cris Ewell, CISO at Seattle Children's Hospital--a non-profit pediatric hospital, academic medical center and research institute--risk management stands at the center of a mature information security program. 'We assess [...]

Mention the words 'EU General Data Protection Regulation' into the ear of a CISO or senior IT manager and you'll likely see a shot of fear in their eyes, for [...]

Latha Maripuri SVP and global CISO, News Corp. Last year, when SC honored Latha Maripuri as a Power Player, she had just moved to News Corp. to become senior vice [...]

Bruce Wignall, CISO of Teleperformance, operator of 300 call centers spanning some 50 countries, nicknames his largest torment 'Fraud 2.0.' Thanks to robust perimeter technologies and stringent legislation and industry [...]

In the past 20 years as a CSO/CISO and global consultant to hundreds of businesses, I've seen first hand the transformation of cyber risk and the impact on businesses in [...]

Andrew Rose became CISO and head of cyber at NATS, the UK's air traffic operator, after serving as security and risk analyst at Forrester [...]

The conference kicked off with a keynote on data breach responsibility, citing the Target case. Is the CEO deciding the security budget responsible for breach, or is it the CISO [...]

'In the rush to get to market with smart devices, companies are ignoring security issues - some are potentially very serious.' -BARRY COATESWORTH, RETAIL CISO AND CYBER SECURITY ADVISOR, ON [...]

Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has confirmed that Paul Swarbrick has joined as global chief information security officer. Swarbrick, a fellow at Cambridge University and previously CISO and head [...]

* Eddie Schwartz has joined Verizon Enterprise Solutions as the head of its security and cyber intelligence practice. Schwartz, who most recently served as CISO at RSA, the security division [...]

One of the quickest ways to improve your security posture is to demand a higher level of security from your vendors and providers, says FedEx CISO Denise [...]

Over the years, the role of the CISO has evolved, but as the threat landscape intensifies--targeting both large and small enterprises--this position is rapidly garnering a strategic voice at many [...]

We have entered an era that requires a new organization, a new security function and a new type of CISO to achieve an organization engineered for security, says [...]

Involving the CISO with business decisions will give the organization the needed visibility to ensure its business strategy has security, compliance and risk [...]

There are questions any CISO is bound to get asked: 'How do we stack up against our industry peers?' or 'How does our spending on security compare to our peers?' [...]

The magnetic stripe on a credit card is a major fraud source, says Dan Srebnick, the city of New York's CISO, so the 'chip-and-PIN' solution seems to be right on [...]

'Unless you have visibility into where your data is going, how do you manage risk?' - Dave Cullinane, CISO of eBay, on a panel at February's RSA Conference expressing concern [...]

WINNER Stephen Scharf, global CISO, Experian www.experian.com Stephen Scharf, the global chief information security officer for Experian, has more than a decade of experience building strong IT security teams. He [...]