Moving into 2012, IT risk professionals will need to develop deep areas of subject-matter expertise. Here are some areas of increasing importance for your organization - and your career.
2011 has offered quite a number of tough lessons for security professionals. Here at (ISC)2, where security education is our focus, the close of another year raises the old teacher's question: "What have we learned, class?"
It seems to just be "understood" that if you're accepting favors you're doing so because the vendor expects to influence you and that you've compromised yourself if you start down that path. During the course of my career, I've seen only a couple of incidents of this type.
Although those in the field understand very well that the CFPB will have an enormous impact on privacy policy-making responsibilities, questions remain about what the agency will actually do.
As the use of mobile banking grows, banks and credit unions also should take steps to educate their customers and members about safe e-banking practices.
Although it's encouraging that security is now considered part of the software quality paradigm for customers' needs, the question remains: "Do we have the cyber skills needed for today's chaotic, application-driven world and its ever-increasing need for security?"
"We appear to be asking DHS to take on new cybersecurity roles and missions while it is establishing its basic core competencies," Melissa Hathaway says. "Is this reasonable? Do we want DHS to become a first party regulator?"
Security consultant Rebecca Herold says that although the proposed Accounting of Disclosures rule poses challenges, it would provide patients with useful information about who accesses their records.
Security expert Kate Borten contends the proposed accounting of disclosures rule's requirement to provide patients with a report listing those who have accessed their records is a good idea.
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