Relating risk to information security initiatives can help IT security managers persuade their bosses to fund these projects, sponsors of a new survey contend.
It's the everyday attacks, not the Flames, that are most likely to put an organization's IT infrastructure in jeopardy. Here is advice for how organizations can staff up and improve cybersecurity.
A successful effort to build a corporate culture that values privacy should be built on ideas that come from the rank-and-file staff in all departments, says Jan Hillier, a specialist in managing change.
Georgia Tech Research Institute is beta testing a malware intelligence system that research scientist Chris Smoak contends will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they confront.
Big data isn't about size, says Gartner's Neil MacDonald. It's much bigger: Big data is about volume, velocity, variety and complexity, and requires new approaches on how information is used to secure digital assets.
Developing a culture of responsibility could go a long way in helping business, not-for-profits and governments secure their organizations' information resources.
How can organizations mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks posed by hacktivist groups and organized crime? Verizon's Chris Porter offers recommendations.
Four recent breach incidents, including one affecting LinkedIn, have put the spotlight on the effectiveness of hashing. Why is hashing increasingly ineffective at protecting online passwords?
LinkedIn, the social network that's investigating the pilfering of nearly 6.5 million of its members' passwords, has neither a chief information officer nor chief information security officer.
The online dating website eHarmony has warned a "small fraction" of its users of a June 6 breach that likely exposed hashed passwords. Whether the incident is related to a LinkedIn breach has not been confirmed.
With an increase in state-sponsored hacking, Google says it will alert a select subset of its Gmail e-mail users when it believes their accounts may have been targeted.
An unnamed hacker claims to have cracked Mitt Romney's personal Hotmail account, by correctly answering the security question: "What is your favorite pet?"
IT security practitioners realize much value from the monthly cybersecurity index created a year ago by Mukul Pareek and Dan Geer. Why? They benefit from knowing how others see the evolving threat environment.
The time to select a breach resolution vendor is before you need one, stresses security specialist Robert Peterson. So what questions should organizations ask when choosing a vendor?
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