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Even as advanced persistent threats (APTs) and other attacks strike companies and government agencies at an unparalleled rate, information security professionals remain bullish about forging ahead with their data protection [...]

To evolve is to survive. It is a familiar scientific concept that can be encountered just as easily in business conversations over the water cooler as it can be in [...]

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 [...]

While there are some who think 2011 will prove just as challenging as last year for information security executives, others are a bit more optimistic. Numerous market indicators are hinting [...]

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 [...]

Reports of shuttered businesses, mammoth layoffs, home foreclosures and sagging consumer spending have become routine. Common enough, in fact, that a quick internet search can find throngs of organizations presenting [...]

For years, the bark of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been loud and clear: Health care entities will be punished for exposing patients' electronic protected health [...]

Stacey Halota has a lot of champions supporting her often complex and sometimes confounding cause. This might be because she travels hither and yon to get her security and privacy [...]

For most chief executives, anxieties about the global economic plunge have far outpaced concerns regarding the risks of data breaches. As overall confidence in the market seems to continue its [...]

Combat threats Priority Many CEOS will allocate more resources to security Protection Only some CEOS will hire new information security staff Budget issues Way it is Overall company budgets tight. [...]

Salary windfalls are awaiting few, if any, information security leaders this year. And while that fact may be far less than shocking, compensation wastelands aren't the norm either, despite an [...]

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 [...]

Nearly all information security pros are menaced with anxieties of being bamboozled by crafty cyber-criminals trawling their corporate networks for customers' private data. Such concerns are for good reason, of [...]

The heyday of massive salaries, extravagant raises and unrestrained bonuses that this industry experienced at the start of the 21st century has long since passed by the information security professional. [...]

Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tom Ridge says that no matter if discussions are about cyberterrorist attacks launched at federal agencies or cash-driven assaults targeted at [...]

A fickle economic climate, whose implacable unpredictability has shown leanings toward another downturn in recent weeks, is compelling many information security executives to once again fret over their budgets. For [...]

Just last month, a Colorado bank announced that some 5,000 of its customers could become victims of fraudsters as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. After customers [...]

Compliance issues and identity theft incidents may have dominated 2005, but other problems will unfold over coming months. Although compliance and ID theft will remain challenges for security professionals this [...]

Privacy: Some crave it, others don't. Yet in this world of social media over-sharing, there apparently are many everyday citizens who expect to save a little of their personal details [...]

As we begin another year in the information security industry, I've been mulling how far we've come... as well as how far we still have to go. We seem at [...]

This year has been one that many people have been looking forward to forgetting. It's one of those 12-month-long stretches that has been witness to a seemingly endless stream of [...]

Most everyone in the cybersecurity industry will tell you that there's a staggering shortage of talent entering the field. This is having major impacts on organizations' data-security capabilities and operations. [...]

I don't often read LinkedIn postings (I'm more of a Twitter chick), but lately I've been checking out a bit more what thoughts, advice or articles my connections are sharing [...]

We've all heard the refrain time and again: The information security industry is on fire. Reading any number of research reports on the topic lend support to the sentiment. For [...]

We've heard quite a few information security industry pundits openly discussing the lack of palpable improvements being made in the space. These failings cover a range of fronts, they say. [...]

Years ago, well before the acronym IoT fell from the lips of any technophile's lips, an industry practitioner told me a story that sounded like an urban legend. It went [...]

Having run the 'Guarding Against a Data Breach' survey since 2006, we at SC Magazine wanted to get a glimpse this time of what organizations' executives are doing in the [...]

About 24,000 Medicaid patients in Utah got word in early April they'd have to check their credit and bank statements for fraudulent activity much more diligently after hackers breached a [...]

Rising incidents of hacktivism, cyber espionage and other online attacks have most organizations reframing their risk management plans to include more than a few tweaks. However, many information security executives [...]

CEOs, government regulators and IT security pros sometimes may have disparate views on information security planning for financial institutions, but their ultimate end goal seems the same: Secure customer data. [...]

To find a generally accurate barometer to gauge the typical pace of government, just turn to personal experience. As an example, recall a recent jaunt to the Department of Motor [...]

Contributing Reporter Lee Sustar calls out in a piece this month the 'shock and yawn' response of consumers to the constant stream of data breaches. As mainstream users become more [...]

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If I'm remembering correctly, I first heard the term 'cyber Pearl Harbor' back in the early 2000s at an SC Forum held in Napa Valley. Richard Clarke--at that time, special [...]

There's been quite a bit of lip service paid to the ages-old concept of information sharing. Early this year, President Obama came out with an Executive Order to encourage private [...]

To trust is to put your faith in someone's honesty and integrity. The decision to trust typically is based on a general expectation that someone's ethics and principles, possibly along [...]

Art Coviello, CEO, RSA Q. Considering the number of data exposures we've seen, such as TJX, where are companies making the biggest mistakes in protecting customers' personal data? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

Banks usually tout putting money away for rainy days. They may encourage savvy budgeting so that times ahead can be comfortable. Insurance companies promote planning ahead, while lenders suggest ways [...]

A revival in our product reviews is stirring, which will result in more products/services tested in coming months, additional staff managing this well-read section of our magazine, and a reaffirmation [...]

In IT security, a lot can change in 15 years. Despite that growth, the requirements for IT security practitioners to stay informed, connect with colleagues and learn about new products [...]

Just one lone publicly disclosed identity theft incident can make even the largest enterprise beef up information security and privacy practices fast. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ChoicePoint Inc., which became the poster [...]

Putting aside the continuous debate on attribution of the Sony breach and, now, the discourse on possible regulatory and legislative outcomes quickly glomming onto the massive media attention this incident [...]

Questions about the recent PwC 'Global State of Information Security' have arisen regarding its findings that budgets for information security this year globally dropped by four percent. This decline happened [...]

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Like no other year before, 2013 illustrated just how essential cyber security is to global business endurance, economic durability and personal rights to privacy. The fractured story of the NSA/Snowden [...]

Still more revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) operations that intrude on U.S. citizens' privacy and seemingly make a mockery of Constitutional rights have emerged, leaving both the general public [...]

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Americans generally are split on whether the federal government's widespread phone and email surveillance should continue, according to recent polls. Some think that individuals fretting over privacy invasion are running [...]

At presstime, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old whistleblower who released classified documents that contained details about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance of U.S. citizens, presumably was considering his next move. [...]